Chocolate Angel Pie
Like so many of my favorite recipes, this one comes from an old book of clippings collected by mother and grandmother. I don’t recall either of them ever making this pie, but they both loved anything with meringue and nuts (like the Luby’s Butternut Brownie Pie) so it makes sense they’d save this one. It’s...Read More »
Liza Powers on Instagram: "The best pie you've probably never heard of is... Stupid Pie. 🤣 🤍 The full recipe is up on my website, link in bio! I've never had this pie outside of a Louisiana family holiday dinner in my entire life. My mom says it's a dupe of a Piccadilly Cafeteria recipe, IYKYK. 😅 I went FULL food anthropologist on this recipe and I couldn't find a single recipe or reference for "Stupid Pie" but I found a few recipes for "Angel Pecan Pie", "Mock Pecan Pie", and "Ritz Pie" that had the same ingredients and instructions. 🤷🏻♀️ Apparently Piccadilly called this "Pecan Delight" and it is just that! I found one single reference to the origin of this pie and it was that in the 1950's or 1960's it was created for a church potluck to celebrate the arrival of a new pastor and