Pies & Tarts
Apple squares, peach cream pie, and orange cream pie offer different fillings within the pie and tart collection. Pastry and crumb bases provide structure while fruit, cream, or other ingredients shape the finished slice.
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Pastry Crusts
A pastry or crumb crust sets the foundation for its filling. Butter dough, chocolate crumb crust, and rough puff preparations offer different textures for pies and other baked dishes.
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Mississippi Mud Pie (aka Muddy Mississippi Cake)
Layers of crumbly cookie crust, rich chocolate cake, and creamy pudding make this Mississippi mud pie from Matt Lewis’s “Baked Explorations” cookbook the ultimate indulgence for chocolate lovers.…
Classic Egg Custard Pie with Lots of Nutmeg
Old-fashioned yet quietly innovative, this custard pie juxtaposes two ordinarily opposing forces — satisfyingly creamy and ethereally light — within a single filling. It’s also unsparing with the…
Flaky Pastry
This is somewhere between a rich traditional pie dough and puff pastry, and the traditional pastry for Eccles cake or Ecclefechan tart. It’s somewhat easier to make than…
Mile-High Lemon Meringue Pie
“I love anything with lemon, and this pie is that delicious combination of tart and sweet with a crispy crust. My mother made a great lemon meringue pie,…
Parmesan Cheese Twists
½ of a 17.3-ounce package Pepperidge Farm® Puff Pastry Sheets (1 sheet), thawed 1 egg 1 tablespoon water ¼ cup grated Parmesan cheese 1 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley…
Food Processor Quick Puff Pastry
Leave the frozen stuff on the shelf — chef Nick Malgieri’s fresh puff pastry pastry recipe is tasty and easy to make in your food processor. It appears…
Quick Puff Pastry
Use pastry chef Nick Malgieri’s easy puff pastry recipe from his cookbook “Bake! Essential Techniques for Perfect Baking.” 1¼ cups (2½ sticks) unsalted butter, chilled 2 cups all-purpose…
Rough Puff Pastry
Use this great recipe for rough puff pastry to make Olive Straws. 1 pound 2 ounces all-purpose flour, plus more for work surface 1 pound 2 ounces very…
Fast and Easy Puff Pastry
Wonderfully flaky, buttery, tender pastries, turnovers, cheese straws, elephant ears (palmiers), shells for savory fillings, and more can be yours with a minimum of effort. 1½ cups King…
Classic Puff Pastry Pate Feuilletee
The French call it “pate feuilletee,” which means “pastry made leaf-like.” In fact, it has so many “leaves” that it is also called “millefeuille,” meaning a thousand leaves.…
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