Here’s a detailed description of each of these amazing pies, covering everything from classic American favorites to unique regional specialties!
A – C Pies 🍏🍌🍒
1. Angel Pie
A light and airy pie featuring a meringue crust filled with lemon or lime curd and topped with whipped cream. It has a delicate, cloud-like texture and is often compared to a cross between lemon meringue pie and pavlova.
2. Apple Crisp
A crumble-style dessert made with baked apples and topped with a buttery oat streusel. Unlike apple pie, it doesn’t have a traditional crust but is loved for its crispy, sweet topping.
3. Apple Pie
One of the most iconic American desserts, made with spiced apples (cinnamon, nutmeg, sugar) baked in a buttery, flaky double crust. Often served with ice cream (à la mode).
4. Atlantic Beach Pie
A North Carolina coastal favorite, made with a saltine cracker crust, filled with lemon or lime custard, and topped with whipped cream or meringue. The salty-sweet combination is what makes it unique.
5. Banana Cream Pie
A silky custard pie filled with layers of vanilla pudding, sliced bananas, and whipped cream, often with a graham cracker or pastry crust.
6. Bean Pie
A unique Southern pie made with mashed navy beans, sugar, butter, eggs, and warming spices (like cinnamon and nutmeg). Despite its name, it has a custard-like texture and sweet, nutty flavor.
7. Blackberry Pie
A juicy fruit pie filled with fresh or cooked blackberries, sugar, and a hint of lemon, all baked in a buttery crust. Sometimes topped with lattice pastry.
8. Black Bottom Pie
A layered Southern pie featuring a chocolate custard base (“black bottom”), topped with rum or vanilla-flavored custard, and finished with whipped cream and chocolate shavings.
9. Blueberry Pie
A classic summer fruit pie filled with sweet, juicy blueberries, sugar, and lemon zest, often baked with a double or lattice crust.
10. Buttermilk Pie
A Southern favorite, this custard-style pie has a tangy, creamy filling made with buttermilk, eggs, butter, and sugar, creating a light, custardy texture with a slightly caramelized top.
11. Butterscotch Pie
A rich, creamy pie made with a brown sugar custard filling, flavored with butter and vanilla, and topped with whipped cream or meringue.
12. Cashew Pie
Similar to pecan pie, but made with cashews instead of pecans, giving it a buttery, nutty, and slightly tropical flavor.
13. Cherry Pie
A classic fruit pie filled with sweet or tart cherries, often baked with a lattice crust. One of the most iconic American pies.
14. Chess Pie
A Southern staple, made with butter, sugar, eggs, and cornmeal for a dense, custard-like filling. Often flavored with lemon or vanilla.
15. Chocolate Haupia Pie
A Hawaiian specialty, featuring layers of rich chocolate pudding and haupia (coconut pudding) on a flaky pie crust, topped with whipped cream.
16. Chiffon Pie
A light and fluffy pie made with a whipped egg and gelatin-based filling, often flavored with lemon, chocolate, or pumpkin.
17. Cream Pie
A broad category of pies featuring silky, pudding-like fillings made with milk, eggs, and sugar, often topped with whipped cream. Includes banana, chocolate, coconut, and vanilla variations.
D – G Pies 🍫🥜🍇
18. Derby Pie
A Kentucky classic, made with chocolate, walnuts or pecans, and bourbon, baked in a buttery crust.
19. Desperation Pies
A term for pies made with simple ingredients during hard times. Examples include chess pie, vinegar pie, and mock apple pie.
20. Fried Pie
A handheld, deep-fried pie filled with fruit, chocolate, or custard, often dusted with powdered sugar.
21. Grape Pie
A regional favorite from New York, made with Concord grapes, sugar, and lemon, baked in a flaky crust.
22. Grasshopper Pie
A mint-flavored, no-bake pie, made with a chocolate cookie crust and a creamy green filling flavored with crème de menthe.
23. Green Tomato Pie
A sweet-tart pie made with sliced green tomatoes, sugar, and spices, similar in texture to apple pie.
K – S Pies 🍋🥧
24. Key Lime Pie
A Florida favorite, made with key lime juice, sweetened condensed milk, and a graham cracker crust.
25. Lemon Icebox Pie
A Southern no-bake pie, made with a creamy lemon filling on a graham cracker crust, chilled in the fridge (“icebox”).
26. Maple Custard Pie
A New England favorite, featuring a rich custard filling flavored with pure maple syrup.
27. Millionaire Pie
A creamy, no-bake pie made with pineapple, coconut, pecans, and condensed milk, served in a graham cracker crust.
28. Mississippi Mud Pie
A decadent chocolate pie with layers of chocolate custard, cake, and ganache, named after the muddy banks of the Mississippi River.
29. Peanut Pie
A Southern specialty, similar to pecan pie but made with peanuts and a gooey, caramel-like filling.
30. Pecan Pie
A rich Southern pie with a sweet, nutty filling made from pecans, eggs, butter, and corn syrup.
31. Pumpkin Pie
A classic fall pie, featuring a spiced pumpkin custard filling baked in a buttery crust.
32. Sweet Potato Haupia Pie
A Hawaiian-style pie, made with sweet potato filling topped with haupia (coconut pudding).
33. Rhubarb Pie
A tart, tangy pie made with rhubarb stalks and sugar, often paired with strawberries.
34. Shaker Lemon Pie
A citrusy pie made with thinly sliced whole lemons, sugar, and eggs, creating a sweet-tart custard filling.
35. Shoofly Pie
A Pennsylvania Dutch pie, made with molasses, brown sugar, and a crumb topping, often served for breakfast.