World-renowned pie artist Jessica Leigh Clark-Bojin shares her easy, approachable, and never-before-seen pie-art techniques, delicious recipes, and 28 pie designs centered around holidays and life occasions.
Just four years ago, Jessica had only used her oven for baking polymer-clay figurines. She is now the "Queen of Pie Art" behind the popular Instagram account @thepieous and a Food Network and
Today Show pie judge, filling a niche for creating
next-level pie designs, including pietraits and piescrapers, influenced by her love of pop culture.
From
decorative patterns to more
elaborate themes, the pie designs in this book, ranging
from easy to difficult, for novice and experienced bakers alike, include
amazing looking and tasting pies to celebrate: - Birthdays (children and adults)
- Weddings
- Baby Showers
- New Year's Eve/Day
- Super Bowl
- Lunar New Year
- Black History Month
- Valentine's Day
- Pi Day
- St. Patrick's Day
- Easter
- Earth Day
- Mother's Day
- Father's Day
- 4th of July
- Bastille Day
- Diwali
- Halloween
- Day of the Dead
- Thanksgiving
- Hanukkah
- Christmas
Awesome Pies for Every Occasion also includes
step-by-step photos; tricks for working with your own tried-and-true dough recipes and store-bought dough;
modifications to personalize projects; and
online resources for printable templates, pie communities, friendly challenges, and more.
This celebration of pie is not just a book for bakers, but also pie fans, with its
gorgeous photography, fun and
friendly writing style, and acknowledgement of the reasons why we bake pies in the first place: to make the people we love happy, create memories with them, and bring everyone closer together.