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| - I was not really impressed with the pies here. The setting is nice and quaint, but my review reflects the pie, because the place is called Pie.
The blueberry pie was so-so. There was enough fruit filling, but it didn't really taste of blueberries. Plus the crust was bready, dry, and bland. Not flaky at all, and not buttery enough.
Stay away from the chocolate mousse pie. They commit the cardinal sin of putting gelatin in their mousse. Sure it makes it hold its shape, but the mousse loses its smoothness, and the gelatin blunts the flavour of the chocolate. The crust was likewise bland, dry, and not flaky.
I suspect that the recipes are the way they are because they are trying to make their pies low-fat. Low-fat crust = dry boring crust. Gelatin in mousse means you need fewer egg yolks, which means less fat. If you like your desserts low-fat, that's up to you, but to me that's just a recipe for torture, so I can't recommend Wanda's for pie. Some of their grain salads looked interesting, however, perhaps I'll go back and try them.
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