Fast Fourier Fromage & Fraises

When contemplating my pi day pie I decided it needed to meet two requirements. A good pi day pie must first and foremost be delicious (what's the point of pie if it isn't fabulous?). Second, it needs to embody pi in as many ways possible. I decided that the best way to meet these two goals was to make a cheese pie, because a cheese pie is both delicious and fairly solid, so I could cut shapes out of my pie without worry of a runny, cave-in mess. Next, to make it fabulously pi-ish, it needed circles representing the first few digits of pi-- 3 chocolate circles, a strawberry decimal point, 1 chocolate circle, 4 strawberry circles, etc. And then, what's better than a pi pie? Two pi! A friend suggested incorporating sine waves, so here we have a sine wave with a period of two pi!

Step 1 Ingredients

Crust:
2 cups graham cracker crumbs
½ cup melted butter
¼ c sugar

Filling:
½ c sugar
1 ½ c cottage cheese
4 oz cream cheese
¼ c vanilla yogurt
2 T flour
1 t vanilla extract
1/8th t salt
2 eggs
2 egg yolks
2 egg whites
2 T sugar

Strawberry Sauce:
2 c sliced strawberries
3 T sugar
½ t cornstarch

Chocolate Ganache
1/3c milk
1 ¼ cup chocolate chips

Marshmallow sine
3T marshmallow fluff
food coloring
corn syrup to thin

Supplies:
Printed template
Pastry bags
A fondue fork (or similar thin, pointy instrument)
Toothpicks
Pastry tips (I used a wilton bismark and a writing tip, #1)

Comments

[jen7714]

Looks great! I guess cheesecake is more of a "cheese pie"...Nice ible.

[ellenfurlong]

Thanks!! I was pleasantly surprised with the way it turned out! :)