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The oven in Dinohouse gets a lot of love

Sometimes I bake pies! Sometimes my roommates sing crazy loud metal songs about pie at 7am. Please forgive the horrible photos, my decent camera is currently on loan to a bicycle shop.

So, my mom gave me a million bags of cookies after Christmas.  Including about a thousand or so gingerbread people.  After eating all the other cookies these lonely little cripples were left. So I put them out of their misery and crunched them up.

I bought some pie filling on a whim last time I was at the store, and we have some random canned goods here and there. I found a can of condesnsed milk, I had no idea it was supposed to look like that. Gross.

Shit. I only have one egg. I even checked all my roommates food shelves. There is only ONE EGG in the entire house.  I hope it works!

I tried to cool the crumbly crust by putting it in the freezer after pre-baking. Patience isn't my strong suit.

Before and after! The crust did something weird. It didn't stay together at all.  Perhaps someone has a tip on getting cookie crusts to stay a little more cohesive?  Mine was just a buttery mess of crumbs.

It is completely edible! Good even! I like the gingery crust.  This is a somewhat success. There are still some cookie crumbs left over, and I think they might make good cheesecake tarts. If you have a cookie crust recipe, I'd love to see it!