Hey everyone. I know this has been discussed on here before, but what is a good way to make a good cream pie? Crust? No crust? Whipped cream? It's been a while since I have made one, but I see a lot of good pies on here. Any good recipes or ways to launch the pie at another person (having one person getting the pie and one person throwing)?

Thanks for you help everyone.

My favourite pie ingredient is shaving foam. I was taught a couple of interesting recipes for a bit of variety. One is to mix shaving foam with some food colouring or poster paint for a colourful wam treat. You can also mix shaving foam with custard for a more sloppy pie.

I've been pied by a few different substances. Whipped cream is fun but can stink after a while. Plain old custard is fun too but doesn't give a lot of coverage.
I'm sure many folk on here will be able to furnish you with other pie recipes.
One recipe I would like to know is the pies from that Brazilian game show "Chega Mais"

What is your ultimate goal?

This is important because if you don't know where to end, you don't know where to start.

When you say throwing, do you mean specifically there is a moment in time where the pie is midair? If so, you'll want a baked crust. When you have a good shell, you can literally fling it. While markets are different, if you go to your local grocery store, there will be pie shells, which have the tin and the crust together. I haven't been able to tell if there's a real price difference between shells and crusts alone.

If you're delivery is more up close and personal, where the thrower and target are in contact, then you have a few more options. But if you want a crust, go with graham cracker. Now, here's the kicker - more expensive is not necessarily better. High quality pie crusts stick to the tin, so if you want it to come out, avoid them, and go with the generic. There is a sub-generic which is excellent. It's cheaper than my store brand, and is available at Dollar Tree stores that sell foodstuff, and online. DT also offers site to store shipping for free, but it takes about 2 weeks to come in. The price is self explanatory.

Filling is another can of worms.

Pro-tip - worms make a bad filling.

Canned whipped cream can be good, but melts exceedingly fast. Cool whip is not recommended. Great for eating, but it sticks together. If you cut it with another dairy product, in a 1 oz:1 oz ratio, it works breat. You may need to cut it with a little water. Not sure how much. Experimentation is recommended. That's probably going to be the most fun doing science you've ever had in your life!

You may also like shaving cream. It may suit you very well. However, there are some things you can do to improve shaving cream. Because shaving cream is nothing but a whole much of tiny soap bubbles, it's very temperature=dependent. If it gets too cold, it can come out looking like milk. However, if you heat it up with hot water you can make the bubbles bigger. This makes a single can fill more volume.

***Go with water hot enough for you to handle. If the can gets too hot, it could explode. The water will scald you before the can explodes, so if you can handle the water, so can the can.***

You can further modify it by adding a little bit of water. Some of the things I don't particularly care for about it is it's stick=together factor and it's light weight. If you like splatter, straight shaving cream may not be the best for you. You can add a little water and mix well for a more dairy product aesthetic.

Finally, there is home-made heavy whipping cream. I would argue this is the gold standard. However, compared to all the other preparations, it's also the most difficult, and you need an electric mixer. It does have a tendency to melt, fairly quickly. You' can't prepare it in the morning for an afternoon or evening session. However, I've been doing some research, and there are ways you can make it hold it's shape longer. Melt some unflavored gelatin and pour it in the heavy whipping cream when it's about done, and whip for a few more minutes. From what I've read, it should hold it's shape for up to 24 hours. Cream of tartar may work also, but it can effect the flavor. It seems like xanthum gum and corn starch might be a good candidate for creating synthetic whipped cream, but that is totally theoretical.

Ok, so that's all make your own pies, what about premade pies?

I have much less experience with this. When you make your own, you are literally looking at a per-pie price of as little as $1 and some change, up to maybe 2.50. Store bought pies can start at around $5 each, and only goes up.

I have very little experience with frozen pies. From my experience, it seems like the quality inside a single brand, varies wildly. From a reasonable substitute to lower than expected. I've had more, and better, experience with bakery pies. The ones I get are about the same price as the frozen pies, but my supplier doesn't always have the pies I want. (There are three possible bakery pies I can buy - chocolate cream, banana cream, and coconut cream. When I think throwing pies, I think banana or coconut, even though there's nothing that says chocolate cream can't be used. So I tend to shy away from chocolate, but that is a style preference.) I'm considering looking at the prices elsewhere to see if other bakeries could be a reasonable substitute.

Now, there are still a few more things to consider - fruit? color? But, seeing as I have already written a thesis, that should probably be addressed at a later time.

Piboiva gives a good overview, but i would just add on nothing more than my personal preferences - variety, variety! You might find you have a particular go-to favorite (and it might vary between your fave for getting hit with; the feeling it gives you and your fave for pieing someone else-the look of them pied) but always free free to try different types - especially if you're throwing several pies. (Of course often when several pies are involved. one has to resort to different kinds anyway as a cost-cutter with cheaper alternatives thrown in among your preferences)

And many times, the type you use may be determined by your desired target...usually i love a good real pie but some people just have that certain kind of "shaving cream pie" look to them, or other times if they have a really nice upper body, i might want to go with whipped cream or something more liquidy so it drips down more on their chest/shoulders.

Always experiment and try something new as you never know when you'll discover a new favorite! Plus things can vary over time or quality can change due to brand - for example there's some really excellent and some not-that-great brands of shaving cream for pies. Also there used to be a great store-brought frozen pie called Pet Ritz- they used to be perfect for faces (it always struck me that for eating, they were cheap and so-so but for pieing, they were perfect!) - in fact the original Abs Pecs and Pies videos (the second and third one out of the original three) looked like they used lots of them. But they later changed the recipe/style and they became meh for throwing.

I think it's pretty simple: bake a frozen deep dish pie shell, fill it with Cool Whip, and simply slide the pie out of the pan for throwing. It's easy, relatively cheap, and when thrown looks like the quality of any famous TV or movie pie fight.