Make Artificial Pies and Muffins

By

karensheart

Here's a recipe I have. I have homemade cinnamon ornaments and in this one I also have a recipe for these too if interested.
"Potpourri Pie"

2 cups all purpose flour
1 cup salt (not coarse)
1 cup water
1 9 " Aluminum Pie Pan Or you can use smaller ones too
dried beans or lentils
packaged or homemade potpourri

Create salt dough by mixing the flour and salt together first, and then adding the water all at once. Mix until combined. Sprinkle some flour out on your counter, and roll the salt dough just like you would a pie crust. (Store extra dough in a Ziploc bag, you'll need more to make the top latticework crust.) Using the pie pan as a guide, cut out a piece of dough to fit your tin. Press dough into the pan. Bake in a 150-200 degree oven until dough is completely dry, about an hour to an hour and a half.

Allow dough to dry completely before going on to the next step. Create a latticework top, by rolling out the dough and cutting equal size strips of dough.

Fill your dried dough shell with dried beans or lentils. This will hold the shape of your upper crust while it bakes dry. Then layer the top crust on, weaving the strips in and out to create a pretty lattice work effect. Attach to the bottom crust with some water, which will make it stick. Once again, bake in the oven until dry, for about an hour.

When completely dry, remove from oven and allow to cool. Dump out all of the beans or lentils and save in a special jar to use for this type of craft again. Fill you new "pie" with packaged potpourri, pushing it in through the spaces in the latticework top crust. And that's it!

Here's the recipe for salt dough which is used to make artificial pies, muffins, biscuits, etc.