Pumpkin Pie

by Celia Sin-Tien Cheng
November 24, 2005

‘WICHCRAFT
224 12th Ave
(27th & 28th Sts)
New York, NY 10001
212-780-0577

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I LOVE pumpkin pie! Actually, I love all things pumpkin, but I really love pumpkin pie. For the past couple of years I’ve been on the search for one that would blow me away, but I’ve always been disappointed by what I’ve found in the city. Certainly, I have ventured out to other pumpkin sweets and found some consolation in treats like Fatwich’s pumpkin brownies, Magnolia’s pumpkin cheesecake (although it is getting worse), and Beard Papa’s pumpkin cream puffs. Most recently I discovered that Savoy’s pumpkin spice cake is delicious, but I still have not been able to satiate my pumpkin pie craving. Where O where was my perfect pumpkin pie?

Well, luck would have it that I ordered a pumpkin pie from ’wichcraft for my Thanksgiving dinner this year, and, voilà, can I just say “Oh my god?!” If I don’t say so myself, it was by far the most popular dish at our feast, and it went quickly even though everyone was stuffed from the turkey and side dishes.

’wichcraft uses roasted pumpkin in addition to the usual ingredients. The pie is extremely moist, and that includes the homemade graham cracker crust. The filling is rich and the honey added makes it very caramelly. The filling and crust work in perfect harmony and you want to savor them, both apart and together equally. The smooth filling and the granulated graham cracker crust offer a variety in texture, but certainly the two work in unison to deliver a gorgeous taste that I can’t get out of my mind. The pie is sprinkled with pumpkin seeds as a brilliant little touch to complete this perfect pumpkin pie.

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