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Lamp of approval. 🕹|Blueberry peach pie with blueberry tiles inspired by a rad floor lamp from @atelier_areti to prove that inspiration is everywhere. I’m often asked which artists insfire me but the bright answer is that it’s really everyday objects that spark the best pie-deas. An neon and anything is flare game. There are designs in this feed modeled after bamboo purses, lawn chairs, bathroom walls, and math puzzles. So glow forth and color outside the shines this weekend. The pie is the limit.

Date: August 17, 2018

Melon-dollar question. 🍉| What’s for dinner? You slog through blush hour traffic and by the time you make it home, you’re practically on the pink of death. So hangry. You peach into the fridge and...what in carnation?! It’s empty. 😭 But come feast or salmon, the solution is always the same. No need to weigh the rose or the cons. No need to pink twice. All for one and one coral. PIZZA. 🍕| Savory herbed goat cheese tart with watermelon radish J’s.

Date: August 16, 2018

Wheel Housepies of Seattle. 💅🏽| Baked mixed berry pinwheel from ages ago—#fruitsplosion, removed lip fillers, and all. 💋

Date: August 9, 2018

Two plums up. 👍🏽| WHOA. HOLD UP. 200K followers?! 🤯 Every day this ride gets wilder. As someone who is naturally pretty shy and private, it’s mind-boggling to consider that such a multitude is keeping tabs on the things emerging from my humble home kitchen. It can be unnerving to have such a platform at times, but I’m so grateful for the positivity and enthusiasm you have bestowed on what began as an accidental hobby. I’m thrilled to have you along on the journey. Thank you for being here. | Apricot, pluot, plum swirl tart courtesy of a really juicy @collinsfamilyorchards CSA. 🍑

Date: August 6, 2018

When they go dough, we go pie. 🥧| Last night, I posted to my story about an incident with a stranger who hurled racist insults at me as they drove by. I can’t say I’m that surprised, particularly in this climate, and I know there are people/communities that experience this (and worse) every day of their lives. We could stand to share some light, so tell me what act of kindness you’re putting out in the world today. (There’s a link in my ACRS story highlight if you need an idea. 👆🏽) Let’s be good to each other. 💛

Date: July 31, 2018

Baublestone. 💎| So you’ve lustered up the wherewithal to invite *them* over. Although your place is rough, you’ve polished it until it sparkles. You set the stone with candle light and long-gem roses, and have prepared a pasta dinner so you can get your carbon. You stay jewel as a cucumber, and the night goes off without a hitch. The sink is full of dishes but you don’t carat all. You’re floating on cloud shine. ☁️✨

Date: July 27, 2018

Weave it all to chance. 🤞🏽| I’m going camping this weekend and it’s bound to be in tents. ⛺️ I didn’t grow up doing a lot of nature-y things beyond laying on the beach, but since moving to Washington, opting outside has become s’more than a feeling. Looking forward to sitting around the campfire and consuming my weight in toasted marshmallows. 🔥 Fingers crossed we don’t get eaten by a bear. That would really bruin it. 🐻

Date: July 25, 2018

Silent but medley. 💨| Kicking off another year around the sun with fart jokes. I know, I know. My scents of humor is foul. Getting older but not mature-r... But all’s well, ends smell. This too shall pass (gas). 🙇🏻‍♀️| Cherry berry rainbow covering a multitude of sins (but really, it’s just leftover blueberry mint curd). 🌈

Date: July 20, 2018

Shapegoat. 🐐I Blame it on the a-a-a-a-alcohol even though we know jam well it’s just juice. Happy Hump Day. 🐪I Strawberry raspberry rhubarb jam pie. Thanks for the berry haul, @travistrautt!

Date: July 18, 2018

Pits and pieces. 🍑| An apricot cream tart variation of one I made last summer. It’s the best of both swirleds. 🌎🌀

Date: July 16, 2018

Go for spoke. ☸️| Back in April, I spent 40 mysterious, exhausting hours in NYC...and I can finally share why. 🥁 Catch me this fall on two episodes of Martha Bakes, season 10 with the one and only @marthastewart!! 😳 GULP. (And yes, still hyperventilating.) Take a peep at my stories for details! | Summer cherry pie with blueberry and beet dough scraps. ♻️🗑

Date: July 12, 2018

Scale the seven seas. ⚓️| Holy mackerel. I had the opportunaty to film with @king5newdaynw yesterday and it was trout of this world. For months, I tried to get them to ask salmon else (I like to play it koi...but also, I’m actually pretty shy), but it turned out to be reel fin. Thank you for all the enthusiastic messages letting minnow you watched! I cod not be more grateful to be part of this community. You’re the basst. 🐠🐟🐡| Ombré tart with Flavor Royale plums!

