Hi Amanda! If you ever have a question that needs an answer right away, please call our free and friendly Baker's Hotline at 855-371-BAKE (2253) so we can assist you. Whether the filling were in a bowl or in the shell wouldn't really affect how it would set, so if it wasn't going to set up all the way in the pie shell, it isn't because it's in the pie shell — it likely wouldn't have set up correctly if it hadn't been poured into the shell either.

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