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Mike Nolan.Stunning!
How can you cut in to something that beautiful?
When I went to Chocolate School, several chefs were working on fancy desserts, their work would be on the table at lunch time, and there were a couple of them that nobody wanted to cut into because they were so artistic, but they wanted comments about their taste as well as their appearance.
That's amazing.
I like the 'eye' one with the blueberries in the middle. An interesting take on a lattice crust. I also like the black-and-white crust that I think is a lattice.
There's an all-butter dough recipe in the sample available on Amazon, it uses an egg and some vinegar
Her dough recipe is available in the sample on Amazon, it's an all-butter crust with some egg and vinegar, she also suggests using either carbonated water or water with a pinch of cream of tartar in it.
I think she uses an egg white 'glue' to get the pieces to lay flat while baking.
There are a few other books on pie art, but this one looks like it has great pictures, too bad they don't give a sample of any of the pages covering the designs so you can tell how doable they are.
Thats beautiful.
Those pies look amazing.
They are beautiful. I once or twice did small cut-out leaves using a press cookie cutter. However, the leaves tended to fall off when the pie was cut. I shall admire but not attempt to emulate her pie crusts and lovely decor.
I wonder if a little egg white would glue them down solidly?
That book does not appear to be in the Lincoln Public Library system's catalog.
She has a website with some of her pies, some with instructions, and more pictures, including some of them after they're baked. There was an Elegant Pie calendar a few years ago but doesn't appear to be one for 2024.
She builds the fancy tops on a round flat surface then freezes it before transferring it to the top of the pie. And she does glue the loose pieces down with a little egg white.
Welcome to the Amazing World of Artistically Decorated Pies by Karin Pfeiff-Boschek