Making Felt Dollhouse Pie
Bottle cap pie tin, felt and bead berries
We are baking bottle cap pies! Bottlecaps came from the human household recycling box; then we dug around in the felt scrap bag and found Berry, Lime, and Pumpkin filling; and a nice baked crust; and a few whipped cream possibilities, and berry beads. Hot-melt glue for sticking…threads for stitching, and a useful coin for squishing and moulding into shape…finally a steam iron, or kettle spout is useful for steaming.
The coin needs to be able to fit inside the bottlecap – We’ve used a Canadian 25 cent piece, but a US quarter would work, as would a 1 Euro coin or an old English shilling!
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Cut out crust
First cut out the crust…make a circle a little bigger than the diameter of the bottle cap…
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Glue sides and base of bottlecap
…run a dollop of glue in the base and sides of the bottle cap, and squish the crust into the cap with the coin, trim the crust to the edge of the pie tin, and remove the coin.
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Two Crust Pie
For a two-crust pie, fill the pie with a little stuffing, add a top crust (scallop the edges of a small circle of felt by hand or with shears, stitch in place). Pop it into the oven to cook…
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Pumpkin filling
For a one-crust pie cut a circle of filling about 3 mm (an eighth-inch) bigger than the coin.
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Running Stitch
Thread your needle with any colour thread, knot it and make a running stitch all round the felt filling…
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Pull threads up
…pull the thread up tightly, and do a few extra stitches across the back to help hold the shape.
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Steam
Steam both sides and leave the felt to cool and dry (it really needs to be wool felt for the steaming to work properly).
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stuff
Cut the gathering threads and pull out the coin…tuck a bit of stuffing into the gap – I’ve used some snippets of felt as stuffing – this is the pumpkin pie.
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whipping cream and berries
Now decorate the pie: for the berry pie I used felt whipped cream and seed berries but…
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scalloped whipped cream
…the woven felt didn’t look quite whipped-creamy enough so we cut a strip of whipped cream using my scalloping shears.
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Berry Cream Pie!
That’s better!
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Handspun Whipped cream
On the Pumpkin Pie I dotted some white glue on the surface and sprinkled nutmeg on top, then stitched some hand spun yarn into place for “whipping cream”.
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Raspberry cream, Apple and Pumpkin
Voilà – Pies!!
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Safe from pets and pests
The cats were interested in the pies with cream…but into the Pie Safe they go until Sunday dinner!
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Quimper Hittys 
Gosh, delicious-looking pies, and the bottle caps are inspired!
We haven’t tried a meat pie yet…perhaps you could send a recipe!
Hmmm, let’s see… Steak & kidney, lamb & rosemary, chicken & thyme, steak & ale, rabbit & juniper. Meat pies, mmmmmmmm!
mmm – I’ll get right on it…the juniper berries are just fruiting now, I wonder where we can get a rabbit!?
We have a local butcher who sells all kinds of ‘exotic’ meats, from the humble rabbit through goat, kangaroo and emu, to crocodile if that should take your fancy. I don’t recommend the latter, it’s rather dry and needs careful cooking!
The dolls will be delighted with such creative and deliciously tempting look pies placed before them.
They very well might be tempted…perhaps there needs to be a lock on the “Pie Safe”. Willa and Jane are hoping there won’t be any evidence of cats or dolls sticking a paw or a finger into the whipped cream! They are allowed to be delighted for Sunday Dinner!
Awesome! Thanks for the recipe! I’ll look and see if I have pie makings floating around.
You are welcome – we had bags of scrap felt, and a few bottle caps in the recycling…and I always have needles and threads! Luckily I had scalloping shears – it was just what was needed to shape some fancy whipped cream!
I used to use a wee bit of fiber-fil with a touch of white paint, just barely a touch. smushed it up, and rolled it just a wee. gave a rather fluffy whipping.
great tip – thanks!
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Thanks very much, Bodana!
Truly Awesome…Absolutely delightful. Can’t wait to share this with my young nieces. Fun
The pies are fairly simple to make – best of all, my granddaughter thought they were really cute!
My Dear Jane
What a wonderful way to make a change of delicious pies! They look scrumptious and will be just right for hungry Hitty girls as they return from Their rambles in the bracing autumnal breezes. How clever of you and your person to come up with an idea like this and, on the pie safe! It is a piece of furniture I dream of owning.
Much love
Mary Not-Quite-Hitty xx
Dear Mary NQH, we were the very lucky recipient of this pie safe, and have always wanted to fill it with pie! I feel we are well on the way now!
How very clever…enjoyed the pie making process…thanks for the tips! And I LOVE the wonderful pie safe!
We enjoyed pie-making very much – even the favourite photographer helped out by gamely guzzling some brews so that we would have enough bottle caps to bake with!
how lovely to have the instructions. Thank you. That was a particularly fab post.
Oops I missed this – thanks! Happy to help out in case felt pie is ever on your menu!