Gluten-Free & Vegan Pie: More than 50 Sweet and Savory Pies to Make at Home

by Jennifer Katzinger

Dig into this delicious collection of more than 55 gluten-free and vegan pie recipes that rival in taste any “regular” pie out there. Home-baked pie, fresh from the oven, is practically an American tradition. Who doesn't love it? But baking your favorite pies without dairy, eggs, gluten, or animal products calls for a different approach to both fillings and dough. Here you'll find techniques and tips for mixing and working with dough that doesn't contain butter or lard, and for luscious fillings that contain neither cream nor egg. With an emphasis on popular sweet pies such as banana cream pie, blueberry maple, pumpkin chiffon, and traditional apple, and with more than a dozen recipes for various kinds of pie crusts, this cookbook is a must for any pie lover, especially those with gluten-free or vegan diets.

Genres: Cookbooks, Food, Nonfiction, Vegan, Cooking

160 pages, Paperback

First published August 20, 2013

About the author

Jennifer Katzinger is the owner and co-founder of the Flying Apron Bakery in Seattle. She has been creating in the kitchen since she was knee-high. Her love of inventing recipes with lesser-known ingredients in the pursuit of delight and sustainability is what continues to drive her. Jennifer resides in Washington with her husband and daughter.

Reviews

[Sarah · Rating 4 out of 5]

Worth a look for the various crust recipes alone. All the recipes seem simple, and all focus on making the most of a few ingredients, so this is useful for pretty much anyone with any kind of food limitations-- there's almost no cane sugar in this book, and other natural sweeteners (honey, maple syrup) are kept to very small amounts.

I made one recipe from this book so far. The crust was awesome; the pie itself (the espresso chocolate tart) probably isn't something I'd make for myself again, but it was yummy enough to take to a potluck attended by people with food allergies-- it made a pretty big pie, so I left <1/2 at home and took the larger portion to work. I ate all the part that was at home, and the part at work disappeared in one afternoon.

[Punk · Rating 3 out of 5]

A nice cookbook with color photos for about a third of the recipes. It has a number of different pastry doughs and press-in crusts (with ground nuts), and covers sweet pies, free-form pies (like galettes), tarts, hand pies, cream pies, and savory pies, all gluten free and vegan.

And almost all of the crusts use coconut oil, and all the cream pies use coconut milk, and there isn't a single word about substitutions, so it's not for me. But it doesn't use a custom flour blend, so if you can tolerate coconut, rice flour, evaporated cane juice, tapioca, arrowroot and potato starch, then maybe you'll have better luck with this than I did.

[Jennie · Rating 2 out of 5]

I was really underwhelmed by this book and wanted to like it more.

Some of the Savoury Pies looked interesting but my soon to makes are:

Pumpkin Chiffon Pie

Raspberry Pie

Strawberry Hand Pies, much like I would make with my mom with jam as a kid with the last scraps of pastry.

Lovely pictures.

[Jaq · Rating 3 out of 5]

Again I am frustrated by the reliance on coconut oil in vegan recipes.....solid pie crusts here...

[Skunk · Rating 4 out of 5]

I wish this book contained more recipes for pie crusts

[Jeanette Durkin · Rating 1 out of 5]

Lots of great recipes!

[Larisa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another clear, concise book of delectable recipes. Chaussons aux Pommes and the Spring risotto torte will be appearing in my kitchen soon.

[Elizabeth Kovar · Rating 4 out of 5]

Easy to follow recipes & she shares some classic and innovative ideas.