How do you do it? Let's get into it! Blind baking (sometimes called prebaking) means partially or fully baking a pie or tart ...

Blind baking is just fancy talk for baking a pie crust before filling it. This technique is essential for pies that don't get baked at all (like a lemon meringue pie), but it's also very important ...

From stodgy dough to soggy bottoms, there are plenty of common pie crust mistakes and pitfalls lying in wait for the uninitiated. One of the most common stumbling blocks? Blind baking. Blind ...

As you peek around that list or peruse other pie recipes, including family heirlooms, you might notice a couple terms in the directions regarding that crust: blind bake and par-bake. These terms ...

None of the instructions called for blind baking (baking the crust before adding filling), so I didn't do so. The Pillsbury crust seemed simple to use. I bought the Pillsbury pie crust on sale for ...