For Chad's birthday party I made him this quarter cake that had cake, cherry pie, pizza, and quiche. The picture explains it a lot better than I did. I had to figure out a way to keep the pie filling from spilling out onto the other foods so I came up with the calzone idea. It was actually pretty simple but the directions make it sound really complicated.
I made the pie crust then rolled out the dough into two circles according to the directions. Then I cut an edge off to make it into a crescent. I placed it in the pie tin as if it was the full crust so it hung just over the edges of the tin. I took one corner of the crescent and folded it over without letting it stick to the itself. This was the only tricky part. In order to fold over the other side and complete the calzone without making it too bulky on top I had to cut off the part of the dough that would have been sandwiched in between the two top layers of crust. I don't know if this makes any sense, sorry. Then I used two knives to hold up the top layers of crust while Chad poured the filling into the pouch. I closed it up over the filling and, like a normal pie crust, folded the edge over onto the top layer.
But then I didn't want the calzone portion to get filling on it from the rest of the pie so I put a layer of foil on both sides of my calzone portion and formed the rest of the pie crust dough around the calzone so the larger 3/4ths of the pie was separated from the calzone portion by a layer of foil and crust.
I'm sure there are other simpler ways to do this, but I was really proud of my idea and someday I am going to make four calzone pies in one pie pan. Its like having a personal pie.
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