Halloween Pie

At Halloween, pie takes a backseat to candy.  But unless your costume is scary and hideous and you're pretending to be someone who doesn't like pie, it's time to bring pie to the forefront where it belongs! 

Everything goes spooky for Halloween - punch is served in a black cauldron, tables are covered in spiderwebs, candy bowls are shaped like Zombie hands... the list goes on.  Halloween is really a very dark and gruesome holiday.  So you'll need some creepy pie. 

The easiest way to make any pie fit for an All's Hollow's Event is to use food coloring creatively and add a spooky-sounding adjective to the name.  Coconut Cream Pie with a couple drops of red coloring becomes Bloody Coconut Cream Pie.  Or you could use orange and black coloring, just make sure the colors don't run together.

You can also use cake frosting, colored sugar crystals, or even peanut butter to draw designs in the top of your pie.

If you want to kick it up and really impress, try this crowd-pleaser (The recipe is just a chocolate custard pie made to look like a graveyard.  You can really use this graveyard topper idea on any base pie you want):

Spooky Graveyard Pie 

1 Chocolate Crust
1 can (12 oz.) evaporated milk
1 3/4 cups chocolate chips
2 egg yolks
2 tbsp cornstarch
1 1/2 cups chocolate cookie crumbs
8 Milano cookies
Decorator writing gels
Assorted Halloween gummies candy

Whisk together the evaporated milk, egg yolks and cornstarch in medium saucepan. Heat over medium-low heat, stirring constantly, until the mixture is very hot and thickens slightly (do not boil).
Remove from heat, then stir in the chocolate chips until they're completely melted and the mixture is smooth.
Pour the mixture into the crust.
Sprinkle with the cookie crumbs. Press crumbs down gently.
Refrigerate for 3 hours or until set.
Decorate the cookies as tombstones with writing gels as desired; let set. Insert tombstones around edge of pie.
With a spoon, mound the cookie crumbs to form "fresh graves." Decorate your graveyard with candy to make the pie spooky.