Date: July 10, 2018

Cloud and clear. ☁️| The great unknown is vast, but not all who yonder are lost. The pie is the limit, twenty-four/heaven, so let’s do ourselves cloud. 🌌| Blueberry peach pie with butterfly pea flower dough. Thanks for the true blue tip, @saltyseattle! 💙

Date: July 5, 2018

Tiles and tribulations. 🏵| In a world of solar opposites, it’s no mean heat to put it all on the shine. On good rays and bad, through the rise and the lows, fight for your brights and never lose your sense of sunder. ☀️| Blueberry mint curd tart with mango mosaic.

Date: July 3, 2018

Sun in a million. ☀️| Okay, I love birthdays. Last year, I had a human-sized dinosaur piñata that survived THREE rounds of 12 adults having at it. 🦕 The boomerang videos we captured are what I turn to on bad days. Still on the hunt for how we’ll top that this year. Since you guys have proven to be a treasure trove of heartfelt, wacky, and hysterical commentary when pressed, I want to hear about the quirkiest, most unexpectedly delightful ways you’ve celebrated something. Lemme steal your ideas. | Miso caramel apple hand-cut sundial pie from the archives. 🍎

Date: June 28, 2018

Lost and round. ⚪️I You know those days that throw you a curveball and knock you for a loop? It feels like you’re both running in circles and spinning out of orbit? It’s enough to strike sphere into tarts everywhere. But while it may wheel overwhelming now, it’s ball going to be okay. The pun’ll come out doughmorrow. ☀️I Coconut black sesame panna cotta tart with kiwi and dragonfruit. 🐲

Date: June 26, 2018

Date: June 21, 2018

Floral of the story. 🌼I Departed from my usual modern pieometry to design this rhubarb cherry pie with edible flowers for a styled shoot earlier this week. So many amazing collaborators...be sure to peep the list below! I 🚨Don’t forget: tickets for my @bowhillblueberriesworkshop go on sale on my website (link in profile) tomorrow, 6/22 at 9am PST! Only 8 spots available! Blue don’t want to be left out! 🔵

Date: June 18, 2018

Cherry godmother. 🍒| Rolled out of red this morning, exhausted from my head to my rose. Then coffee appeared before my berry eyes, and a blood of energy flowed through me like a currant. Monday funday and I’m feeling wine. Caffeine...a brick of the trade. ☕️| Shortbread tart with sweet cream and a cherry ombré. A twist on one of my cherry first @lokokitchen posts. ♥️

Date: June 14, 2018

Stripe for the picking. 👌🏽| Hey, blue there! Guess what? I’m hosting the ultimate pie workshop @bowhillblueberriesthis summer on August 4. We’ll start the afternoon with a farm tour, a bloob tasting, and a U-pick blueberry session! Then we’ll make some berry-colored crust and cram our pies full of freshly picked fruit. The day wraps with wine and snacks in the field because of course. It’s going to be the piefect summer Saturday. ✨ Tickets go on sale on my website on June 22 at 9am PST. Mark your calendars...ready, set, dough! 🗓| Bloobarb (blueberry rhubarb, if you will) pie with naturally colored blueberry and beet-colored doughs. This baby’s still in my freezer, so keep your eyes peeled for the future baked shot. 😉

Date: June 12, 2018

A berry tale come true. ✨| GEEZ. You guys sold out the @feastportland @tillamook Pie Goals class I’m teaching with @hummingbirdhigh in minutes! Insane!! I’m peachless. 😳 There are still spots available in my August tart workshop with @theworks.seattle, and I’ll be announcing two more major events in the next few weeks, so stay tuned. THANKS for being so stoked about pie as a medium of art. What a time to be alive. 😭| Peach curd tart with strawberry and kiwi right triangles. 🤓📐

Date: June 7, 2018

Crust a move.🕺🏻| I’m your dance incrustor today and here to get doughn. Let me see you pun-two step and I’ll peach you how to Doughgie. All in a day’s twerk. 🍑

Date: June 5, 2018

Block and awe. 💥| Tuesday kiwing the game with a curds-eye-view of this papaya lime curd number. Taking grains and breaking tarts. 👊🏽

