Pretty Pies and Pie Crusts

Pies are just about the easiest things to dress up, about a million times easier than a cake, and tell me who doesn't like extra crust with their pie. 

Actually, don't answer that.  Because I will have to judge you if you don't like pie crust.

Here are some fun ideas for dressing up your Thanksgiving pie!

Country Living:

A little sugar dusing makes it even prettier!

Martha Stewart is always full of beautiful ideas:

I like this idea from Take A Megabite too:

You can use leafs cut outs, or you can use the dough you cut the leaves out of:

And if you aren't a pretty pie crust crimper, you can ditch it all together and use one of Paula Deen's sneaky tricks:

There are about a million ways to dress up your pie.  What is your pretty pie trick?

Rugelach

I saw a recipe for Rugelach on Bakers Banter yesterday.  I had never heard of Rugelach, but it is a traditional Jewish baked good:

It is made with a yeast dough that has sour cream in it.  You can get the recipe HERE, but what I want to know is why I never though to make cinnamon rolls this way?  The best part of the cinnamon roll is the center, and this about triples the surface area of that 'center'.

I am pretty sure I am going to give this a shot!