How to decorate your pie

Use a pizza cutter to cut eight thin strips of pastry, working from one of the shorter edges. Roll out the remaining pastry so it’s a little longer, then cut into thin strips. Lay the longer strips over the length of the pie, and the shorter strips diagonally going the other way. Trim the edges of the pie and use the off-cuts to cut out enough polka dots (we used the large end of a piping nozzle) to go all the way around the edge.