ready to go blind baked pie shell

Blind Baked Pie Crust

Making pumpkin, sweet potato or pecan pie for Thanksgiving?  Then it's time to learn how to Blind Bake a Crust. If you love a flaky, non soggy crust with your pumpkin or pecan pie then blind baking is for you. If you’ve never heard of

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mixed berry sour cream pie

Mixed Berry Sour Cream Pie

Last week I interviewed Zoe Nathan about her new book Huckleberry.  Of course one of the topics of our conversation was Pie.  She talked about how much she loves a messy pie.  So of course I had to make one.  I love when professional bakers

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Hjónabandssæla or Icelandic Blissful Marriage "Cake"

Blissful Marriage Cake

Everywhere I travel I try to find a Pie tied to the local culture.  In Iceland the closest I could get to pie is Hjonabandsaela, Blissful (or Happy) Marriage Cake.  The lore regarding the origin of the name has been lost.  But in a way that’s

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