Homemade pies are delicious but notoriously tricky, mostly because of the crust. Fortunately, baking the crust upside down ...

A premade pie crust is one of those baking shortcuts that I rely on during the Thanksgiving cooking marathon. I've spent years mastering my grandmother's all-butter crust recipe, and it's the one I ...

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 blind baking before, its a method where you bake a crust without the pie or ...

Allie has been Lifehacker’s Food Writer since 2021. She earned her bachelor’s degree at Ithaca College in drama and studied at the Institute of Culinary Education to earn her diploma in Pastry and ...

America's Test Kitchen’s ATK Cooking School demonstrates how to blind bake a tart shell for crisp pastry bases.

Blind baking, or pre-baking a crust, is common when you are using a filling in the pie shell that does not need to be baked, or that bakes up quickly. Both flaky pie and short tart crusts need to be ...