For a festive pie, look to your cookie cutters! Whether you are celebrating Halloween, the first day of school, or a pie-lover’s birthday, you can use your chilled pie dough to create a decorative crust.
To make a decorative edge with cutout shapes, roll chilled dough scraps to â…›-inch thick. Use a lightly floured cutter to cut out the desired shapes and attach them to the dough edge using cold water or egg wash, pressing lightly to adhere.
Use one shape, overlapped slightly, or multiple shapes to create a collage around the edge of your pie.
Chill your dough well after adhering the shapes, since chilled dough better holds its shape when baking.
