Key Takeaways
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons inspired a fan to create a themed chicken pot pie.
- The pie resembles a human villager’s face with added details like Tom Nook and leaves.
- Fans have shared positive reactions to the cute, autumn-themed culinary creation.
One skillful baker who’s a fan of the Animal Crossing franchise has shown off their culinary artistry by crafting a roasted chicken pot pie that’s themed after Nintendo’s series, taking the shape of a human villager’s face. While there are more than 140 different cooking recipes in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, including multiple kinds of pie, pot pie is not on that list, so this fan had to get creative.
Animal Crossing and cooking go hand-in-hand. The franchise’ most recent mainline console-based game, Animal Crossing: New Horizons, launched in March 2020, and the 2.0 update from November 2021 added cooking recipes, bringing a welcome addition to the cozy village-building game and inspiring some real-world culinary creations.
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Reddit user moremousebite posted two images of their home-made pot pie, both before and after it came out of the oven. The autumn-themed pie utilizes its natural round shape to outline the face of a starry-eyed human Animal Crossing villager. Additional shapes added to the pie’s crust make up the character’s facial features, and its presentation even includes some additions like the face of Animal Crossing‘s constant landlord Tom Nook, a one-bell coin, and a variety of falling leaves that symbolize the seasonal nature of the pie.
Home Baker’s Animal Crossing-Themed Pie Draws Good Reactions
Reactions to the culinary creation have been positive, as multiple commenters have stated that it looks too cute to eat. Others have posted some creepy theories based on the pie, such as it being the fate of villagers who never pay back their loans to Tom Nook. There is no chicken pot pie cooking recipe in the games, likely because Animal Crossing games’ villager types have always included a variety of chicken villagers, but there are eight other types of pie that players can bake in New Horizons if they find the recipes. While the in-game fruit pies all feature a lattice crust or no top crust at all, the Sea-Bass pie features a stylized crust not too unlike this player’s creation, utilizing pieces of crust to form the shape of a fish at the baked treat’s center.
This isn’t the first time in recent memory that a fan has shared one of their culinary creations based on the cozy game series. Just before Halloween, another Animal Crossing fan made real-life Spooky Cookies, shaping and decorating them to look just like the craftable in-game item from Animal Crossing: New Horizons.
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