Date: May 31, 2018

Tile and error. 🔲| When I was in kindergarten, I wanted to be a paleontologist because I was obsessed with dinosaurs. 🦖 Then in first grade, I abruptly changed my aspirations to “cinnamon roll baker.” 😂 In my dream life now, I’d live in Porto, Portugal as a ceramic tile painter (though really, I just want to be retired 😜). What’s your fantasy occupation? | This pineapple mango pie is inspired by surface designer (tiled away under rad professions) @renata_rubim and @julie_jonesuk’s parquet pastry. 🍍

Date: May 29, 2018

Fashionfruit. 💃🏻| Piñatas, picking mangoes (both green and ripe!), and pitchers of jugo de maracuyá are some of my brightest childhood memories from summers spent with my grandparents in Honduras. Tropical fruits always evoke a sense of nostalgia for those sweet sun-drenched spells. ✨ Just recently in Peru did I discover so many more varieties of passionfruit. If only I could have brought them all home with me! | @nigellalawson’s passionfruit curd, gluten-free crust with @bobsredmill almond flour, and papaya matchsticks. [Click over to @piesgoneawryto see what happened to this one...🙇🏻‍♀️]

Date: May 24, 2018

Spoke signals. ♨️| Made from the scraps of other pies past, because one pie’s trash is another’s rehash. Reduce, reuse, re-piecle. ♻️

Date: May 22, 2018

Peel the burn. 🍎🔥| And I’m back! I fully intended to continue posting pies and stories after wrapping up the Machu Picchu trek, but being offline was so nice, I felt reluctant to return while still on the road. I’m now back in Seattle, feeling grateful for the opportunity to explore, and catching up with a @lokokitchen hand-sliced classic. 🔪 Happy Tuesday!

Date: May 8, 2018

No brain, no gain. 🧠| After many months of planning and probably not enough training 😅, I’m headed out to trek Machu Picchu. I’ll be off-the-grid for a bit, and if all goes well, I won’t fulfill the prophesy of the Dead Woman’s Pass and will live to craft moar pies. But if an alpacalypse strikes, it is fitting that I leave this new creation as my last—one that simultaneously looks like brains and ramen and a coral reef—appropriately encapsulating my mental quirks, an undying love of carbs, and the happiest life lived near the ocean. A Perufect legacy. 🤓🍜🌊

Date: May 4, 2018

Wanna be a baller, shot color. 🔮| @marthastewart’s Cauliflower Radish Tart with a @lokokitchen twist. 🦄| Not even kidding hue, and no, it’s not a pigment of your imagination—this is truly the Rico Mauve of tarts. It’s plumthing out of a magic winederland, and is a perfect meal for adults and/orchids. I really amethyst excited about how grape it is. Iris I could send you dinner, but I’ll settle for raisin a glass to all my ladies and magent(a)s. Happy Friday! 🍷

Date: May 2, 2018

Take it or weave it. 🕸| Let’s hang out this summer! We can sip cocktails in the sunshine, nose around in the garden, and make some tart art! I’m so excited to partner with @seattlefarmschool for a series of workshops that are officially live! Check my stories for details and a link to purchase your ticket! 🎟| Piñata apples with tequila caramel and a dash of cinnamon.

Date: April 27, 2018

Kapiedoscope. 🔭| I’m no @thida.bevington, but this frangipane tart will do for a Friday fling. C’mon rhubarbie, let’s go tarty. Ah ah ah yeah. 🎶👸🏼💅🏽| You may have caught me hinting earlier this week about upcoming summer workshops. I’ll be announcing a few fun things, so keep a close eye on my stories next week for all the details! 🥧🎉.

Date: April 24, 2018

The best-laid tans. ☀️| Cherry pie with a woven chocolate and peanut butter crust. | We’ve been having some quality discussions on here about things that don’t really matter (but which still foster v strong feelings). I’m normally terrible at small talk, but your responses have been so entertaining, I feel compelled to keep the conversation going. Which of course means I can’t think of any more questions to ask, so an awkward lull ensues and we all quietly stare off into the distance and gulp our wine until we can escape to get another glass...👀🍷🆘

Date: April 29, 2018

Heard through the shapevine. 🍇| Swirled lime and cranberry curd with mango tiles. | Let’s talk about bad words. No, not the ones that require wingding sequences on public platforms. Rather the seemingly innocuous ones that fill you with dread and make your skin crawl. Among the universally despised are words like “moist” and “flaccid.” 😅 My personal nemesis? Yummy. YUMMY. 😖 #alltheeyetwitches So let’s get gross...what’s yours?

