You ought to have all the tools in your pie baking toolbelt you can manage. Blind baking and par-baking are tools for making ...

How do you do it? Let's get into it! Blind baking (sometimes called prebaking) means partially or fully baking a pie or tart ...

you might have found pie or even cheesecake recipes that tell you to blind bake your crust. Unfortunately, those recipes don't always explain what blind baking is, and rarely explain why it is ...

Line the crust with parchment paper or foil and fill with pie weights or dried beans to prevent puffing or slumping. Bake until the edges of the crust are very lightly golden, 18 to 22 minutes.

This German chocolate pie has all of the elements of the beloved cake (chocolate, pecans, and coconut), just in pie form. The ...

I made sweet-potato pie using three recipes from celebrity chefs Trisha Yearwood, Carla Hall, and Alton Brown to find the ...

How do you keep pumpkin pie from getting soggy? To avoid a soggy bottom crust, you must blind bake the pie shell until it’s golden and slightly crisp before adding the filling and baking.