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!