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Recipe: Sour Cream Pie Crust

From the middle of May until the end of November, I'm a pie girl. I have to restrain myself from eating it at every meal since my mother trained me from a very early age that leftover pie is fair game...

Hot or Not? Individual Pie Slice Pans

We saw these individual pie slice pans at King Arthur Flour yesterday and we were both charmed and bemused. Individual pie slices - would you use these? ...

No-Bake Desserts: Two Recipes from Domino

We're contemplating a no-bake dessert this weekend, which is not difficult considering how much gorgeous fruit is available right now. Here are two recipes from Domino that take advantage of summer fr...

Thursday Giveaway: Emile Henry Pie Dish

Giveaway: 3 Emile Henry pie dishes Find it: Pie Dish, $40 at Emile Henry We just gave you a big long list of recipes, tips and tools for summer pies. Now we're giving away one of our favorite-ever pi...

Summer Pies! Strawberry, Rhubarb, Lavender & Blueberry

Fresh strawberries and blueberries, rhubarb, raspberry and lemon. It is high pie season! Summer pies are classics - have you baked one yet? We look forward to summer pies all year, and we're starting ...

Entertaining: Theme Parties and Pie Socials

NYC has just opened another "single food" restaurant. Totally Baked, serving only baked potatoes, joins restaurants like S'mac (only mac n' cheese), Peanut Butter and Co. (peanut butter creations), an...

Recipe: Blueberry Lavender Cream Pie

From our pie tip earlier and the photo of all those wild blueberries on Friday you might surmise that we dipped into pie-making again. And you would be correct - we made a pie, a very pretty violet pi...

Spring Recipe: Meyer Lemon Shaker Pie

Shaker lemon pie - what a pleasure! The virtue of Shaker pies, like their furniture, lies in simplicity and straightforward character. And simplicity is this pie's crowning glory: jammy, tart, sweet, ...

Recipe: Basic Pie Crust

Pastry and pie crusts all have roots in one basic recipe, but there are a myriad of tiny variations that bakers argue about endlessly. Butter, shortening, vodka - so many ways to tweak a pie crust! We...

In the Kitchen: Shaker Meyer Lemon Pie

Lemons - we love them. Kathryn asked today how to use up a bowl of fresh friend-gifted lemons, and coincidentally, we just made a Shaker Meyer Lemon pie. Like our Tart Lemon Tart, a Shaker Lemon Pie f...

Pies, Tarts, and Baking Tips and Goodies for Pi Day

So, as we mentioned yesterday, it's 3.14 - Pi Day! For all of you who graduated and promptly forgot any math not directly related to balancing a checkbook (well, maybe some of that too), here's a brie...

Baking Holiday: Celebrating Pi Day with Pie

Nerdy bakers have a particular reason to love March 14th. Tomorrow's date, 3/14, resembles the mathematical constant of pi (3.14159). And what better way to celebrate pi than to make pie? ...

Recipe: Tart Lemon Tart

Early summer seems perfect for lemon meringue pie, blowsy with airy meringue and easy to wolf down before a late afternoon nap. But here on the precipice of spring, when it's still cold outside and su...

Bittersweet Baking Honorable Mention: Best Bittersweet Story

Our Bittersweet Baking is over and the winners announced, but we just have to show you a few more entries. These are entrants that didn't make it to the finals but had something really outstanding. ...

Chocolate Pies for Pie Day

We were just reminded that today is National Pie Day, and since we are still trying to find the perfect chocolate pie we rounded up a few recipes on our must-try list. From left, Chocolate Cream P...

Flickr Find: Tiny Fruit Pies

Photo by Flickr member Zesmerelda These fruit pies are tiny and beautiful, and they would be very easy to make. All you would need is a batch of these Homemade Phyllo Cups and a fruit filling. We w...

Pies, Muffins, and Chicago Cooks: Nationwide Food Section Roundup

A special early-week food section roundup, where we round up what's happening in food sections from newspapers all over the country! This week: big cities and their January baking beat. In Washing...

Questions for Allie: Why Is My Pie Dough Shrinking?

Allie Lewis of Martha Stewart's Everyday Food asked for your holiday cooking questions. Here's the first of five questions Allie is answering for us - welcome to The Kitchn, Allie! Q: Despite not ov...