Date: April 11, 2018

Neon the lookout. 👀| Sundry apples, the dredges of the miso caramel jar, and miscellaneous portions of beet and blueberry dough from the freezer because spring cleaning. | In other v boring housekeeping items (waaaay too much laughing on the last post, must dial back the fun 😉), anyone have a surefire solution for cleaning the inside of the oven door? Not sure what the previous tenants exploded in there, but I’ve been scrubbing for a year. The fewer the chemicals, the better (but so far, baking soda/vinegar/dish soap have not proven effective). 🆘 And while we’re at it, I’m also accepting strategies for getting in summer shape without exercising and giving up salty snacks. Spanx in advance. 🙃

Date: April 6, 2018

Slicebreakers.🔪| Icebreakers are the worst. Like, knowing that my preferred toothpaste brand is Sensodyne and that my favorite ice cream is Chocolate Malted Krunch (remember those 5-cent scoops from Thrifty?!) and that I’ve pooped my pants twice in my adult life is not going to make anyone more comfortable. But now that I’ve voluntold myself to go first, what’s your fourteenth most embarrassing moment? 🐢| It’s been a minute since I’ve done one of these hand-sliced layer tarts. Spiced honey-soaked apples with dulce de leche creme. Yes, I cut them all individually. No, I don’t have a recipe. Yes, I threw all those pants away. 👖🔥

Date: April 3, 2018

Got a trick up my weave. 🎩| After last week’s snarflefest in New York (ohmygod, that @momolongplay duck Ssam tho! 🤤), it’s business as usual back in Seattle with salads, kombucha, and colored crust. And now that I’ve acquired real blueberry powder, lilac for nothing. Life is grape. 🔮 (P.S. @linda_lomelino is the original purple pie crust queen. 👑)

Date: March 29, 2018

Show a little egg. 🥚I Chocolate passionfruit tart (hi, @valrhonausa!) and some neon @mmschocolate nuggz because this lady is shellbent on living her nest life and refuses to be eggnored. She’s got a henchant for punny yolks and her crack record’s eggcellent. Watch out—she’s coming white hatch ya. 💅🏽

Date: March 27, 2018

Kiss and shell. 🐚| I watched the entire season of @queereye on @netflix last night while I worked and I have no words and definitely no tears left. Brb. (But also, what should I watch next?)

Date: March 23, 2018

Ebb and dough. 🌊| @unconventionalbaker’s Coconut Cream Pie floating underneath ripples of lokonut crunchies. It’s an explocean of flavor in a wave new world, sand I’m tidally here for it. Rip on, brahs, beach and every one of you. 🤙🏽| I have a new FAQ page up on my website (link in profile)! All the crowd-sourced Maui and NYC recommendations live there along with information on where to order pies and how much I weigh. 👀

Date: March 20, 2018

In it to spin it. ☸️| Don’t let the week get you down. This mixed berry pinwheel is here to propel us through the pies and the blows. Because where there’s a mill, there’s a way. Together, we fan. 🔆

Date: March 16, 2018

It’s a mint to the finish. 🌿| What a trip!! It’s as if I’ve stumbled into the pot o’ gold at the end of the raindough. 🌈 Completely bowled clover by the response to all the Pi(e) Day hubbub. 😳 I am truly just a humble nerd puttering around in her home kitchen, so thanks a million for the exc-pie-tement. Irish I could give you all a personal pie five. | This Oreo and mint chip ice cream tart Andes chocolates are mint for you. Hope you are Dublin down on this Friday and getting ready to shamrock and roll this weekend. Cheers! 🍀🍻

Date: March 14, 2018

Touch pie body. 👅| Meet Ma-pie-ah Carey 👆🏽, my patron saintess of Pi(e) Day. ✨ She’s Hero to guide us through this One Sweet Day, and Honey, there’s so much happening! Today I’m celebrating with: my very own @buzzfeedtasty video on @facebook, a @popsugar story takeover, a @kuow radio segment, and my first two pie classes with @ashrod@notwithoutsaltshop! HOLY. Click through my stories throughout today for the direct links to all the excitement! And guys, truly. THANK YOU for being here. You’re a Vision of Love and We Belong Together. 💅🏽😘

Date: March 12, 2018

Easy buzz it. 🐝| This weekend really gave me a run for my honey. I’m bee-t. But it’s the start to a new week and I’m here to cheese the day with this potato and caramelized onion tart honeycombed with @traderjoes Irish Porter Cheddar. Yes, that’s cheese! You hive got to try it. It’s just the sting to make your Monday that much cheddar. (#notsponsored just hungry)

