Hello friends and PieLovers! Welcome to Pieathalon Ten. And welcome to my Not Quite A Hershey Pie! For new readers, Pieathalon is the time of year where food bloggers all over the world, lead by the lovely Yinzerella swap recipes for all sorts of weird and wonderful pies. This year, I was sent a recipe for Hershey Pie by Kari from The Nostalgic Cook. And I’m going to start right off by saying that this was a delight. It was so easy to cook, it looked absolutely gorgeous and tasted like a little piece of heaven.
Having said that, it was not without some problems. Notably, this was a very American pie. And as the name suggests, this pie called for Hershey Bars. Six Almond Hershey bars to be exact. So what, I hear half the world (The American half) exclaim. Well….Hershey’s is not the chocolate of choice in Australia. It’s not impossible to get Hershey bars but you either have to buy them off the net or go to a shop that sells American candy. And both of these places charge like wounded bulls. Luckily, Cadbury which is our chocolate of choice does a Milk Chocolate and Roast Almond Block which I was able to sub in for the Hershey’s. And if Hershey’s are hard to find….Graham Crackers? Impossible. I have never even seen these for sale here. So another substitution. Marie Biscuits for Graham Crackers this time.
I won’t even begin to enter the mathematical saga of if 6 Almond Hershey bars weigh x ounces and 2 Cadbury Family Size Blocks of Roast Almond weigh y grams, how much chocolate do I need for the pie? Or the trauma of how big is a large marshmallow?
Somehow, I managed to convert a SIX ingredient recipe into an international, mathematical, imperial to metrical brain scramble.
Having said that. The Cadbury / Hershey Pie was….wait for it…
It was so good.
First, it looked gorgeous!!! As I was mixing in the marshmallows, I noticed that they created a marble effect which I thought was quite beautiful. I kept some of those streaks in the finished pie. I also sprinkled some of the leftover crumb crust on top. Then the taste!!! It was like a little bit of heaven. Very rich, very sweet but utterly delicious!!! Personally, I found a tiny bit of salt sprinkled over the top helped to cut through the sweetness. The Fussiest Eater in the World liked it as is.
Hershey Pie – The Recipe
The Pieathletes
Here is a list of the other Pieathletes. Why not pop on over and see their creations? I wonder who got my Villa Pie?
(For early readers, I’ll update the links once each recipe is posted)
S.S.made a Microwave Peach Pie
Dr Bobb made Anthony Hopkins’ Four Star Shepherd’s Pie
Poppy Crocker made a Coconut Cream Pie
Surly made a Hot Fudge Pie
Kari, who sent me the delightful Hersjey Pie made an Aspic Salad Pie. Oh dear….
Camilla made a Ballymaloe Chicken Pie
Cathy made a Delicious Apple Pie
Jenny made Anthony Hopkins Beef and Hash Brown Pie. Goodness, Mr Hopkins is getting about this Pieathalon!
Thanks to Kari for the wonderful recipe and to the wonderful Yinzerella for organising! Have a great week…I’m off to eat some more of that yummy, yummy, pie!
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I figured that finding Hershey bars would be difficult, but that acceptable substitutions would be easily found.
I also thought that graham crackers were universal. I thought wrong.
It looks great!!!!
When I saw the recipe, I wondered if the Hershey’s Bar of today was the same size as in the 1960s, but I didn’t consider that it might go to a place that didn’t have them at all. So sorry about all the calculations required to make it, but I’m so glad it turned out well!
When you said a six-ingredient pie turned into a mathematical scramble, I was like “Been there.” And it looks so good with the extra swirls in it.
That does look really good! You can’t go wrong with chocolate, almonds, and a crumb crust as far as I’m concerned.
That looks wonderful! What do Marie biscuits taste like? I looked them up and it seems to be vanilla? Are they very sweet? Thanks!
Hi Brandyce, they are a very plain biscuit with a mild vanilla flavour. They are the go-to biscuits for crumb crusts in Australia. xx
Haha – I did laugh at your man with a mathematical headache gif. I am regularly using all my powers of maths knowledge (almost nil) to try and work out similar conundrums so BRAVO to you! Your pie looks lush.
Despite using a pic of Anthony Hopkins in my Pieathalon post I have to issue a disclaimer. The Beef and Hash Brown Pie I made had no connection to AH. The link was purely that I send in an Anthony Hopkins recipe. And I am off to see what Bobb made of it right now!