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Hi everyone :D

Last night was the first real shift where we were baking something at my Baking Arts course. I think I mentioned that last week we had made pie dough - something I was never good at, even from a package (and maybe that was the problem). We had cut shortening into flour (used our hands!), added a little water and brown sugar, and then left the dough in the freezer for a week, when this week we peeled and cut apples, coated them (and I mean coated, these were drenched in sugar), and packed the apples into our pie shells. I was impressed with myself for managing to make a pie shell that hadn't fallen apart at the first moment of picking it up, and I thought the apples were odd to be put in raw, but after about 45 minutes of baking (I made a lattice top, since I wanted to be a bit fancy and try my hand on some new tricks on top of "actually making a pie") I had this gorgeous apple pie fresh out of the professional oven.

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Christine was downtown seeing a couple of her friends, so I went to pick them up, and I was so proud of the pie that I suggested we stop at one of their homes and taste it. After grabbing about 2 or 3 dozen photos of it, taste we did. It was delicious, and flaky, and half the pie was gone in a matter of minutes. :D I was amazed at the consistency of the pastry - I had never made pastry that worked so well, and I couldn't help but devour my slice without overanalyzing it as I'm wont to do.

I can't remember why we nicknamed it the "Sonic Apple Pie" but it just has lots of kick. I'll need to look at the recipe again and make sure that I can replicate this. :D