Blue-ribbon-winning recipes and baking secrets from America’s reigning pie-baking champion

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Recipes include:Country Apple • Blueberry-Blackberry • Sour Cherry Crunch

Pumpkin Maple Pecan Streusel • Chocolate Peanut Butter Dream

Coffee Heath Bar Crunch • Ultimate Banana Split • Sausage

and Provolone Quiche • Lobster Pot Pie • Twisted Citrus Blackberry

Pie (shown on cover)

With nearly 30 gorgeous color photos throughout, this is a treat for all pie lovers—from weekend bakers to seasoned pastry chefs.

Packed with more than 80 delicious recipes, Perfect Pies will be

organized by chapter—Crusts and Crumb Toppings, Fruit Pies,

Nut Pies, Cream Pies, Party Pies, Savory Pies, Cherry on Top—

and includes mouth-watering sweet and savory favorites.

Award-winning baker Michele Stuart—owner of Michele’s Pies, home of “one of the best pies in America” (Good Morning America)—divulges all her techniques for flaky, buttery crusts and luscious fillings throughout the pages of her debut cookbook.

On sale September

6, 2011

See reverse for sample pages

perfect pies

T BALLANTINE BOOKS | www.MichelesPies.comThe Random House Publishing Group

On sale September 6, 2011 in Ballantine Books Hardcover and eBook

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THE BEST SWEET AND SAVORY RECIPES FROM AMERICA’S PIE-BAKING CHAMPION

by MICHELE STUART