We may earn a commission from links on this page. Baking a pie or tart is theoretically simple—filling goes in the crust, bake, and eat. But the devil is in the details, as they say, and one part of ...

I came in second place at the Yakima Herald-Republic's apple pie baking contest. Sigh. I'll share my recipe with you, anyway. You may not want to use it, of course. It's a loser, after all. Harvest ...

If you have started poking around at baking recipes, you might have found pie or even cheesecake recipes that tell you to blind bake your crust. Unfortunately, those recipes don't always explain what ...