This Sam's Club Pinterest hack involves taking a 2-inch, circle-shaped cookie cutter and cutting round pieces out of your pie, then plating them up as mini-pies with whipped cream. These are cute and delicious, but sadly lacking in side crust — plus, this tip turns a dessert that serves eight into one that serves maybe four. (Sam's Club marketers, those jokers, suggests it feeds 32, but only if your guests hate pumpkin pie or you buy four pies.)
What's more, the procedure leaves a moon-crater mess behind. So, why would you want to miniaturize your pie? If you want a less wasteful way to carve up Sam's Club's pumpkin pie, you might want to try square-cutting it like a Midwestern thin-crust pizza. You'll still get odd-shaped corner pieces, but they'd at least be better than a pie full of holes. Or how about cutting your pie into triangles, like... pieces of pie? (Hey, geometry knows best, as wedges really are the only way to evenly divide a circle.)
So, why would Sam's Club want to go and complicate things? Oh wait... it's so sneaky, it's actually genius! If you cut little circles out of your pie, no one can ask for leftovers! The hole-filled remainder isn't fit for company, after all, meaning you'll have no choice but to eat all the yummy leftovers yourself. Well played, Sam's — that pie hack may be a game-changer this Thanksgiving, after all.
