Imagine Lemon Meringue Pie. Now substitute lime juice for the lemon juice in the filling and replace 1/4 cup of the water in the filling with rum. Cook several sprigs of mint in the filling as well.
Ali & I had the idea for making a mojito pie. You can see from the photo that this pie was actually made.
We felt that our creation should have a graham cracker crust; and we didn't want to go out to buy soy free graham crackers, so we decided to make our own.
Exploring on the web we found a delicious recipe for perfect graham crackers. It turns out that graham flour is just whole wheat flour, although a slightly coarser grind. These crackers tasted so much like the real thing and were fun to make. Thank you to 123chef for posting this recipe on the website Chef Talk.com (forum.) Here is the recipe with a few modifications from us.
Home Made Graham Crackers
(makes enough for 2 pie crusts, or one crust and lots of delicious munching)
2 1/2 cups (10 ounces) unbleached all-purpose flour
1 cup (4.5 ounces) graham flour (whole wheat)
1/4 cup + 1 tablespoon (2 ounces) brown sugar
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon kosher salt
3 ounces unsalted butter (or palm oil shortening)
1/2 cup honey
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/3 cup water
1 teaspoon cinnamon (optional)
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Combine all the ingredients in a stand mixer with the paddle attachment. Mix until smooth and well combined, scraping down the bowl. This makes a very easy to handle, non sticky dough. Divide dough in half.
Pat out one portion of dough on a piece of parchment, to the size of a large, thick pancakes.
Lay another piece of parchment over the dough and roll it out with a rolling pin, until about 1/8-inch thick. (I think ours were a bit thicker, but baked up fine.)
Peel off the top parchment and transfer the bottom parchment with dough onto a baking sheet. Cut dough into squares with a knife or pizza cutter. Do not separate squares.
Bake for about 10 minutes and then check the cracker for doneness, bake for another 3-6 minutes. The crackers should be golden brown. Repeat with other portion of dough.
Place baking sheet on a cooling rack. Once cool, the graham cracker can be broken into squares, or crushed into crumbs for pie crust.
