While people spend more time at home during the pandemic, baking new things has been something many have given a try.
Throughout social media there are posts of people expanding their culinary abilities through experimenting with food while at home.
Like my cousin, Amanda Birdwhistell, of Louisville. She not only started making pies, she started getting pretty creative with it.
The first one she made was pre-COVID. It was a birthday request for a blueberry pie. She added a demogorgon from “Stranger Things” on top because the pie’s recipient was a fan.
She didn’t do another one until she and her sons were staying healthy at home during the pandemic. Then, she decided to create a pie for almost every occasion.
Throughout the pandemic she’s made designs that look like a mask, the symbol for the Chinese new year, an American flag and the state of Kentucky. Her most recent creative lattice work looks like an octopus sitting on top of the pie.
She admitted she’s not typically known as a baker.
“I cook out of necessity,” Birdwhistell said, adding she can follow a recipe.
After making her demogorgon pie, Birdwhistell said she realized how fun it is to create different art on the crust.
“Once the pandemic hit I was asked for more and more and I had plenty of time of my hands so I was happy to continue,” she said.
The fun was in the creativity in coming up with new designs, Birdwhistell said.
“While I am not a great baker, I love art projects so this just became an outlet,’ she said.
Ironically, her two sons are fans of fruit pies.
“I did make a chocolate one they liked but they usually prefer cake and cheesecake,” she said. “They love the designs though and I also do cakes with designs for them.“
The octopus pie is probably her favorite and the most unique of all the pies she’s baked.
“I still love my first the most probably for nostalgia,” she said.
Birdwhistell uses a recipe she found online and adjusts it each time she makes a pie. She doesn’t make her own crust. Instead she buys already made crust to roll out which gives her more time to create the artwork on top.
When asked if she would continue her creative baking after the pandemic is over, she said yes.
I look forward to seeing what she comes up with next.
April 11, 2021 at 12:01PM
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