Date: March 7, 2018

Chainwreck. ⛓| I’ve had some baking experiments go awry recently. Dough the shade of slate tells me some things are just not cement to be. 🗿 Fortunately, @aussiedood.zeus and his human brought me a vial of cranberry powder to test and the results were less unsettling. Crusting the process and operating on autoviolet moving forward. 👾

Date: March 5, 2018

Mother of swirl. ⚪️| Plumthing’s gotta give...away some prize packs! Holy moly, a huge, pienormous thank you to everyone who entered the @lokokitchen starter pack sweetstakes! I love all the excitement around pie making. 🤗Be sure to check my stories tomorrow to see if you are one of the randomly chosen winnerz! 🏆

Date: March 2, 2018

Weave a sigh of relief. 💆🏻‍♀️| Guys, we made it to Friday. The weekend is around the corner. Take a load off. Order pizza for dinner (pepperoni and pineapple, obviously...oh, did I just start something? Please discuss. 😜). Plan to go on a hike in the morning and then sleep in instead. Do not change out of your sweatpants. Make lunch alongside @husbandsthatcook on their Saturday live show at 12pm PST. Do nothing the rest of the day. Retire to bed early feeling accomplished. Live the dream. Be like me or definitely don’t be like me, but have a great one regardless! I’ll be back next week with more puns, I promise. 🤓

Date: February 23, 2018

Caught off shard. 😳|🚨GIVEAWAY🚨 Guys, thank you for following along on this wild journey. I don’t think the shock of this becoming a thing will ever wear off. To celebrate the 50th @lokokitchen post, my website is live today! Additionally, I’ve assembled THREE starter packs of my pie-making essentials (rolling pin, pie plate, crust shield, pastry wheel, trusty metal ruler for those straight edges, and an insulated pie carrier!) to give away! AND one grand prize winner will also receive a box of ceramic pie weights along with 3 of my favorite pastry books: @katemcdermott’s Art of the Pie, @julie_jonesuk’s Soulful Baker, and @linda_lomelino’s Lomelino’s Pies! 🥧

To enter:
Follow @lokokitchen, like this photo, and tag 3 friends coming to your place for a bake sesh.

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Check the link in my profile for FOUR additional entry opportunities! 

Giveaway is open worldwide and closes on March 2, 2018 at 11:59PM PST. Winners will be chosen at random.

Date: February 21, 2018

Machine squash cold. Tumble dry dough. 👕| Laundry is my personal nemesis and I also happen to be terrible at it (or perhaps it’s causal?). I lazily toss the whole lot in together, press the auto button, and expect everything to turn out well. I think we all know it doesn’t work like that... 😬 In any case, I’m over here keeping a clothes eye on the washing machine, so get a load of my baked Chai Masala Pumpkin Pie from last fall (recipe by @taraobrady via @Food52). I do have some exciting things in the fold for later this week, so stay tuned!

Date: February 16, 2018

All the shingle ladies. 🏠| Today’s Friday tarty is shingle and ready to mingle. With a house full of blood orange curd primed to raise the mango roof, we’re busting out of this week with a tang. 💥| Also, Happy Lunar New Year! If I were a better Asian, I would have thought to make a flavor-relevant dessert, but here we are. I declare this the Year of the Backlog and hereby submit my IOU. 🎋

Date: February 14, 2018

March to a different beet. 🥁| Because were goobers by principle, Valentine’s is an extended excuse for lighthearted, unorthodox traditions for my partner and I—exchanging joke presents (a bouquet of boxers one year, an obese plush T-Rex another) and watching @pinkpanthermgm (the really bad/amazing remakes with Steve Martin). In our golden San Diego days, we’d load up the car with @tjoysterbar tacos and Sour Patch Kids and go to the drive-in theater in our pajamas. This unusually-colored pie crust is an ode to our philosophy that an important aspect of any relationship is fun. Here’s to merriment! | Special thanks to @chefspringsheldon who, after my experiment with raspberry dough went ham (🤣), kindly sent an email walking me through the process of vibrantly coloring with beet compound butter and beet juice! Genius. 💖

Date: February 9, 2018

Eat, pink, and be berry. 👅| This pink lemonade (raspberry lemon curd) tart with its mango arrows pointing the way to the weekend. I curdn’t be more stoked that it’s Friyay. Let’s tarty! 🎉

Date: February 7, 2018

Grin and carrot. 🥕| Miso White Carrot Pie with Black Sesame Crust showing up to the #24carrotgoals party dough-eyed and ready to dance the pieght away. 🕺🏼| I intended to construct a completely different crust design, but after the first few strips of dough sunk into the custard, I had to revert to the ol’ @lokokitchen signature spoke. But you know, this collab isn’t just about miso check out the other creations if you carrot all about tasty treats (peep the comments below)! 👀🥕| P.S. The inimitable @katemcdermott and I will be streaming live from the @allrecipes studio today at 1PM PST! Check my FB page to watch hilarity ensue.

