Our Most Showstopping Pie Crust Designs and Tips on How to Recreate Them at Home

While this precise stenciled top crust looks complicated to recreate, it's actually an incredibly easy pie crust design to create using wooden popsicle sticks. They're arranged on top of the dough, which is then sprinkled with cinnamon sugar, leaving thin strips of dough untouched.

You'll need your braiding skills for this intricate pie crust design—strips of dough are weaved into three large fishtail braids, which decorate the circumference of this fall pie. As a finishing touch, cut out dozens of stars, snowflakes, and crescents from the pie dough.

Cookie cutters can be used to create serious magic, especially when it comes to creating a pie crust design that will wow. This version is made by stamping out 16 dazzling diamonds from a 13-inch round of pie dough and arranging them on top of a classic apple filling.

If you want to take your pie crust design up a notch, a woven lattice pattern is the pie topper for you. This particular version is created using both double and single strips of dough, which are laid on top of each other going diagonally across the top of the pie.

Create a spinner effect using classic pâte brisée just as we did on this sour cherry pie. Individual strips of pie dough are twisted, then set into a spiral design around and around the top of the pie. It creates a dizzying, dazzling pie crust design.

You don't need any special equipment to craft this peek-a-boo pie crust design, which is created by using a paring knife to make two-inch slits across the top of the dough.

While we certainly love creating a buttery pie crust by hand, using store-bought puff pastry is just as delicious (and so much easier!). Use a paring knife to create leaf-like formations in the dough, which will puff up and make the pie crust design even more pronounced as it bakes.

Whether you want to keep it simple with small circles or festive with hearts or stars based on the occasion, use a small decorative cookie cutter to create evenly spaced cutouts all around the top layer of dough. The finishing touch? Powdered sugar, of course!

Show off your stars and stripes with this trio of red, white, and blue pies. Each is topped with a pie crust design that is cut out with star cookie cutters or a small pastry wheel, depending on what design you fancy.

Instead of an intricately cut pie crust design, sprinkle part of the crumbly shortbread crust on top, mimicking a lattice pattern. It's an easy, no-fuss design to go along with this low-maintenance sheet-pan pie.

This pie crust design is one of the simpler styles on the list, but it's just as beautiful as its more detailed counterparts. Just cut five leaf-shaped vents in the top crust, insert a cinnamon stick in the center as a stem, freeze, and bake for an autumnal design.

Use a fluted cookie cutter to cut out as many rounds of pie dough as possible and scatter them—delicately, of course—all across the top of this juicy, slightly earthy berry pie.

Pecan pie is usually served unadorned with just a buttery layer of pie dough on the bottom. However, we decided to give our a fall spin by adding one dozen cut leaves across the top of the ooey-gooey-nutty.

Once you take a bite of this chocolate-sesame tart, you'll be instantly transported to France. The stunning pie crust is made by cutting the tart into 24 sections, then twisting each strip, which will puff up as the dessert bakes.

We can't imagine a more apt flavor combination for fall than pear and cranberry, so why not show the filling off by creating a handful of pear-shaped cutouts in the pie crust?