The Essential Pie Cookbook: 50 Sweet & Savory Recipes

Bake up sweet and savory pies at home with simple recipes

Few things bring people together like a freshly baked pie, whether you're whipping one up for a family celebration or a date-night treat. No matter your baking skill level, this cookbook makes it easy to create your favorite pies with a collection of tried-and-true recipes for everything from savory pies to fruit pies, nut pies, chocolate pies, and more.

This book of pies includes:

• Pie-baking 101―Learn about essential pie-baking equipment, how to properly execute techniques like cutting in butter and transferring dough to a pie plate, how to beautify your pies, and more.
• Classic and contemporary flavors―Explore a creative range of delightful pies, from the ones you know and love (like All-American Apple Pie) to those destined to become new favorites (like Salted Honey Pie).
• A variety of homemade crusts―Skip store-bought doughs with 6 simple recipes for tasty crusts you can make at home, including an all-butter crust, gluten-free crust, and cookie crust.

Make bakery-quality pies at home with The Essential Pie Cookbook.

SAURA KLINE is a professional pastry chef, dessert blogger, and cookbook author. She is currently the executive pastry chef for the Kevin Taylor Restaurant Group, where she creates menus and pastries. Saura is the author of Easy as Pie and shares her favorite recipes on SweetSaura.