Customer reviews

Lakeland Electric Pie Maker

Still experimenting with my new pie maker but successful so far. What would swing my rating to five stars is if there was a separate pie tray available to enable pies to be made in advance and frozen. Have tried this using a regular tart tray with some success but they are the wrong shape and therefore do not look as professional. I agree with Mr Buck that baking from cold is much better and I would add safer.

Published 13 May 2013

Lakeland Electric Pie Maker

I read all the reviews before buying and bought this as a Christmas present for a friend who had been making cakes for a while and had decided to move onto pastries. Unfortunately, no instructions on how to make pastry you need to buy shop bought. In the Corned beef potato and onion pie, it mentions two types of pastry but in the instructions only one is mentioned. It doesn't mention how thick the pies need to be. Not too sure if my machine was faulty but the green light never came on - is that normal?

Published 06 Mar 2013

Lakeland Electric Pie Maker

This would be useful to those who can't bend to a low oven. It takes little room and stores upright. I have made pies/tarts etc. with different pastry and fillings, open and closed with great success. It saves the fiddle of cutting larger ones to freeze. I have made Bakewell tarts and custard cakes with sweet scone pastry. Also tried giant Profiteroles!! that were a novelty looking like pies and filled them with icecream. And have more ideas to try. So there's more to it than pies. Ideal size for kids and adults lunch boxes, also picnics. It's sturdily built and I would recommend it.

Published 08 Feb 2013

Lakeland Electric Pie Maker

have just tried this for the first time...quite fun but i'm not sure whether its a good buy yet. i found the pies stuck to the lid when i opened it -has anyone else had this problem? maybe i was over cooking the pies... i only cooked them for 8-9 minutes but they seemed too brown.Also the instructions don't make it clear which instrument is used to tidy up the pastry before you close the lid to cook. i presumed it is the cutter for the pastry lid? and that was quite messy brushing oily pastry pieces off the edge.It would be nice to know how much filling each pie is meant to hold too.

Published 06 Feb 2013

Lakeland Electric Pie Maker

I love this pie maker! It makes perfect little pies, the pastry cooks perfectly. So far I have made turkey, stuffing and gravy pies, mince beef and onion and quiche lorraine, all cooked perfectly and gobbled up in record time by the whole family! My new favourite kitchen gadget!

Published 31 Jan 2013

Lakeland Electric Pie Maker

......WE DID! excellent 'pie'-ce of kit. Perfectly bakes goodies super quick....a real Lakeland star.

Published 01 Oct 2012

Lakeland Electric Pie Maker

I used this for the first time on Friday and it worked brilliantly - the pastry was cooked to perfection in about 10 minutes. However we did find that because the pies are quite small there was too much pastry to filling and wondered whether there are any plans to create a larger pie maker say for one full size pie? Would be very interested if one came onto the market.

Published 22 Aug 2012

Lakeland Electric Pie Maker

I ordered the pie maker on the spur of the moment, and then I wondered if I'd done the right thing. But knowing if I didn't like I would be able to return it made me feel confident that it would be OK....... Well I love it! I made just a couple of pies with ready to roll short crust pastry. They were delicious. I'm going to try my own pastry today but I'm sure they will turn out just as well. I told my sister how good it is and she has ordered one too. Well done Lakeland. It's a brilliant product.

Published 02 Aug 2012