I Like Pie Bake Shop (Claremont, CA)

Since it’s fall, I’ve been craving good pumpkin pie and apple cider. The cider has been a bit hard to find but the pie is definitely not. The pies at I Like Pie Bake Shop are the business. Their traditional pumpkin pie is my favorite! 🙂

This is their pumpkin pie. It’s so cute with the pumpkin cut out.

This is the holiday pear pie. It has pear, apple, and cranberry I believe. The crust is delicious and it’s not too sweet. They also garnish it with orange zest which gives it a nice citrusy taste.

The pie bag they packaged everything in 🙂

This is a picture of the glazed apple, cherry chess, and lemon buttermilk. My sister and I sampled the lemon buttermilk and it’s delicious! The glazed apple is an employee favorite but I haven’t tried it yet.

This is the traditional butter pecan pie. Holy cow! It’s so good but after a few bites I thought I might get diabetes. These are mini pies mind you.

The caramel apple crunch pie is also very sweet. I made the mistake of trying it last and I almost choked because of all the sweets.

The holiday pear pies on the counter.

The savory pies! 🙂 They have both sweet and savory ones which is great.

More sweet pies that didn’t sound as appetizing.

The caramel apple crunch pies on the counter.

The best pumpkin pie ever! I’m totally biased though because I haven’t tried the pumpkin pie from Julian’s Pie Company.

Choices! So many choices! I felt like I died and went to pie heaven. Is there such a place?

The pumpkin pecan cream cheese pie. The crust on this one was the best! However, the cream cheese was a bit overwhelming. I’ll stick with the traditional pumpkin.

All the pies we bought were 4.50 each with the except of the pumpkin pecan cream cheese one. That one was bigger and priced at 6.50. The prices are definitely a little steep but it’s damn good quality pie. I know Marie Calendar’s definitely does not make pumpkin pie like I Like Pie Bake Shop. I love the hole in a wall cute places and this is one of those places. The decor was very cute and modern. I’ll have to come back to try the savory pies! 🙂 The mini pies are so cute! It inspires me to try and make them on my own. My adventures about the Sinfully Sweet Apple Co next!

Fail Sweetly,
Justina

boston iced tea

I was surfing the web yesterday and came across a blog called ValSoCal. She had a recipe for Boston iced tea which looked awesome (because it’s red). It’s super easy to make too! 🙂

Boston Iced Tea
– a mason jar
– 3/4 sweet tea (I used Pure Leaf)
– 1/4 cranberry raspberry juice (I used Ocean Spray)
– 2-3 slices of lemon
– 5-6 ice cubes

– add ice cubes and lemon slices to mason jar
– pour the sweet tea 3/4 of the way full in your jar
– pour the cranberry raspberry juice until it fills up the jar (about 1/4)
– put the lid on the jar and shake to combine

I highly suggest using the lemon slices. I drank some with and without the lemon slices and it definitely taste better with the lemon. There’s that ice tea/lemonade taste from the slices of lemon. I love the color. It’s absolutely gorgeous for a summer day. Thanks Val! 🙂

Fail Sweetly,
Justina