{"id":3480,"date":"2019-03-01T16:59:52","date_gmt":"2019-03-02T00:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kawalingpinoy.com\/?p=3480"},"modified":"2021-08-25T20:26:53","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T03:26:53","slug":"mini-egg-pies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kawalingpinoy.com\/mini-egg-pies\/","title":{"rendered":"Mini Egg Pies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Mini Egg Pies with creamy custard filling and a super buttery crust are the ultimate snack or dessert. They are fun to eat and make a great party or on-the-go sweet treat. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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Before there was Kawaling Pinoy, my long-time dream was to have my own restaurant or catering services. Over the years, I thought of quitting my full-time job and taking the risky plunge, but the prospect of jumping into the water with both feet was daunting, especially with a dependent child still in college.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All I could do was take small steps and see where they brought me. I contacted a few restaurants, and Asian supermarkets in our area to offer my mini egg pies, leche flan<\/a>, and cassava cake<\/a> on a consignment basis and had a friend design a packaging label on Photoshop for my products.<\/p>\n\n\n

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I'd come home from work late in the afternoon, bake my goodies till dawn, and deliver them the next day before I went to work again. It was an exhausting one-person show but nonetheless exciting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you happened to be at a certain Asian supermarket in Carson, California mid-October of 2010 and saw a suspicious-looking woman taking pictures of their refrigerator, that would have been me. It was so surreal to see something I baked actually on the shelves for sale!<\/p>\n\n\n

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Unfortunately, after a year of sweating it out, I had to accept it was all but wishful thinking. Although the venture was successful on its own merits, it was too small-scaled to warrant hiring another pair of hands to help or to give up my job to focus on it a hundred percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But even if I don't sell these mini egg pies anymore, I still regularly make them for potlucks or gatherings. Conveniently bite-sized with a crust so crisp and flaky and a custard filling so smooth and velvety!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Give them a try and let me know in the comments if I could have been the next Sara Lee if I held on to the dream a little longer. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n

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