Pie Recipes

Not only is this buttermilk pie easy to make and beautiful to look at, it's also bursting with the kind of bright, tangy flavor that no other custard-style pie can touch. This is sort of like a vanilla custard, meets lemon meringue pie, meets very light cheesecake. Except better.

Fresh lemon juice and lemon zest make this lemon meringue pie filling tart and lovely. And when it's poured into a waiting crust, topped with billows of meringue, and baked, it's downright dreamy.

A unique and popular recipe. Sliced apples under a lattice crust get bathed with a sweet buttery sauce before baking.

Sweetened toasted coconut is stirred into a homemade custard filling and poured into a pie shell. After the pie is chilled and set, it's covered with whipped topping and more toasted coconut.

Half of this pie's strawberries are arranged in a baked pastry shell, and the other half are crushed and cooked until thick and bubbly. This lovely glaze is then poured over the whole berries in the pastry shell. Chill this pie for several hours and serve it with mounds of whipped cream.

This sweet potato pie is a favorite for everyone who's tasted it.

Remember this recipe when you want to whip up your favorite chocolate, coconut custard or banana cream pie. Butter, graham cracker crumbs and sugar are perfectly balanced in this recipe. And the mixture presses nicely into a pie pan, and can be pre-baked or just chilled.

This ambrosial banana cream pie is filled with lots of bananas and a creamy pudding mixture. Once this pie is prepared, it's slipped into the oven for about 15 minutes, then chilled and served to raves.

This peanut butter refrigerator pie is delicious and very easy to make.

This key lime pie filling has sour cream and sweetened condensed milk and is perfect for your favorite homemade graham cracker crust.

This is an old Italian recipe for a pie with a sweet crust--just like from the old country. My in-laws are Italian and they say that this is the best pie. It is always requested for Christmas. Mini chocolate bits and lemon rind can be mixed into the batter.

Chef John shows you how to perfect the world-famous Portuguese custard tarts, from buttering and folding the dough to incorporating the custard with the sugar syrup.

There is nothing to beat a fresh blueberry pie. It doesn't need much: sugar, a bit of cornstarch to thicken all the nice juices and cinnamon. It's perfect with fresh berries, but still mighty fine with frozen ones.

The pie makes its own crust. Just mix in a blender, bake and serve warm. You may leave out coconut if you wish.

This delicious, flaky pie crust made with butter makes a single crust pie, but can be scaled to meet your pie baking needs.

This perfect pumpkin pie is a delicious ending to a Thanksgiving feast.

To make this tart and creamy blue ribbon pie, egg yolks, lime juice and condensed milk are stirred together, poured into a graham cracker crust, and baked.

This fruity ricotta and wheat pie is dense and moist and very good. A real Italian treat for Easter.

A family favorite when a no-bake, fast pie is needed. (And family members too small to use the oven can make dessert!) Very pretty when garnished with whipped cream and mint leaves.

It doesn't take much to make rhubarb sing: some sugar, a bit of flour, and a pat or two of butter. When this lovely double-crust pie emerges from the oven, it's golden outside and sweet and luscious inside. It's especially nice with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

Grandma's decadent fudge pie will appeal to chocolate lovers everywhere.

A cookie dough crust, cream cheese filling, and fruit topping. Tip: For a quick crust, use one package of ready made sugar cookie dough rolled out to fit a pizza pan. Use an assortment of fresh fruit such as bananas, peaches, blueberries, kiwi, pineapple, and strawberries.

A tangy custard is baked in a short crust in this old fashioned dessert.

This easy Southern pecan pie is simply the best.