As a baker, seeing how your fruit pie turned out can be such a gut-wrenching moment. It's so disappointing to cut into a beautifully baked fruit pie just for the bottom to be a soggy mess. It's even ...

Whether you're making a brown butter salted maple pumpkin pie or easy Swedish apple pie, it's no secret that a soggy bottom is the bane of a baker's existence. A lot of the explanation lies in the ...

Bake in the middle of the oven for 30 minutes. Reduce the oven to 400 degrees and bake for 30 to 35 more minutes. If the crust and topping is browning to quickly, tent lightly with a foil. The pie is ...

Once baked, puff pastry becomes crispier and flakier than a regular pie crust due to its separate layers of butter and dough. These layers contain water, which turns into steam in the oven. This then ...

Metal pans are excellent conductors of heat, so they're perfect for cookies, cakes, and breads, where they can provide ...

Every time I bake a pie, the bottom crust does not get done. Do you have any tips or suggestions? There are a few strategies that will help create a crisp bottom for single- and double-crust pies.

A thin layer of crushed graham crackers under fruit filling keeps the pie crust from getting soggy. Graham crackers soak up juices, thicken the filling and add a warm, sweet flavor to every bite. This ...

My neighbors Dawn and José get special treatment when it comes to sampling new recipes coming out of my kitchen. Why? Because when I ask them for feedback on any samples, they take a formal approach.