Handheld Pies: Dozens of Pint-Size Sweets and Savories

"Too darn cute to pass up. Half-pint-sized lemon meringue pies. Orange marmalade pop-tarts. Man, everything really is cuter when it's bite-sized." — Sauce Magazine What's better than small treats? Eating with your hands! This enticing cookbook delivers on both counts in one adorable package. Pie-lovers everywhere will be thrilled to find their favorite recipes plus fabulous new creations. Savory pies also make an appearance: grab a Bacon, Egg, and Cheese Breakfast Pie on the way out the door in the morning! Ideal for beginning and seasoned bakers alike (a chapter on crusts offers all the instruction anyone needs to make delicious, flaky pastry with ease!), Handheld Pies proves that good things definitely come in small packages. "This book continues to ride and perhaps push along the trend of cute li'l desserts . . . [Billingsley] and Handheld Pies do their best to hold readers' hands through the process, with plenty of tips in the chapter, 'Equipment, Ingredients, and Techniques.'" — Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "Umm . . . Pies? In my hand? Sold. Tiny treats in any form are hard for me to resist. And so was this cover. The book is divided into freeform pies, structured pies and jar pies. Too cute." — Bakerella "What s better than small treats? Eating with your hands! This enticing cookbook delivers on both counts in one adorable package. Pie-lovers everywhere will be thrilled to find their favorite recipes plus fabulous new creations. Savory pies also make an appearance: grab a Bacon, Egg, and Cheese Breakfast Pie on the way out the door in the morning! Ideal for beginning and seasoned bakers alike (a chapter on crusts offers all the instruction anyone needs to make delicious, flaky pastry with ease!), Handheld Pies proves that good things definitely come in small packages"-- "40 recipes for little sweet and savory pies that can be eaten out of hand (turnover-like freeform pies, fried pies, pies in tiny jars, homemade pop tarts, and pies made with a pie press/mold). Organized by crust, filling, and technique to encourage mixing and matching, plenty of suggested variations and combinations will make this feel rich in recipes, a la Whoopie Pies. Interspersed throughout the recipes are 8 to 10 profiles of great hand-held pie makers from across North America and the UK to ground a whimsical subject in pie personalities"-- 40 recipes for little sweet and savory pies that can be eaten out of hand (turnover-like freeform pies, fried pies, pies in tiny jars, homemade pop tarts, and pies made with a pie press/mold). Organized by crust, filling, and technique to encourage mixing and matching, plenty of suggested variations and combinations will make this feel rich in recipes, a la Whoopie Pies. Interspersed throughout the recipes are 8 to 10 profiles of great hand-held pie makers from across North America and the UK to ground a whimsical subject in pie personalities. List of Profiles: Hubig's, New Orleans, LA 4 & 20 Blackbirds, Brooklyn, NY Grand Traverse Pie Company, Grand Traverse, Michigan Bittersweet Bakery, St. Louis, Missouri The Original Fried Pie Shop, Davis, Oklahoma Oh My! Fried Pies, Houston, Texas Lasyone's, Central Louisiana West Cornwall Pastry Company, London "40 recipes for little sweet and savory pies that can be eaten out of hand (turnover-like freeform pies, fried pies, pies in tiny jars, homemade pop tarts, and pies made with a pie press/mold). Organized by crust, filling, and technique to encourage mixing and matching, plenty of suggested variations and combinations will make this feel rich in recipes, a la Whoopie Pies. Interspersed throughout the recipes are 8 to 10 profiles of great hand-held pie makers from across North America and the UK to ground a whimsical subject in pie personalities"-- Provided by publisher