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How to Make a Lattice Pie Crust

  1. Start by rolling out the first chilled pie dough disk and line your pie dish with it. Keep the second dough disk refrigerated until you are ready to make your lattice top.
  2. Lightly flour your work surface (I use re-used the parchment paper as a work surface because the dough peels off easily. Now roll out the dough for your lattice top. For a 9″ pie dish, roll it out to about 12″ in Diameter. This one doesn’t have to be quite as wide as the bottom layer, but you want enough to go over your pie dish’s rim.
  3. Cut the dough evenly into 1/2″-wide or 1″-wide strips (depending on the look you are going for). A pizza cutter makes this job way easier and more precise. You should get 10, 1-inch strips or 15, 1/2-inch strips.
  4. Spoon the filling into your prepared pie shell. This was a peach pie. Click here for the filling recipe. 5. Loosely lay out 7 strips of dough, parallel to each other, with about 1/2″ space in between each, over the top of the pie. Note: choose your strips based on the diameter needed. Don’t put your longest strips on the outer edges and keep in mind you’ll also need long strips when making the perpendicular lattice strips.
  5. Fold back every other strip. Place one long strip of dough down the center, perpendicular to the rest. Unfold the dough strips over this new strip. Next fold back the strips which are now running under the new strip and lay down the second strip of dough, keeping the spacing the same between the strips. Now unfold the strips again. Repeat step 5 until both sides of the pie are completed.
  6. Use Kitchen Shears (if you don’t have a good pair, invest in some. We use our Henckels Scissors ALL THE TIME!) to remove excess dough, leaving a small border so you can make a pretty border. Fold any excess dough up over the edge and crimp the dough with your fingers to get a nice seal. This post may contain affiliate links. Read my disclosure policy. You are officially a pie weaving pro. If you get confused, revert back to the pictures. I hope this tutorial helped! Do you make any unique designs on your pies?

Our Best Pie Recipes

We love making pies, everything from Classic Apple Pie to savory Chicken Pot Pie and our go-to pie crust for all of them has been our butter Pie Crust Recipe. Enjoy our all-time favorite pie recipes:

Blueberry PiePumpkin PieCherry PieDutch Apple PiePeach Pie

Credits: I learned how to weave a pie crust from the best: the Joy of Cooking cookbook and through the visual tutorial on Simplyrecipes.com.

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