In case you were wondering what pie I made

I was not planning on taking a pie to pie night. Making pie intimidates me. I have made some before but always with help from my mom and I just didn't want to do it myself and mess up. But my sister, Mariah, said that I needed to make one and even offered to come down to my house the morning of pie night to help me, so I decided I would make a pie.

Casey's Grandpa Finch had given us a bunch of Apples for helping on his farm. I knew I would make an apple pie and I wanted it to be the best apple pie ever. Mariah brought me her pie book that has like 20 different recipes just for apple pies and we decided on a Caramel Apple Pie, with a crunchy streusel topping, drizzled with caramel. It sounded delicious! Everything went smoothly as we made the pie.

This is the pie before going in the oven. Isn't it pretty?! In the bottom of the crust (which I made by myself!), there are little cut up caramels, then the apples are piled high on top!
(Mariah ended up cutting all of the apples for me. She's the best huh?!)

This is the pie after adding the streusel topping and then finishing baking.

After the pie cooled for one hour, I added the yummy melted caramel to the top.

It looked absolutely perfect.

I couldn't wait to eat it.

My first pie by myself, minus the apple cutting :)

Hooray!!

And...

The finished product...

This is what happened when I put the pie down on the cooling rack to get hotpads so I could take the finished product to show casey, which tipped the cooling rack, sliding the pie onto the floor, head first, ruining my beautiful pie before anyone got to see or taste it!

Obviously I was very upset, and I had just done my makeup- ugh. But I needed a picture so Casey stepped in.

Casey told tried some, okay alot, and loved it. I decided after 3 hours of making and cooking the pie I better try some too. It was soo good even all jumbled together.

Maybe I'll be brave and make it again.
Maybe for Thanksgiving.