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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All Buttah Pie Crust Dough
The name says it all — this dough is all butter, all the time. Allow plenty of time for chilling, and it’ll turn out crazy flaky. — Erin…
Oreo Pie Crust
Learn how to make this super simple Oreo pie crust in both baked and no bake versions. Use this homemade crust for cheesecake, pies, or other desserts. It…
French Silk Pie with Chocolate-Coffee (Grounds) Crust
This version of French Silk pie puts coffee grounds to use in two different ways: straight-up in a chocolate cookie crust, and more subtly infusing a whipped-cream topping.…
10-Minute Lime Cracker Pie
This icebox cake has the spirit of a Key lime pie and can be layered up in 10 minutes (if you’re not too precious about lining things neatly),…
Iron Skillet Apple Pie
Ingredients 1/2 cup butter 1 cup brown sugar 5 eaches Granny Smith apples — peeled, cored, quartered, and thinly sliced 3 (9 inch) refrigerated prerolled pie crusts 1…
Pie Dough Roses
Cut rolled pie dough into circles (LOTS of circles). You place four circles in a row on your work surface, with each circle slightly overlapping. The circles are…
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. Since this pastry…
Old-Fashioned Flaky Pie Dough
This is the sort of recipe pastry chefs tend to favor, but it doesn’t require any fancy ingredients, equipment, or training. Just smash some cold butter in a…
