Blind Baking: Partial and Fully Blind Baking Pie Crusts

I bake you family I’m Emily and this ispipe dreams in this video I’m going toshow you how to blind bake pie showlet’s get startedso what is blind baking blank Becky iswhen you bake a pie shell partially orfully before you put the filling it whywould you want to do that well somerecipes like quiches and pumpkin piesthat have custard filling the fillingdoesn’t need that long to cook at leastnot as long as the pie dough needs tocook all the way so by blind baking webake the shell all by itself and itgives it a head start before we fill andfinish baking so how do we blind bakeour pie shells well once you’ve madeyour dough and rolled it out and chilledit you’re going to line it with atraditionally parchment paper or acoffee filter and fill it with pieweights which are little metal ballseither loose or attached to a string andthat will help your pie shell keep itsshape and prevent it from scrunching upand retracting in the oven what happensif you don’t have a giant commercialcoffee filter and a bunch of pie wayswell I’ve got a neat little trick foryou take a sheet of aluminum foil shinyside down press it gently into yourchill pie shell and if you don’t havepie weights you can fill the pie panwith rice or beans the thing is youwon’t be able to use those rice or beansafterwards and if you’re wanting to keepthose beans for a soup or a stewinstead take a small cake pan that’ssmaller than your pie shell make sureyou tuck the aluminum foil into thesides of the pie shell and now you’vegot a weighted down pie shell that’sready to be baked to blind bake our pieshell we’re going to bake our preparedshell in a 400 degree preheated oven for20 minutesyouall right at this point if I only wantto partially baked my pie meaning it’sgonna go back in the oven with itsfilling this is about a good time tostop it’s a if it’s been it’s baked butit’s not fully bakedyou can still see there’s some rawnessat the very bottom there’s not muchcolor around the edges either a littlebit over here but not much if you arewanting a full blind bake for somethinglike a fresh peach pie or a freshstrawberry pie where the crust is notgoing to continue to bake with thefilling then we’re gonna put this backin the oven for another five to tenminutes without our filling to hold itdown and get this completely cooked withlots of nice color since I’m gonna bemaking a fresh strawberry pie I’m gonnaput this back in the oven for fiveminutes at 400 degrees all right it’sbeen another five to seven minutes inthe oven and my pie shell is fully bakednow I’ve got some beautiful browningright along the edges of the crimp andeven some nice gold coming in inside thecrust on the base floor I’m not going tolet this cool all the way before Icontinue to use this to make a freshstrawberry pie now you know how topartially employee blind bake a pieshell check out my other recipes on howto make pie dough how to roll out piedough and other various delicious pierecipes please subscribe happy baking[Music]