Tarts & Pies

Need to bring something to a backyard bash when all you want is mad crazy gratitude and an empty dish to take home? This blueberry crumble with a crumbly oatmeal cookie topping is your answer.

• 15 M
• 50 M
• 51

An almost-but-not-quite-classic rendition of lemon meringue pie that’s a lot less effort than you’d expect. And more payback than you can imagine in terms of its perfectly balanced sweetly tart lemon custard.

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• 50 M
• 2 H, 50 M
• 0

Known in some parts as tar heel pie, this ridiculously rich and gooey chocolate brownie pie is crazy easy to make—and just as easy to make disappear.

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• 45 M
• 4 H
• 0

Essentially Irish stew with some lovely store-bought puff pastry plopped on top. Easy peasy. It may even make us think corned beef on March 17th.

• 45 M
• 3 H
• 36

This rum pecan pie is all grown up thanks to a little splash of rum in the sweet and crunchy pecan filling. Just like traditional pecan pie. Only better.

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• 20 M
• 1 H, 30 M
• 0

Startlingly spectacular made-from-scratch cheese Danish that are going to forever change your notion of what a cheese Danish ought to be.

• 30 M
• 1 H
• 4

Know what we can’t stop thinking about? This crostata. At first whiff of its heady fall spices, you’ll tumble head over heals in love.

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• 45 M
• 1 H, 45 M
• 6

French. Foolproof. Froufrou. Fuss-free. Fenomenal. (Work with us.) Rarely does elegance come together with such ease (and alliteration) as this tart recipe.

• 35 M
• 2 H
• 21

Surprise family and friends with the savory jolt of a smattering of extra-sharp Cheddar cheese, baked straight into the crust, in contrast to the sweet apple pie filling.

• 40 M
• 3 H, 40 M
• 10

An unconventional approach to apple pie that happily involves booze and lotsa butter. Even more memorable as the classic.

• 45 M
• 4 H, 25 M
• 26

Made for little hands and little mouths, these lovely little tarts are short pastry crusts that are baked and then dolloped with any kind of jam you’d like. Make sure the kids make these with you.

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• 30 M
• 3 H
• 0

Apricot tart with frangipane. Because stone fruit season is short. So is life.

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• 1 H
• 4 H
• 6

Whether you seek convention or innovation, you’ll find it in this haute yet humble peach pie, which draws on tradition yet still wields some surprises.

• 30 M
• 2 H, 25 M
• 10

This Southern peach cobbler is going to bring back a lot of memories. We consider it Southern charm.

• 10 M
• 50 M
• 12