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Even my Mexican friends don't know how to say "pie pan" or "pie tin" in Spanish. Google isn't much help, either.
How can I effectively communicate about a pie pan?
Examples:
Disposable, single-use pie pan, made of aluminum:
Multi-use metal pie pan:
Glass pie pan:
The first image that comes to my mind is the traditional apple pie dish, baked on top of an aluminum foil plate. It's a hard item to find in Spanish cuisine, but I would use molde para tartas o plato para tartas
In Spain, pay doesn't exist. Tarta is a generic word used for everything that is a dessert that is round; specialized deserts exist, like bizchoco which is a cake with a hole - like pound cake. Apple pie for example may be tarta de manzana. Pie, like American pie, is not so common so there is not a specific word for it. The pan may be called molde para tartas because it basically means that you want to make a dessert in the shape of a pie.
I guess it depends a lot on the region, but what I've seen on Northern Mexico (more specifically Chihuahua) is "Base para Pay" (and yes usually pie here is "pay") or "Corteza para Pay"
