cream pie

See also: creampie

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cream pie (countable and uncountable, plural cream pies)

  1. (originally Canada, US) A pie, usually filled with fruit, topped with whipped cream.
    • 1993, Michael Wallis, Way Down Yonder in the Indian Nation: Writings from America’s Heartland, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 44:
      The young men and women slinging plate lunches and mammoth slices of cream pie on the tables recall the energetic waitresses from the good old days.
  2. A pie filled entirely with cream, used as a prop in slapstick films and television.
  3. A cookie (dessert) consisting of two soft cookies (especially oatmeal cookies) with a layer of creamy or marshmallowy filling in the middle.
    • 2013 July 10, Bianca Phillips, Cookin' Crunk: Eating Vegan in The Dirty South, Book Publishing Company, →ISBN:
      The best thing about cream pie cookies? You have permission to eat two cookies instead of one, since it takes two to make a proper sandwich. But now there's a new problem: limiting yourself to just one cream pie. Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cream Pies […] To make the cookies, […] To make the filling, […] To assemble the cream pies, spread about 1 tablespoon of buttercream filling on the flat (bottom) side of 1 cookie. Top with another cookie.
    • 2013 October 8, Monica Holland, Lick the Bowl Good: Classic Home-Style Desserts with a Twist, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
      ASSEMBLE THE CREAM PIES: Place about 1 to 2 tablespoons of filling on the underside of one cookie and top with an additional cookie.
  4. Alternative spelling of creampie.

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