Holiday Hacks: Turn a Marie Callender's Pie into an Edible Holiday Wreath
Are you ready for a fun and EASY holiday hack? How about turning a delicious Marie Callender's Pie into a festive treat in minutes? That's right, you can buy one of their pies in the freezer section, thaw in the fridge, decorate and serve up something totally fabulous for the holidays! I am participating in a Vibrant Influencer network campaign for Marie Callender’s. I am receiving a fee for posting; however, the opinions expressed in this post are my own. I am in no way affiliated with Marie Callender’s and do not earn a commission or percent of sales.
I love dessert, more than ever, really. But, I had never tried one of Marie Callender's Pies. Not sure how they slipped out from under my radar, but they did. Pulling a pie that tastes homemade out from the freezer? I wasn't sure how it all worked, but it's actually easy as "pie". Yep, I just went there. *wink* You can set your pie to thaw in the refrigerator. So, in other words... you can have pie anytime you want. Yeah! Yay for the magic of freezers! Yay for PIE anytime!
I wanted to make my pies extra festive for the holidays, so I went to check out what my pie options were. At first I thought Mint Chocolate Chip would be perfect! Which it would, but I couldn't get my hands on one. Next up, mouth watering flavors like "Coconut Cream Pie" and "I Love Chocolate Cream Pie".
And, we can't forget the Marie Callender's "Chocolate Satin Pie", which mind you IS NOT pictured here even thought I bought it. Yeah, temptation got the best of the hubs and I. We cut into it before I had a chance to add the holiday candies to it. A couple days later and that pie was history. I am really impressed with how delicious it was.
Soooo, I had to go back to the store. Sure did. That's when I spotted the "I Love Chocolate Cream Pie" and thought we really needed to try that one too.
Want to hack your holiday and make things easy for you? That's without sacrificing the taste of homemade either!
Turn a Pie into an Edible Holiday Wreath
Head to the store and stock up on Marie Callender Pies. Choose festive edible decor, here are the goodies I picked up:
* Fruit Leather - for making bows. I used scissors and pinched my bow together to make it stay put.
* Gum Drops & Fruit Slices in green and red for mini wreaths and decor
* Sixlets red and green candy for "ornaments"
* Festive sprinkles
* Icing Decorations. I found the adorable holiday lights at Walmart (along with my yummy pies!)
Secrets worth savoring: Voila! Now you can come up with your own fun creation. Nobody has to know about your pie shortcut! Do yourself a favor this holiday season and save yourself some time!
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Tell me, which Marie Callender's Pie would you try first?
What a clever idea. Great shortcut when you're in a pinch. Happy holidays! Hugs
You are so crafty!! I love the wreath pie and think it is something I could pull off. Pretty and edible. sounds good to me!
Love this! I participated in this campaign also! Had fun with it. 🙂 Thanks for sharing with Sunday Features!
This is a great idea! You are so creative and your pie turned out so beautifully decorated.
Super fun and festive! I'm actually heading to the store right now to grab a pre-made dessert and I might try this!
What a neat idea! The other day I realized I wasn't going to have time for extra-fancy baking this Christmas, but with your wreath pie idea, at least I can have a festive table. Thanks!
I love that you turned something store bought into your own creation. Very nice dawn - it looks delicious!
Ok, you're amazingly creative! I just hosted a pot pie party, and this would have been perfect!
Ooh pot pie party? That sounds like a FUN time!! 😉
What a cute idea! Such an easy holiday dessert!
I love your idea for decorating these pies and I think I am going to do that this year. My family will love it and think it is festive for sure.
Marie Callender has some amazing products. I am loving your wreath decor. What a neat way to turn a boxed item into something special.
These are such cute ideas! They really do like the most tasty and colorful wreaths!
This is so cute and so festive! What a fabulous idea. I love it, those pies are so good too so way to spruce them up for the Holidays!
That is a festive treat. Love it a lot.
I so want to do this. What's fruit leather? I may need to call you and have you walk me through this- LOL I don't bake so if I could decorate only- it's a win
This is such a cute idea! Next time I bring a pre-made pie to the holidays, I'm going to do it up like this.
This is such a cute idea. I will have to do this for my Christmas party with the girl's.
That looks so beautiful! I'd love to do this on a chocolate satin pie.
That is the cutest idea! What a fun way to add some extra flare to a pie without all the time invested in baking one!
You did such a festive decoration on those pies! I love anything that is simple and easy to do! I'm sure it tastes delish!
That is so cute. I would feel horrible cutting into it but the delicious pie would definitely be worth it.
Gosh that looks so delicious. I love how you decorated it!
I love Marie Callender’s pies anyways, but now this makes me like them even more. What a fun idea.