These 58 Pie Crust Designs By German Baker Are Pie-Fection (New Pics)

German baker and photographer Karin Pfeiff-Boschek takes pastry baking to a whole new level that is definitely close to pie-fection. She masterfully arranges dough and fruits into the most beautiful pie crust designs. Vibrant botanical and geometrical ornaments on top of delicious pies make them almost too pretty to eat.

Many people have started experimenting in the kitchen during quarantine, so here's a list that will truly challenge your skills and make your mouth water! And excuse us in advance for all the growls in your stomach this may cause. If you are still hungry, check out our previous post with more amazing pies.

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Karin Pfeiff-Boschek told Bored Panda that her journey with pastry started in childhood, but didn't evolve into a profession: "As a child, I enjoyed seeing, smelling, and eating the bread and pastries that both of my grandmothers made. Baking was traditional in our family in rural Germany and when I was a young teenager, I began baking cakes and pastries for my brother and sister."

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"In my twenties, I spent many summers in Paris and was fascinated by the beautiful baked goods in every pâtisserie on nearly every street corner. I did not become a baker, however, but became interested in fabrics, eventually designing, dyeing, and creating my own works of textile art. Nonetheless, I enjoyed baking, often experimenting with various doughs and batters."

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"My American-born husband learned to bake pies from his mother, a prize-winning pie baker and a very good cook. I thought the pies were delicious, but began to wonder whether one could decorate them in a manner similar to the way cakes are turned into works of art. This was just at the time that I opened an account on Instagram and I began uploading pictures of my attempts at pie decoration. To my surprise and delight, the comments were positive, resulting in a rapid rise in the number of followers of my account," says the artist, who now has an impressive number of over 90k followers on Instagram.

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If you think that these pies look straight out of recipe book pages—rightfully so. The artist has published a detailed guide on how to turn your favorite pies into edible works of art in her accurately-titled book "Elegant Pie." In this step-by-step book, Pfeiff-Boschek shares 25 of her best recipes and techniques to become a pie artist and carefully walks us through all the processes from the best tools and dough preparation to baking.

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This form of artistic expression both satisfies one's eyes and sweet tooth, and this is probably the reason the vibrant desserts with stunning designs have been a hit across social media. Bakers around the world take their craft to amazing levels, so if you like this, you might want to check out other sweet posts on Bored Panda, like stunning 3D illusions that are not what they seem by The Bakeking, creative cakes by Darci with a cute bonus in the form of doggos on cakes, and these beautiful "embroidered" cakes by Leslie Vigil.

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Esoteriko picks bold colour for only one room of Balmoral Blue House

Interiors studio Esoteriko has selected light colours and natural materials for every room in this house in Sydney, apart from one bright blue bedroom.

Esoteriko designed an entirely new layout for this property overlooking Balmoral Beach, making it as open-plan as possible.

A consistent palette of materials and finishes was chosen to help tie spaces together, including wood and stone, natural textiles, and shades of white and grey.

But studio founder and interior architect Anna Trefely decided to make one exception, letting the clients' teenage daughter pick blue – her favourite colour – for her own bedroom.

This blue room offers a striking contrast to the rest of the house, but one that very few visitors will see. It also gave the project its name, Balmoral Blue House.

Trefely describes it as "a moment of intensity, just for her".

Balmoral Blue House is home to a young family of three. It contains three storeys, although there was originally only one. The main floor was built in the 1920s, while the basement and first floor were added in the 1990s.

"What was left was rather confused and characterless," Trefely told Dezeen. "Though the house was large, the spaces felt awkward and even 'poky' at times."

With little worth saving, it made sense for Esoteriko to treat the interior as a blank canvas. A new open-plan layout was drawn up, designed to make the best of the light and impressive beach views.

"The outlook was jaw-dropping," continued Trefely.

"The view extends 180 degrees across harbour beaches, but frustratingly all the full height windows facing this outlook were covered over with heavy shutters, due to the incredible amount of heat that was being transferred through the under-performing glazing."

In the new layout, the ground floor plan is designed as a loop of connected indoor and outdoor spaces, including a large family living space, a generous kitchen, a grand hallway and a series of terraces.

There are four bedrooms on the first floor, including a master suite and the blue room. There's also a fifth bedroom on the basement level, along with a large living space that opens out to the deck.

Spaces are designed to combine the simplicity of Japanese design with references to the natural landscape of New South Wales, referencing the clients' former home in Asia and their new base in Australia.

Materials and furniture were sourced locally wherever possible, for instance, a kitchen island was made with a marble indigenous to North Queensland.

Other highlights including handcrafted rugs, ash wood joinery, russet-coloured curtains and a staircase with a textured stone base.

"We were inspired by the surrounding landscape; deep blues of the ocean and rich warm hues of the land," added Trefely.

The idea throughout was to make the house feel more "artful".

Paintings and sculptures are dotted through rooms, the majority of which are by females artists, including by Carol Crawford, Amanda Schunker, Krtistiina Haataja and Amy Wright.

Trefely founded Esoteriko in 2017. The studio was longlisted for a Dezeen Award last year for another of its projects, Shelter Double Bay.

Photography is by Dave Wheeler.

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