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.

• Quick Glance
• 30 M
• 3 H
• 0

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

• Quick Glance
• 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

If in the beginning there was pie, it was probably chess pie seeing as it comes together soooooo simply from pantry staples.

• 30 M
• 1 H, 25 M
• 6

Handheld love: Simply envelope fruit filling in pastry dough and fry until golden and crisp outside, bubbling and lovely inside. Then drizzle with a tartly sweet lemon icing.

• 1 H, 10 M
• 1 H, 40 M
• 6

Simple and stunning. That’s what we think of this ridiculously easy tart made with a graham cracker crumb crust, a luscious cheesecake-like filling made of cream cheese, cream, and sugar, and a scattering of summer berries.

• Quick Glance
• 30 M
• 40 M
• 2

Sweet cherries are for eating out of hand but sour cherries are for pies. Like this pie. Best darn sour cherry pie we’ve ever encountered.

• Quick Glance
• 15 M
• 1 H, 30 M
• 2

Sometimes a pie craving is just too strong to wait for a plate and fork and fussily crimping a top crust. Enter this easy peasy yet elegant crostata.

• 25 M
• 1 H, 50 M
• 2

Quite possibly the best mingling of blueberries, lemon, mascarpone cheese, and pastry to ever grace a dessert table. We swear it’s going to make you a legend among friends.

• Quick Glance
• 15 M
• 2 H
• 0

Carefully concocted to rely on less sugar than the cloying milk chocolate cream pie of our childhood, this is a far more adult-friendly, yet still spectacularly satisfying, rendition of a classic.

• 30 M
• 2 H, 30 M
• 6

Tart rhubarb collides with sweet blueberries to create some serious summer pie envy among strawberry rhubarb loyalists.

• 30 M
• 3 H
• 8