These pie recipes include fruit-filled pastry, chocolate custard, chilled cream fillings, pumpkin and pecans. There are full-size pies for slicing as well as small hand pies and muffin-pan portions. Choose the filling style first, then check whether you need a raw shell, a baked crust or homemade dough.
A chilled filling does not always mean the whole recipe avoids the oven: several pies begin with a fully baked crust. Fruit pies also need cooling time so their filling can settle. The sweet potato hand pies are fried, while the jam hand pies are baked.
Pie Recipes with Fruit Fillings
These pies use fresh fruit, a citrus filling or jam inside different pastry formats.
1. Apple Pie Recipe with a Lattice Crust and Spiced Filling
Thin apple slices are briefly warmed before being enclosed beneath a pastry lattice. The deep pie needs a long cooling stage before it is divided into wedges.
2. Homemade Peach Pie with Butter Crust and Warm Spices
A homemade butter crust holds spiced peach slices under a vented top. Chill the dough first and allow the baked pie to cool and settle before slicing.
3. Fresh Strawberry Pie with a Chilled Berry Glaze Filling
Fresh strawberries fill a fully baked, cooled shell with a cooked gelatin glaze. The filling sets in the refrigerator rather than baking with the fruit.
4. Lemon Meringue Pie with a Graham Cracker Crust
A cooked lemon filling is covered with heated, whipped egg whites on a crumb crust. The finished pie is chilled after its brief browning stage.
5. Mini Apple Pies Recipe in a Standard Muffin Pan
Small apple dice fill pastry rounds pressed into a standard muffin pan. These individual pies use an open fruit center rather than a full double crust.
6. Sourdough Jam Hand Pies
Sourdough discard is worked into a cold-butter pastry around thick jam. The small rectangular pies bake in tray batches and can receive an optional milk glaze.
Chocolate and Cream Pies
Chocolate, banana and cream cheese fillings offer chilled slices with different bases.
7. Chocolate Mousse Pie with a Cookie Crust and Cream
A baked chocolate cookie crust supports chocolate mousse with a cookie crumb layer. The egg whites are heated before whipping, and the assembled pie is chilled before serving.
8. Easy Key Lime Pie with a Baked Graham Cracker Crust
Egg yolks, condensed milk and key lime juice form a short filling list. The filling is baked in an oven-safe crumb crust, then cooled and refrigerated.
9. No Bake Banana Caramel Pecan Pie with Shortbread Crust
A shortbread-pecan base holds caramel and a banana pudding cream cheese filling. This layered pie uses no oven bake, but it still needs several chilling stages.
10. Double Chocolate Cream Pie with Sunflower Seed Mousse
Cooked chocolate pudding is chilled before a sunflower-seed chocolate mousse layer goes on top. A deep springform holds the dessert through two separate refrigerator stages.
11. Chocolate Pie with Dark Chocolate and a Cooked Custard
Dark chocolate is stirred into a cooked milk-and-egg custard before it fills a baked shell. Refrigeration sets the filling for cold wedges with optional whipped cream.
12. Strawberry Cream Cheese Pie with a Baked Crumb Crust
Cream cheese and prepared whipped topping sit beneath fresh strawberries on a baked crumb crust. A little jam gives the fruit a glaze before the pie chills.
Pumpkin, Pecan and Other Pies
Pumpkin custard, pecans and coconut bring other choices to the dessert table.
13. Pumpkin Pie with Evaporated Milk and a Spiced Filling
Pumpkin puree, evaporated milk, eggs and spices bake in a deep raw pastry shell. The oven temperature is reduced after the initial hot stage, then the pie is chilled.
14. Crustless Pumpkin Pie with Evaporated Milk and Spices
Pumpkin custard bakes directly in a greased pie plate without pastry. The delicate wedges need chilling and a broad server for support when they are lifted.
15. Pecan Pie with Molasses and a Homemade Butter Crust
Molasses and dark brown sugar flavor the pecan filling inside a homemade butter crust. Plan for dough chilling, a full bake and refrigerator setting time.
16. German Chocolate Pie with Coconut and Pecan Topping
A milk-chocolate custard fills a baked shell before a cooked coconut-pecan topping is added. Cool the topping before it meets the chilled chocolate layer.
17. Fried Sweet Potato Hand Pies with Vanilla Milk Glaze
Cooked mashed sweet potato and spices fill small pastry circles that are folded and fried. Let the hot filling cool before adding the vanilla milk glaze.
Before You Choose Your Recipe
Match the dish depth and pastry preparation to the full recipe. Keep cooked custards and cream pies refrigerated, and allow fruit fillings to cool as instructed before slicing. For small pies, leave clean pastry edges so the filling can be enclosed properly.
