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Apple cinnamon bread pudding ($6) with Fireball whiskey sauce is one of the many pies available.
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Mary Jayne Buckingham opened The Cutie Pie Wagon in 2009.
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‘Stu your pie hole’ at The Cutie Pie Wagon in Bastrop
Mary Jayne Buckingham won an apron on “MasterChef” for her peachy Key lime habanero pie ($6) .
recipe, entered the contest and won,” Bucking- ham said. “Betty Lou’s buttermilk pie has been appearing on the 1886 Cafe and Bakery’s menu for a number of years now.” Soon after the pie contest, Buckingham decided to open her own bakery—and The Cutie Pie Wagon was born in 2009. What makes it special Some of her awards include winning the National Pie Championship more than once and winning a white apron on MasterChef in 2020—making her one of the top 15 home chefs in America. Buckingham said she has overcome many hur- dles, but with the slogan “Stu Your Pie Hole,” her moxie shines through, and she comes out on top.
What started as a challenge between two colleagues has become a locally and nationally recognized pie business—with even the likes of chef Gordon Ramsay left licking his plate clean. How it happened “I was having lunch with my supervisor, and she made the comment that she makes the best butter- milk pie around,” said Mary Jayne Buckingham, owner of The Cutie Pie Wagon. “I looked at her and said, ‘No, you don’t, my momma does.’” Buckingham said her supervisor told her to put her money where her pie hole was, so to speak. She challenged Buckingham to enter an upcom- ing pie contest at The Driskill Hotel in Austin. “So I broke out my mom’s buttermilk pie
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