Binging with Babish: Pies from Waitress

[Movie Clip Begins] "I'm Inventing a new pie in my head, I'm calling it 'I Don't Want Earl's Baby' Pie.. 'Baby Screaming Its Head Off in the Middle of the Night and Ruining My Life' Pie New York style cheesecake, brandy brushed... "and Jen a special strawberry chocolate oasis pie. You got that?" "I got that" "it's downright expert a thing of beauty how each flavor opens itself one by one like a chapter in a book" [Movie Clip Ends] Hey what's up guys, welcome back to Binging with Babish, where this week we're taking a look at the pies from Waitress. Now, Adrienne Shelly the writer and director of Waitress was tragically killed back in 2006 and since it's the last episode to come out of the old kitchen I thought it'd be cool to donate a portion of the profits to the Adriene Shelly Foundation a nonprofit that helps support women filmmakers. There's a link in the video description where you can contribute as well. But, now it's time to get down to the business of making pies. Now we've made pie crust a few times on this show we're just making a basic food processor butter pie crust you can check out how to make that via the link appearing in the upper right-hand corner of your screen... right now... as always once we've formed the dough into a sort of pie crust patty-cake we're going to wrap tightly in plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes ideally an hour before pounding and rolling out. I should probably also tell you what we're making today we're making "Bad Baby Pie" or "I Don't Want Earl's Baby Pie" which is a very simple quiche with ham and brie cheese. so once you have pressed not stretched your pie crust into its cooking vessel we're going to decoratively crimp the edges of our pie crust into the classic wavy thing pattern and then we're going to chill again for 30 minutes.. it's going to help prevent the crust from shrinking too much when we par bacon, which we're gonna do right now. line it with foil and fill with pie weights or if you don't have any of just some brown rice or beans will do and go ahead and par bake for 10 minutes at 425 degrees Fahrenheit during which time we're going to make our quiche filling. the only way I'm gonna deviate from her recipe is adding a little bit of cream to the beaten eggs. then we're going to let our perfectly prepared par baked pie crust cool off for about 30 minutes before layering in some wedges of brie cheese the same way she does in the movie and a few hearty handfuls of ham pour in the egg filling seasoning with a little bit of salt and pepper making sure everybody's pretty evenly covered and then I've got a baking sheet that I've been preheating in that 425-degree oven I've lowered the oven temperature to 350 degrees Fahrenheit and I'm baking this guy for about 35 minutes or until set. then I'm going to let it cool for maybe 38 45 minutes until it's still warm and cut myself a big ol slice and as you can see the way the brie is stacked makes it pretty localized to the center of the pie, but you're not gonna hear me complaining but alas it's not going to join the clean plate club because it needs something else some chives some garlic some caramelized onions give it a try yourself get creative and just pick out the ham if it doesn't turn out well... Next up, we're going for old horny Joe's personal favorite chocolate strawberry oasis pie we're gonna start by making a chocolate crumb crust out of precisely 25 finally processed Oreos and 5 tablespoons of melted unsalted butter. mix until it resembles wet sand and begin to press into your removable bottom tart pan some ramekins from our Amelie episode are perfect for pressing it into all the nooks and crannies you want to get this nice and even and not too thick we want this to be a chocolate pie not a chocolate crust pie we want to set this crust shape so we're going to part bake it for about 8 minutes at 350 degrees Fahrenheit. during which time we're going to prepare our filling. we're combining one of the quarter cups of heavy cream with a dash of instant espresso powder, a dash of allspice, and a dash of cinnamon to account for the exotic spices described by old Joe. we're bringing that to a bare simmer and then adding it to nine ounces of chopped high-quality chocolate. we're going to slowly combine these. you want to whisk slowly because you don't want to introduce too many air bubbles. don't worry this is sped up footage, I'm not actually whisking that fast. then once everything's nice and homogeneous we're adding it four tablespoons of unsalted butter cut in small pieces. again, whisking gently to combine at this point it should be cooled off enough that we can add two large lightly beaten eggs. again, whisking slowly, again- air bubbles, and there we go we've got our chocolate filling it's gonna be a nice rich almost ganache like filling that we're going to pour into our cooled pie crust. and then to finish off the last few of those dastardly bubbles pop them with a skewer as they rise to the top. we're then putting this guy into a 250 degree fahrenheit oven for 30 to 35 minutes until jiggly, but set with light cracks formed on its surface. while we let this guy cool completely on a rack we're going to make a simple chocolate glaze to hold our strawberries in place we're combining three tablespoons of hot butter with two ounces of chopped chocolate covering and letting get all melty and stuff for 30 seconds, uncovering and whisking to combine and then for a little extra Sheen we're going to add a tablespoon of hot water, again whisking to combine, make sure to whisk slowly because bubbles. We're then pouring that over top of our completely cooled cake spreading nice and evenly over the top and then beginning to shingle on sliced strawberries this is after all "Chocolate Strawberry Oasis Pie" so make it look nice like a desert rose and to extract this pie from its mold simply put it on top of the large can and pull down the fluted sides and at long last it's time to cut ourselves a piece that's looking good like chocolate pie not chocolate crust pie and let's give it a taste now I know you were probably worried about the powdered espresso but that just sort of amplifies the chocolatey flavor it doesn't make it coffee like which would be weird with strawberries and I gotta say I only recommend it and it's joining the clean plate club off camera. Last up and probably my favorite, is a New York style cheesecake with pecans and brandy we're gonna start by making our graham cracker crust processing together six whole graham crackers along with two and one-third ounces of brown sugar processing until fine and then adding two and 1/2 ounces all-purpose flour, seasoning with a little bit of salt and processing once again.. before making things moist, with 7 tablespoons of melted butter that we're gonna process together until it reaches the consistency of wet sand. and now we're gonna butter down a springform a 9-inch high-walled springform pan to be precise before adding our graham cracker crust and tamping down again using a ramekin until even and flat. and we're gonna partake this in a 325 degree fahrenheit oven for 12 to 14 minutes or until it just starts turning a lovely Brown. now, time to make the cheesecake filling we're cutting up two and a half pounds or five whole things of full fat cream cheese into a stand mixer and we're adding five and a half ounces of sugar and a teaspoon of salt. making sure our stand mixer is plugged in. and blending for about a minute until thoroughly combined... we're gonna be doing a lot of stages of blending because the more we blend the filling the smoother it's going to be. so scrape down the paddle and the sides of the bowl add another five ounces of sugar and mix on medium speed again for about a minute. scrape down the sides again and now we're gonna add a solid third of a cup of sour cream, along with the squeezed juice of one half of one lemon, and a nice heaping teaspoon of vanilla extract. blend to combine medium speed about a minute. Now we're gonna start adding eggs we're starting with two large egg yolks, blend for a minute, scrape down the sides. and then we're going to start adding six whole eggs, two at a time, blending for a minute each and then scraping down the sides. rinse and repeat. it's gonna take a while so we can just make some a pleasant conversation in the meantime.... who do you think is hot or Roz or Daphne? during which season did Frasier really start to go downhill? I only know how to talk about Frasier... okay now that we've got our Frasier pleasantries out of the way we've got a nice smooth cheesecake filling. that we're going to take one additional step to make sure it's extra smooth by passing it through a fine mesh sieve. and then it's time to finally pour it into our pre-prepared crust like oh shoot!!! I forgot to butter down the sides of things!!!! so I'm gonna meticulously pour out and clean out the sides.... and then make sure you brush down your springform pan with an extra layer of butter before pouring in your cheesecake filling. and as has become the theme of this episode, bubbles are the enemy. they can just cause your cheesecake to crack so run a fork over the top, and pop them as they rise to the surface then we're baking this guy, slowly, at 200 degrees Fahrenheit for 45 minutes. taking it out, to again pop any bubbles that have risen to the surface. I will not have a cracked cheesecake then we're putting this guy back in the 200 degree oven for up to two and three-quarter hours. until its internal temperature reads 165 as you can see there's a few stab points on here it doesn't matter cuz I'm gonna be covering this up with pecans, despite my ranting about cracks, within blasting this in a 500 degree fahrenheit oven for about 6 minutes and up to 12, until it gets a lovely burnished Brown top. we're gonna quickly run a paring knife around the outside of the cake to make sure it separates easier later, and letting cool for three hours at this point we're ready to unmold the cake, but we're not ready to eat it yet... sadly enough. we're going to wrap it in plastic wrap and fridge it for an additional four hours and now that you've spent the better part of a day making a cheesecake... let's pour ourselves some brandy! I'm kidding. we're just brushing this down with brandy because that's what the pie genius Jenna did in the movie and then we're topping it with some toasted and chopped pecans pecans, pecans (pronounced differently each time) and now finally we get to enjoy the fruits of our labor. a towering slice of rich, velvety, creamy New York style cheesecake with- and I would say shockingly crisp crust I couldn't taste the brandy at all maybe a brandy syrup would be better but this was absolutely fabulous I really recommend you try this one. get creative with sauces and toppings as we enjoy another worthy entry to the clean plate club, off camera.

