PSA: Save your pie dough trimmings! You can transform them into decorative, tasty cookies with which to adorn many a holiday pie. Find step-by-step instructions below.

A squash pie decorated with pie crust cookies.

In her cookbook Weeknight Baking: Recipes to Fit Your Schedule, Michelle Lopez shares a brilliant tip for making a prettier pie: Pie Crust Cookies! Simply roll out the pie dough trimmings, cut them, chill, and bake. Decorate your cooked pie as you wish.

Following Michelle’s tips, my favorite Thanksgiving pie — Butternut Squash Pie (AKA The Best Pumpkin Pie) — has never looked so good.

Would you agree?
Two squash pies, one decorated, one plain.

How to Make Pie Crust Cookies, Step by Step

Roll out pie dough trimmings. Stamp out shapes. These stamped leaf cookie cutters are fun.

Leftover pie dough rolled out and cut out with leaf and turkey cookie cutters.A set of stamped leaf cookie cutters.

Transfer cutouts to parchment-lined baking sheet. Chill for 1 hour.

A sheet pan lined with parchment paper topped with unbaked pie cookies.

Bake at 350ºF for 20 to 25 minutes or until lightly golden. (How ’bout those turkeys? 🤣 I suggest sticking to leaves.)

A sheet pan lined with parchment paper topped with baked pie cookies.

Decorate the baked pie as you wish.

A pumpkin pie decorated with pie cookies.


A slice of pumpkin pie on a plate with whipped cream.

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Pie Crust Cookies

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PSA: Save your pie dough trimmings! You can transform them into decorative, tasty cookies with which to adorn many a holiday pie. Find step-by-step instructions below.

Recipe from Michelle Lopez’s: Weeknight Baking: Recipes to Fit Your Schedule.

If you’re looking for a pie dough recipe, this is my favorite: All-Purpose Pie Dough

For especially pretty looking pie crust cookies, this set works beautifully.

Ingredients

  • pie dough trimmings
  • flour

Instructions

  1. On a floured work surface, roll out the pie dough trimmings to a thickness of 1/4 inch (or thinner — I prefer rolling the dough as thinly as possible now, which makes for a more delicate cookie). Use a floured cookie cutter to stamp out shapes. Place on a parchment-lined baking sheet. Freeze for 1 hour.
  2. Heat oven to 350ºF.
  3. Transfer baking sheet to oven and bake for 15 to 25 minutes (depending on the thickness of the cookie), or until golden brown. Let cool completely before arranging on top of your finished pie.
  • Prep Time: 15 minutes
  • Cook Time: 20 to 25 minutes
  • Category: Cookies
  • Method: Oven
  • Cuisine: American