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Pie Recipes

Find the best pie recipe for your restaurant or other food business

By Kristina Seleshanko
Pies are an all-American favorite dessert, and a good pie recipe is sure to catch your customers' attention. Whether you choose to stick to traditional American pies (like apple and pumpkin), branch out into more exotic pies (like mango) or create only no-bake favorites (like chocolate), your customers are sure to find a well-displayed pie collection irresistible.

When seeking pie recipes and pie recipe tips, consider how much time you're willing to put into pie making. No-bake pies offer a quick way to please your customers, while more exotic pies may take considerably more time to prepare. When researching pie recipes, try the following:

1. Seek an online pie recipe that appeals to you or has been reviewed by online readers.

2. Buy a pie recipe book written by an established cookbook author.

3. Test several pie recipes and pie recipe ingredients in your kitchen, choosing only the very best concoctions for your customers.

 

Select an online pie recipe

Recipes found online have the advantage of being free, and often they are reviewed by fellow cooks (although most are amateur). Although it makes sense to look for a pie recipe at a well-established recipe website, don't neglect smaller websites dedicated to creating pies.
Try: PastryWiz has a nice selection of free pie recipes, such as butter tart pie, chocolate peanut butter pie, sugar-free key lime pie and lemon sour cream pie. Just Pie Recipes also has a good collection of pie recipes, including those for plum, coconut and almond pies.

Find a pie recipe card for no-bakes

When time is at a premium, no-bake pies offer a quick and satisfying way to please your customers. Although we tend to think of standbys like chocolate cream pie when we imagine no-bakes, there are also great recipes for more unusual no-bake pies, including pumpkin and berry pies.
Try: Cooks.com offers free recipes for no-bake pies like pumpkin, strawberry, chocolate, mango and blueberry pies. Hearst Communications' Good Housekeeping has a short, but quality, list of no-bake pie recipes, including a recipe for lime and mango pie.

Make use of a pie recipe book

A good pie recipe book is a must if you have serious interest in cooking pies for your customers. Not only will a cookbook offer tested recipes, but it should offer excellent general baking tips that can help make your pies easy to prepare and delicious to eat.
Try: Cooking.com sells Rose Levy Beranbaum's "The Pie and Pastry Bible," packed full of superb pie recipes and pie making tips. Books Nation offers "Killer Pies" by Stephanie Anderson, providing pie recipes from American restaurants.

 

  • When considering storage and pie recipe ingredients, you'll find that most pies need not be refrigerated. You should loosely cover baked pies with wax paper, then cover with foil for maximum freshness. Such pies should keep for a couple of days at room temperature. Custards, meringues and cream pies should always be refrigerated.

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