Ever loose a favourite recipe? A treasured family recipe no longer found in the hand written recipe box? Not found in the wonderful recipe program your sweetie custom designed for you? Not in the carefully typed out binder pages or any associated backup files? Curiously missing from each data base upgrade through the years? Totally absent in any cookbooks on home or library shelves, no matter how many times you rechecked… a recipe not to be found on the wild and wonderful web… unbelievable. Even as I type this I found myself back staring at my cookbooks, unable to believe it wasn’t there in one of my bestest cookbooks…just over looked…

Over the last 14 years I have been searching for this recipe “Peach Parfait Pie” It has haunted my dreams and sessions in the kitchen trying to recreate this chocolate & ice-cream and peach dessert.  All my pleading and begging friends and family to search for it… “Peach Parfait Pie” the hours haunting every recipe related forum and mailing list… “Peach Parfait Pie” I still can’t believe my inability to find this creation lurking in an obscure location on the net. More and more I came to believe it was like a wife trying to bake the same oatmeal cookies her husband remembered mom having ready for him after school.  An impossibility even with Mom-in-Love’s own recipe.  Nothing tastes better than a happy memory. I made excuses: no homemade ice-cream, no luscious home canned peaches… I contacted Kellogg’s, regularly ever three years or so, hoping they would find it in a long lost archive or cereal box museum.  Nada – but I can just picture the recipe and photo on the back of a Rice Krispies box.  Sad isn’t it?  Never have I regretted not being an inspired inovative “baker” more.

(insert memory of a little fellow looking up in awe upon hearing my name was Mrs. Baker.  “Do you bake?”)

One afternoon this summer I tackled the recipe search once more. (no I didn’t contact the poor customer service people at Kellogg’s and beg them to find my recipe, honest!)  After searching through the 50 odd pages Google so kindly gathered for me and drooling over the page after page of pictures displaying pies, pies, pies, I tried something different (slow I am I know!) I searched for chocolate crispy cereal pie crusts.  Ding!

The Day After An Inconvenient Truth has the ChocoCrisp Crust.

AND

Jamie Cooks It Up! for the peach topping inspirations.

AND

I give you…. “Peach Parfait Pie” tada!

Tomorrow the recipe.