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5 Ideas For Creating Beautiful Baked Treats

I love to bake pies, and beautiful baked treats are a feast for the eyes. Strawberry topped cheesecakes, lattice cherry pies, and braided bread loaves are incredibly visually appealing and irresistible, whetting the appetite while everyone excitedly waits to enjoy them. Here are some other wonderful ideas for beautiful baked treats from around the ‘net that have recently inspired me as I bake treats for my family during the autumn and for the holidays. If you find one you love, click on photo for the original post, recipe, and how-to directions.

Paula Deen shows us a variety of ways to create beautiful rims for pies, and this leaf trim just stuns me- how wonderful for autumn baking! Other ideas include two versions of ripples (pointing and scalloping), spoon pressing, a braided rim, and a checkerboard rim.

beautiful pie rims

Yummy filled cupcakes are a real treat, whether filled with cream, fruit, layers, anything. I never knew how to make them until I found a wonderful tutorial that shows several ways to fill up a cupcake, and I never even though of putting a little strawberry in there- how clever! You can also fill it up in layers so when the cupcake is bit into or cut open, you see a rainbow of flavors or colors inside.

filled cupcakes cream fruit

Here is a how-to for making a beautiful lattice top crust for a pie… that beautiful, old-fashioned checkerboard pie look perfect for picnics and bake sales, and reminiscent of the 50’s. I just love this lattice top design for pies! Wrap this beautiful pie in saran wrap with a pretty bow, and what a beautiful gift it would make for a neighbor or host, or to offer at a bake sale.

lattice top pie

The smell of baking bread is probably one of the coziest, most wonderful holiday scents, a fragrance that reminds me of my youth and when my grandma would bake fresh loaves of bread each week in her little kitchen. Here is a great tutorial on how to make a braided version (isn’t this beautiful?):

An incredible twist on the traditional apple pie…an apple dessert braid created and baked like a stuffed bread loaf. It’s visually appealing, delicious, and easy to make as well. The how-to shows step by step how to make this fragrant and tasty apple dessert.

braided apple pastry pie

The autumn is a great time of year to experiment with unique and creative baked treats. Golden brown breads and pie crusts evoke the beautiful colors of fall leaves, and the autumn season’s harvest of apples, pumpkin, cranberries, and more are an incredible source of deliciousness for all these baked goodies, so try these out and enjoy!




  • Allison

    I would say this is definitely an art you have mastered! I am jealous. Beautiful pastries. 🙂

  • Tammy

    The cupcakes look delicious.

  • Virginia from That Bald Chick

    Some of those are almost to pretty to eat… almost. LOL. They look yummy!

  • Curt

    These are some awesome how-to’s. I’ll pin a couple pictures so I can always come back to this. I really like the filled cupcakes one.

  • Crystal Reagan

    I recently made a cupcake with a cookie ball inside. It was delicious.

  • Everything is just beautiful! The leaves are fantastic!

  • Jessica

    This really puts me in the mood to bake!

  • Marcie W.

    I love lattice topped pies. Gorgeous!

  • monique

    That stuff looks delicious!

  • Shop with Me Mama (Kim)

    Oh wow, look at those perfect leaves! All of these are just beautifully done!!

  • such a delicious round up and that apple pie Ohhhh I want to eat it… dang I ment cherry pie but I couldn’ go back an correct my self UUUGH

  • I love the leaf trim on the pie crust … and I LOVE the idea of a strawberry in a cupcake. That would be awesome.

  • Mother Mayhem

    I think I just gained 10 pounds! Yummy ideas! Love the leaves for the fall pie!

  • Crystal

    I am going to try the leaf border on the pie crust…or something similar. Even if you do a store bought pie and then embellished it a little, it would make it look so much better!

  • I have no skills in this area lol. Those are beautiful baked treats!

  • Kelly

    These are all so beautiful! I can make good tasting food, but it’s not always visually pleasing. I really need to work on that

  • Donna

    I make cupcakes all the time, but have never made creme, fruit filled, etc. I need to do that, soon!

  • Joanne Cipressi

    These look absolutely delicious! The pie is making my mouth water. 🙂

  • Barbara Platt

    I am not into baking pies, but you do a great job

  • Courtney

    love these ideas!

  • Great tips! They all look like gorgeous desserts!