A German baker has turned pie baking into a stunning masterpieces
There are a lot of talented bakers around the world.
There’s Duff Goldman, who owns the Baltimore-based bakery, Charm City Cakes, and creates the most imaginative and creative cakes.
There’s famous French pastry chef Florian Bellanger, Buddy Valastro of Carlo’s Bakery New Jersey, English celebrity chef Paul Hollywood, and Ron Ben-Israel, known for his sugar paste flowers.
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But you have never met or seen any baker like Karin Pfeiff Boschek.
This German baker is known for her beautiful pies.
Karin grew up in a family of bakers but, oddly enough, pie-making wasn’t her first love then.
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“As a child, I enjoyed seeing, smelling, and eating the breads and pastries that both of my grandmothers made. Baking was traditional in our family in rural Germany, and when I was a young teenager, I began baking cakes and pastries for my brother and sister,” Karin shared. “I did not become a baker, however, but became interested in fabrics, eventually designing, dyeing, and creating my own works of textile art.”
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She studied textile design and became a photographer before she discovered her talent for piemaking.
In fact, she only really learned the art of piemaking from her American mother-in-law. She realized she could probably apply her textile design background with creating pies. That’s when she began to experiment with pies.
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“I found that by cooling the dough while creating decorations, using a very thin, sharp knife such as a scalpel and working very precisely, it was possible to create ornate decorations that held their shape during baking,” Karin said.
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She uses different items to create shapes and different designs on the pie.
And she uses freeze-dried powders of berries, beets, spinach, and other colorful produce to give color to the pies.
“Pies can be very delicious, but they can also be adorned in an artistic manner so that they become the centerpiece of a dessert setting,” Karin wrote on their website, Our Delicious Food.
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Our Delicious Food is the food website she shares with her husband, Bruce.
Bruce is in charge of the cooking. And Karin takes care of the photos and the pies.
“A pie design can only be considered… a success if it looks good when baked. No one would set an unbaked pie in front of one’s guests… The proof of a design is in the baked product. Certain shapes and designs may look beautiful before baking, but melt or become distorted in the heat of the oven,” Karin wrote.
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Judging from her website and social media accounts, her pies have turned out really beautiful.
It’s not easy to create such beautiful pies. It takes her around two to six hours to assemble and design the pies.
“I love nature… Many of my designs come from time I spend in our garden with our German shepherd dog, Halgrim. I am inspired by trees, leaves, and vines but also by classical geometric patterns and quite mundane articles, such as gully lids,” Karin shared about her design process.
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Karin also released a book, Elegant Pie: Transform Your Pies Into Works Of Art, so anyone can learn how she makes her pies.
Want to see more of her creations? Watch the video below.
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