Let us all thank Allison Kave’s boyfriend who suggested she enter a Brooklyn, NY pie making contest – because she won and has been bringing us great pie ideas ever since. Her first book, First Prize Pies: Shoo-Fly, Candy Apple, and Other Deliciously Inventive Pies for Every Week of the Year (and More), gives us classics like her take on apple and black bottom pie, but also – wait for it – she also recommends building pie stacks. In one image she has a Toasted Coconut Cream right on top of a Pineapple Pie. Both pies are unmolded and you slice them like a layer cake! You get big mouthfuls of each pie in every bite! This alone is reason to buy the book. I snapped a pic (of the pic!) for you here below. I bet your mouth is watering…

I wasn’t the greatest Girl Scout. I didn’t get all the cool badges, and I don’t know much about building fires or constructing canoes, but I was an expert when it came to those cookies. My favorites by far were (and are) the Samoas – full of toasty coconut, gooey caramel, buttery shortbread and rich chocolate, they are heavenly. (Pro tip: They’re even better out of the freezer!) I knew I had to make a pie version of this perfect cookie, so the caramel (my favorite part) could be the star of the show. This is pure nostalgic goodness; no uniform required.

Excerpted from First Prize Pies by Allison Kave( Stewart, Tabori & Chang) Copyright 2014. Photographs by Tina Rupp.