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Baker Shows Before & After Pics Of Her Awesome Pie Crusts, And The Result Is Too Pretty To Eat
Autumn is here (in the northern hemisphere at least). As the nights draw in, the temperatures drop and we start thinking about upcoming events such as Halloween, Thanksgiving and Bonfire Night, we also begin to crave heartier, more filling food.
Enter the pie. The perfect receptacle for seasonal foods from the harvest, yummies such as pumpkin, apple, pear, fig and cranberry, the humble pie is a tasty and warming desert that is sure to impress your family and guests.
What better way to show off your creative culinary skills than a perfectly patterned pie for Thanksgiving? For inspiration look no further than artist and cook Karin Pfeiff Boschek, whose Instagram and website are chocked full of the most artfully intricate and delicious looking pie crust designs you’ve ever seen.
We at Bored Panda have helpfully compiled a list of our favorite of Karin’s designs. Crust us, they are sure to make you hungry! Occu-pie yourself for a few minutes by checking out the gorgeous pics below and vote for your favorite. These designs really prove that beauty is in the pie of the beholder.
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Beautiful! As someone who didn't grow up baking and eating pies, does anyone have suggestions on pie crusts? The crust in the pan isn't the problem (I think XD), but I always struggle with the top crust. Needless to say, mine never ever look as beautiful as any of these.
The best thing I have found is only adding a couple tablespoons of water at the time, that way it doesn't get so messy and you can work it in better. As for rolling it out, keep flipping the dough over and add a little new flour each time so it doesn't become sticky on either side and always rub a little flour onto the rolling pin so it glides easier. When you transfer it, gently wrap the dough around the rolling pin so you can slide it off as you're going over the pie. That way the weight is distributed a little better than if you were to just pick it up. And just for fun, if you want the top crust to be nice and golden, add just a bit of an egg wash to it before it goes in the oven =)
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Who wants to eat a pie that has no flaky butter filled fattening pie crust? I'll take a full coverage pie crust every time and leave these lifted little finger crowd.
I would love to know, just long it actually took, to make this beautiful pie, from start to finish? My gosh, it sure is beautiful sight! I've never seen one like this before.
Great as a house warming gift or to bring to a dinner party... well done👍
Beautiful design, and it should of had a thumb print, in the middle petal!
Cooking can be as much an art as any other art.
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they're all beautiful. must've taken quite a long time (and a very steady hand) for some/most of these... well done!!
No, but rather greatly inspired to express her artistic creativity in the baking venue. Great after baking pictures that show a talent for baking the pies to perfection while not getting the decorations too browned. Baking creates a "shading" of the decorations that creates deeper artistic value.
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i can't even bake a pie that doesn't end up a total mess....
I will eat all of this pies, they just look so beautiful and YUMMI!
nice, but over engineered. the purpose is to eat the pie with less guilt.
The "purpose"??? I didn't realize there was a purpose to it. Baking is an art and the "purpose" is whatever one makes of it. If someone chooses to create art from it as from every other food in the world then of course that is what it should be. The eye must be pleased as well as the tongue. It is all subjective naturally. I find them elegant and artful and not at all "over engineered" as they are simply pies. One does not "engineer" a pie. One creates a pretty pie crust as an art form. If one feels guilt by eating it because it's pretty, well, that's on them. Eat it. It's perishable. Enjoy it. No guilt. Pie is meant to be eaten. Guilt is within the partaker, not the maker.
Load More Replies... Cooking can be as much an art as any other art.
Load More Replies... they're all beautiful. must've taken quite a long time (and a very steady hand) for some/most of these... well done!!
No, but rather greatly inspired to express her artistic creativity in the baking venue. Great after baking pictures that show a talent for baking the pies to perfection while not getting the decorations too browned. Baking creates a "shading" of the decorations that creates deeper artistic value.
Load More Replies... i can't even bake a pie that doesn't end up a total mess....
I will eat all of this pies, they just look so beautiful and YUMMI!
nice, but over engineered. the purpose is to eat the pie with less guilt.
The "purpose"??? I didn't realize there was a purpose to it. Baking is an art and the "purpose" is whatever one makes of it. If someone chooses to create art from it as from every other food in the world then of course that is what it should be. The eye must be pleased as well as the tongue. It is all subjective naturally. I find them elegant and artful and not at all "over engineered" as they are simply pies. One does not "engineer" a pie. One creates a pretty pie crust as an art form. If one feels guilt by eating it because it's pretty, well, that's on them. Eat it. It's perishable. Enjoy it. No guilt. Pie is meant to be eaten. Guilt is within the partaker, not the maker.
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