No, blind baking isn't a party trick where you bake a cake with your eyes covered. It's actually an important step on the ...

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.

From sticky dough to a soggy bottom, here are five common pie-making problems and how to fix them so your crust turns out ...

As the late writer Nora Ephron once said, “There’s no point in making pie ... bake package directions. While this may seem unusual, we wanted our testers to evaluate the flavor of the crust ...

Even thickened juices can sog up a crust. If you are making a custard pie of any kind (like pumpkin!) please blind bake your ...

We then performed the same blind baking test with homemade, all-butter pie dough (using Erin McDowell’s Perfect Pie Crust recipe) to learn how evenly each dish could bake a more finicky ...

Though the pie crust rolled out easily and looked flawless ... around those areas but they were still there even after a blind bake. I had to hope the filling would be thick enough to not seep ...