Channel: Babish Culinary Universe

Views: 6,318,252

Rating: 4.9393487 out of 5

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Id: NgloGi5xEa8

Length: 9min 37sec (577 seconds)

Published: Tue May 08 2018

Reddit Comments

[u/Oh_I_still_here]

That strawberry and chocolate pie looked fucking amazing. Damn I'm hungry.

[u/[deleted]]

Pies are superior to cake and now I really, really want some pie

[u/inverse_tiresias]

The different pronunciations of "pecan" tend to be split along US North-South lines. Between PEE-cahn and peh-CAHN the latter sounds more "right" imho.

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Supplemental links:

• Babish's Apple Pie crust recipe
• Serious Eats blind baking tips
• And where a portion of this episode's proceeds are going: Adrienne Shelley Foundation

[u/Gopher2K16]

Babish got me into Frasier. I’m only through season 1, but definitely Roz over Daphne.

[u/jstohler]

I actually winced when you forgot to butter the sides.

[u/[deleted]]

Holy shit I'm buying a stand mixer this weekend.

[u/StomaticX]

My favorite topping of all time for NY baked cheese cake is definitely Strawberries soaked in Cointreau with a squeeze of lime juice and a teaspoon of white caster sugar. The zesty Cointreau cuts through the creaminess of the cheesecake but accentuates the vanilla flavor. The strawberries add a nice textural difference, colour, and doesn't make you feel so bad for eating 4 slices...

[u/acekoolus]

Another tip you can use for that cheesecake is to cook in a water bath, or in a springform pan, you can put a pan of water on the bottom rack while cooking to help eliminate cracking.

[u/chunkosauruswrex]

A tip for making cheesecake line your pan with parchment paper to prevent sticking. I'm actually surprised he didn't do that as it's very common when making cheesecake.