Pi Week - Lemonade Pie

Happy Pi Day Gamers!  As gamers we are often labeled as nerds or geeks.  For my MMO gamers out there this is especially true.  We spend hours plotting detailed strategies to kill pixilated baddies.  We do complex mathematical equations to optimize gear, spells, and xp.  There's a ton of geek in us and most of us embrace it.  Today is definitely a geek holiday & I say we enjoy it.   So my gamers, today sit back and think of all the people who see our hobbies as wasted hours in basements...  got a visual?  Good, now smile proudly because odds are they don't have a Pie to celebrate 3.14 since nongeeks usually don't even know it's Pi Day.

Now let's cook up a terrific Lemonade Pie & bask in our geekdom.  This pie is so incredibly easy and man, I could eat the whole thing.  As a matter of fact, I need to type the recipe quick before school's out & the teenager hits the fridge.

Prep Time: 10 Minutes
Total Time: 24 hours
Skill Needed: Apprentice

Ingredients:

• 1 8oz Cool-Whip
• 1 6oz can Frozen Lemonade 
• 1 14oz can Sweetened Condensed Milk
• 1 6oz prepared Graham Cracker Crust

Directions:

1. Using a mixer, mix Cool-Whip, Lemonade and Condensed milk until Fluffy.
2. Pour into pie crust.
3. Refrigerate overnight or until Firm.
   

Pi Week - Proc'ing Orange Creamsicle Pie

3.14159265358979323846 Week continues!  Our second pie to honor Pi week is something a little sweet.  It's light, fluffy and if you're a fan of Orange Creamsicles... you're probably going to be a big fan of this one.  Be aware though, this recipe makes TWO pies!  Just buy 2 premade pie crusts and you're good to go.  Think of it as crafting something and it proc'ing & giving you 2 for you gamers out there.  Make one for raid night dessert & save the other to take to Work, School, a Family Gathering or your significant other.  Multitasking my friends...  You get a yummy pie AND you show off your mad cooking skills... Like a Boss!


Prep Time: 10 Minutes
Total Time: 3 hours
Skill Needed: Artisan

Ingredients:

• 8ox Cream Cheese, softened 
• 16oz Cool-Whip, thawed
• 1c Orange Juice 
• 1 4oz box Instant Vanilla Pudding 
• 1 3oz box Orange Flavor Gelatin (Jello)
• 2 6oz prepared Graham Cracker Crusts

Directions:

1. Soften cream cheese to room temperature a few hours before you make your pies.  Don't lay it out 30 minutes & think you're good to go, you're not.  Make sure it's super soft or, you'll have lumpy pies.
2. Blend cream cheese and Cool-Whip well.
3. Add Orange Juice and beat with a mixer until very creamy.
4. Stir in pudding.
5. Stir in Gelatin and blend well.
6. Add half the mixture to each pie crust & spread gently.
7. Chill 3 hours before serving!

Broreokies

It's a cookie! It's an Oreo treat! It's a brownie! We at the Hungry Gamer can't figure out which it is exactly but one things for sure.... They are awesome! Quick? Easy? Not messy at your PC? (silly keyboard turners) Yes!


Prep Time: 15 Minutes
Total Time: 1 Hour
Skill Needed: Apprentice

Ingredients:

• 1 package of chocolate chip cookie mix
  
• About 26 Oreo Cookies
  
• 1 box Brownie Mix

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line 9x13 pan with wax paper and spray with cooking oil.
2. Mix Chocolate Chip Cookie Mix according to package directions and pat evenly into bottom of pan.
3. Lay Oreo cookies side by side to create a layer on the cookie dough layer.
4. Prepare Brownie Mix as directed on package.
5. Pour Brownie batter over Oreo layer.
6. Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes.
   

Pirrrate Day Rrrum Cake

Ahoy!  Welcome to the Pirrrrrrrrate's Day edition of ye hungrrrry gamerrrrrrrr!  Avast and Behold today's beauty you dessert lubbers out therrrrre!  This cake is a grog lubbers dream.  So drop ye anchor smartly lass and bake up some booty better than a treasure chest of doubloons! 


Prep Time: 10 Minutes
Total Time: 1 Hour
Serves: 12
Skill Needed: Apprentice

Ingredients:

Cake

• 1 Yellow Cake Mix
• 1 (3 1/2 ounce) package Vanilla Instant Pudding Mix
• 4 Eggs
• 1/2 cup Cold Water
• 1/2 cup Oil
• 1/2 cup Rum

Glaze

• 1/2 cup Butter
• 1 cup Sugar
• 1/4 cup Water
• 1/2 cup Rum

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 325.
2. Grease a 13x9 cake pan.
3. Mix cake ingredients together.
4. Pour batter in pan and bake for 45 minutes.
5. Before time to remove cake from oven:  In a small saucepan, melt butter and add in sugar, water and rum.  Boil about 5 minutes stirring to ensure sugar dissolves.
6. Remove cake from oven and prick holes all over cake top with a fork.
7. Slowly pour hot glaze over cake.

Freezes great!

Chocolate Eclair Cake

I can't take credit for today's recipe but guarantee this piece of heaven is a gamer's dream. My mom made this for years while raising 2 gamers of her own. It's so easy to make and few desserts I've had even held a candle to this one. It's quick enough to make that mom always had time to get it done, keep an eye on kids and still have time to get in a daily fix... of Tetris!

Prep Time: 20 Minutes
Total Time: 6 hours
Serves: 12

Skill Needed: Apprentice

Ingredients:

• 1 box Graham Crackers
  
• 2 small boxes Instant Vanilla Pudding
  
• 3c Milk
• 1c Powdered Sugar
  
• 8oz Cool Whip
• 1 can Chocolate Icing

Directions:

1. In a bowl, mix pudding, sugar and milk till smoothe.
   
2. Add in cool whip and mix well.
   
3. Butter a 13x9 pan.
4. Layer graham crackers, then half mix of the pudding mixture, another graham cracker layer, then rest of pudding mixture, and add a graham cracker layer on top.
5. Spread chocolate icing over graham cracker layer.
   
6. Refrigerate 6-12 hours and serve cold!