Date: February 2, 2018

What’s love quat to do with it? 🍊| Chocolate tart with chocolate glaze from @epicurious tiled with tangy kumquats. With Valentine’s approaching, consider this one luxuriant way to help you say “Kumquat may, I’ll love you to my pieing day.” (Even if it’s to yourself because let’s be real, you deserve every last crumbquat.)

Date: January 30, 2018

Berried treasure. ☠️| I’m traveling this week, so throwing it back to one of the first pies I ever made. This was when I didn’t know anything (jk, I still don’t...teach me your ways, @katemcdermott!) and was using a knife and a cookie sheet to cut straight edges. Lolwtfbbq. Anyone can make pie, friends! Just start somewhere. 💃🏻

Date: January 25, 2018

Blood, sweat, and cheers. 🍻| #thirstythursday playing it fast and juice with this Paloma Tart (grapefruit and tequila curd!) studded with pineapple sparks. Happy hour vibes coming in hot! 💥 ¡Salud!

Date: January 23, 2018

Ham bam, thank you, ma’am. 🐽| Doesn’t this look like woven mortadella? Now that we’ve all vommed... Colored pie crust has been clattering around in the back of my mind for months now but I haven’t had time to experiment. Then @linda_lomelino posted her luscious purple-crusted pie and took the guesswork out of it by sharing the recipe on her blog. 🙏🏽 I used freeze-dried raspberries I had on hand instead of blueberry powder, so things are only porcine in color. 🐷 Must run more tests! P.S. Peep @findfarah’s feed for more colored crust inspo. No disturpink deli meat debacles there... 😅

Date: January 29, 2018

On a wild juice chase. 🍊| @thejamlab’s blood orange curd with (more) kiwi tiles because, you guessed it, #costco. 😜 If these chilly months are kiwing you and you’re just biding time until summer 🙋🏻‍♀️, search for Amisha’s tart recipe on @thefeedfeed and make it immediately. Winter citrus magically transformed into SUNSHINE. Eat your tart out! ☀️🥝

Date: January 17, 2018

The day I met my mash. 🍠| I made this Purple Sweet Potato Pie for @food52 in November and remember being terrified of this ghastly color. But despite getting off to a bad starch, it baked into a much more pleasing shade. Not tuberd if I may say so myself. 🤓 Scroll down through my feed to find the finished version.

Date: January 11, 2018

But kiwi see it baked? 🥝| @evakosmasflores’ Blueberry Lemon Olive Oil Curd Tart with hand-cut green and gold kiwi tiles. | A small note of clarification: every other @lokokitchen post is a tart, which generally means that what you see IS the finished and baked version. 🤗 Cheers and thanks for following along! You’re incurdible. 💜💚

Date: January 9, 2018

Dressed to the lines. 〰️| How else does one mow through @costco quantities of butter, flour, and sweet potatoes but with pie? Last week, I was scrounging the pantry. This week, I’m clearing house. #notsponsored, just anti-hoarding

Date: January 4, 2018

All pretz are off. 🥨| I started making @husbandsthatcook’s Nutella Cream Pie before I realized that I didn’t have enough Nutella or any mascarpone...you know, just the two main ingredients. Dur. 🤦🏻‍♀️ So this evolved into a peanut butter Nutella tart with a pretzel crust situation instead, and is specially dedicated to all of you on New Year’s diets! 😈 To health, wealth, and better-stocked pantries! 😬

Date: January 2, 2018

I can hardly beweave my eyes! 🙈| These pie crust edges are as ragged as I felt after attempting this basket weave. This one hurt the brain but the finished product was pretty satisfying. That’s about how 2017 felt—a year that saw many personal milestones, a smattering of tears, and one big colossal surprise (oh, hi, legion of lovely @lokokitchen friends!). Here’s to 2018 and all that pies ahead! 🥂