Last fall, Karyn of the hotpotato blog did a writeup of the “cup pie revolution” for Serious Eats and posted her baking results on her own blog! Under the premise that not every person is a cupcake person, preferring pie to cake, she makes a sound argument for perpetuating the cup pie revolution!

Read more and get her recipe here: http://threepotato.blogspot.com/2007/11/mini-pies.html

Making cup pies is easier than one might think–just press your standard full-size pie recipe into a cup-sized tins, or even actual cups, and reduce bake times suitably. Really, the only big advantage cupcakes have over cup pies is the sheer amount of time it would take to press so many crusts, especially if you’re making double-crust pies! The cute and novelty factors may trump the cupcake’s ease of assembly, though, at least once in awhile.

Personally, I’d cheerfully endorse any cup-sized dessert!