Baking Honey Pie

Asked by Tamsue. Answered on 22nd September 2020

Full question

The Honey Pie recipe calls for putting the pie on a preheated baking sheet. I keep a pizza stone in my oven at all times. Could I put the pie on the preheated pizza stone instead of the baking sheet, or would that be too much heat?

Honey Pie

By Nigella

Our answer

Nigella's Honey Pie (from SIMPLY NIGELLA) has a very easy to make press-in dough crust.The crust is not blind baked before the filling is added, so the pie is baked on a preheated baking sheet to make sure that heat gets to the base quickly and cooks the crust through by the tine the filling has set.

Metal baking sheets heat up quickly so if you put the baking sheet in the oven when you switch it on then it should be hot enough by the time the oven has heated. Pizza stones vary in thickness and composition, so may not be fully up to heat quickly enough and you may need to heat the pizza stone for slightly longer than the baking sheet to make sure that it is hot enough. You will hopefully have enough experience of using the pizza stone to know how long it needs to be heated for. We suspect that the pizza stone could be used to bake the pie as the dough is baked from frozen and fairly damp, so the risk of it burning is quite low. However as we have not made the pie ussing a pizza stone, we are unable to guarantee the results.