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16 Intricate Pie Crusts That Are (Almost) Too Pretty to Eat

Weave, crimp and braid your way to the prettiest pie crust with these buttery masterpieces as your inspiration.

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Intricate pie crusts: peach pie with alphabet crust topping

Would you guess this is a peach pie? Photo, Jo Harrington @jojoromancer.

Summer’s bounty of amazing produce—including picture-perfect peaches, vibrant blueberries, raspberries, cherries, juicy plums and nectarines—creates the perfect storm for pie-making. But just like summer, time is ticking away on this scrumptious selection, so now is the time to get baking.

With a smooth and easy-to-work-with dough on hand, the possibilities are nearly endless; braided pastry edges, lattice-woven pie crust and prettily crimped edges are just the beginning. To get your creative juices flowing we’ve created a collection of our favourite IG-worthy pie lattices.

Pastry petals

decorative pie crusts: leaf border with flower cut outs

(Photo, @karinpfeiffboschek/ Instagram)

Weaves and leaves

decorative pie crusts: braided border with leaves in centre

(Photo, @julie_jonesuk/Instagram)

Stone fruit stunner

decorative pie crusts: nectarine tart with pastry leaves

(Photo, @julie_jonesuk/ Instagram)

Fancy florals

decorative pie crusts: pit crust with flower cut outs

(Photo, @karinpfeiffboschek/ Instagram)

Woven wonder

decorative pie crusts: herringbone lattice pie crust

(Photo, @julie_jonesuk/ Instagram)

Tangled tart

decorative pie crusts: strawberry pie with vines and leaves around edge

(Photo, @thepieaddict/Instagram)

Summer-y slab pie

decorative pie crusts: slab pie with flower cut outs

(Photo, @jojoromancer/ Instagram)

Peachy keen

decorative pie crusts: peach pie with letter cut outs and braided edge

(Photo, @jojoromancer/ Instagram)

Cute cut-outs

decorative pie crusts: plum pie with leaves and flowers around edge of pie with flower cut outs in middle

(Photo, @steveandandys/ Instagram)

Sophisticated roses

decorative pie crusts: pie with pastry roses in centre with leaf border

(Photo, @thekitchenmccabe/ Instagram)

Daisy chains

decorative pie crusts: pastry daisies around border of pie crust

(Photo, @thekitchenmccabe/ Instagram)

Braided beauty

decorative pie crusts: rows of braided pastry along circumference of pie with pastry leaves in the centre

(Photo, @elleventy/ Instagram)

An intricate bouquet

decorative pie crusts: pie with apple flowers and pastry in the shape of a bow

(Photo, @maki_zuhause/ Instagram)

Delicate details

decorative pie crusts: braided pastry along border and woven lattice with thin stripes in centre

(Photo, @elleventy/ Instagram)

Pie in bloom

decorative pie crusts: pie with braided pastry along border and flower cut outs in centre
(Photo, @jojoromancer/Instagram)

Magnificent mini pies

pie crusts: six small pies with butterfly cut outs and braided borders

(Photo, @julie_jonesuk/ Instagram)

Originally published in 2018; updated in 2021.

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