Making homemade pastries like pie crust, biscuits, or croissants is a delicate process. To achieve that perfect flaky texture, you have to mix hard butter or another fat into flour to bind the dough ...

The humble pie has been given a makeover, fit for Instagram. A quick search of the hashtag “pieart” in Instagram reveals close to 7000 posts, featuring pies decorated with all kinds of pastry art.

There is no temperature dial, no app-enabled extra content, no Bluetooth egg wash function – but the results are good all the same The Hairy Bikers twin deep-fill pie maker (£19.99, robertdyas.co.uk) ...