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Bake a Chem-Apple Pie
 This pie smells and tastes like an apple pie, but there are no apples in the recipe. Get ready to trick your taste buds with this yummy science experiment.
What You Need
Electric mixer or whisk
2 mixing bowls
4 egg whites
250 mL (1 cup) sugar
5 mL (1 teaspoon) vanilla
25 unsalted soda crackers
5 mL (1 teaspoon) baking powder
Cinnamon
Pre-made pie crust (frozen or homemade)
What to Do
1. Pre-bake the pie crust.
2. Pre-heat the oven to 175ΊC (350ΊF).
3. Use the mixer or whisk to beat the egg whites until fluffy. Add the vanilla.
4. In another bowl, break the crackers into small pieces. Add the sugar and baking powder.
5. Gently mix the cracker-sugar mixture into the eggs.
6. Pour into the pie crust. Sprinkle with cinnamon.
7. Bake for 20 minutes or until browned.
8. Cool and enjoy eating your experiment.
How it Works
The flavour of food is actually a mixture of taste and odour (smell). When you eat something, your brain translates the odour and taste into a particular flavour. All foods, including apples and crackers, are simply a mixture of chemicals. By themselves, the pie ingredients do not taste like apple pie. But when you mix and bake them, they do. The cooked crackers also trick our brain to think apple pie because they have a texture similar to cooked apples.
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