Putting Maple Apple Pie Crust In A Baking Pan

Video Transcript

"Hi! I'm Kip Bradford and I am here on behalf of Expert Village. This next step in making the crust for our Maple Apple Pie is to take the dough that we rolled and get it in to the pan. A lot times people have trouble with that because it tends to want to stick to the surface of the roller and the trick that I use is to simply take a spatula or other flat tool that I might find in my kitchen and start to roll the pie crust onto itself. This makes it much easier for me to handle and to put into my pie pan. Once I got it to this point, I am just ready to lift it and lay it back in the pie pan and then simply unroll it. With a pie crust, sometimes you have more on one side and a little bit less down here and it is a very easy thing to do once you get it settled in, is to take a paring knife and one, you will trim off the excess which comes off very easily. Then wherever you might need more dough, you could just take a scrap piece and kind of kind of smash it back in. Now some doughs hold better when you do that if you get the two surfaces you are going to combine a little bit moist. This particular recipe I never noticed that I had a problem just smashing it on in there and then once it is cooked, it seems to always be one piece. There we have it. "