Learn How to Make a Pie with PBS

For Pi Day... or any other dessert-worthy occasion

Published on March 11, 2024 by Beatrice Alvarez

Find recipes and how-to videos for making your next best pie! We'll take you through the process of making a crispy crust to flavoring delicious fillings that will please everyone in your family. Whether savory or sweet, there is a pie you can make for every season. And we promise: no soggy bottoms.

These are just a few of the many pie recipes that can be found on PBS Food!

Secrets to crispy pie crusts

Every pie deserves, NEEDS, a good crust. It's going to hold your divine filling so it has to be strong. But it also has to be tasty! Oh and the texture is paramount because no one, we mean no one, likes a soggy bottom.

This video has excellent tips from Chef Steps' Grant Crilly on how to get the best pie crust you've ever made.

Apple pie recipes

If you're going to make pie, go ahead and make it an apple pie. Here are two recipes for you to try and thankfully, expert bakers walk us through the process! Join us in learning how to make apple pie from John Bunker (aka The Apple Whisperer) in Kitchen Vignettes and The Baking Journal (from station CET in Cincinnati, Ohio.)

Apple Pie | Kitchen Vignettes

Apple pie is a great way to appreciate the incredible variety and diversity of this glorious fruit. This apple pie recipe is courtesy of John Bunker, "The Apple Whisperer."

Full Length 6m 21s

Homemade Apple Pie | The Baking Journal

As the crisp air of autumn sets in, it's time to embrace the season's finest flavors. In this video, we're welcoming fall with open arms, and what better way than by mastering the art of crafting a warm, comforting apple pie from scratch? Join us in celebrating the arrival of this cozy season, and let's bake up some delicious apple pie!

Full Length 7m 44s

More fruit pie recipes

Apple is just the start to your fruit pie-making adventures. We recommend the following recipes to add to your dessert offerings.

Sour Cherry Pie

If you like cherries you are going to love this pie that you can make any time of year because it uses frozen cherries. Tastes like summer!

from Martha Bakes

Classic Peach Pie

Stone fruit at its finest: in a pie! This recipe amplifies the flavor of the peaches with bourbon and brown sugar.

from Fresh Tastes

Blueberry Lattice Pie

Small but mighty blueberries are the star in this recipe that will surely win you a ribbon at the fair.

from Martha Bakes

Savory pie recipes

Don't let anyone tell you you can't have pie for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. These pies are the main course in any weeknight meal or a special holiday feast.

Greens and Feta Pie

from Kitchen Vignettes

Eat your greens

Chicken Pot Pie

from Martha Stewart's Cooking School

A chicken in every pot (pie)

Highland Beef Pie

from Mary Berry's Highland Christmas

It's not just for Christmas

Shoofly Pie and Maple Syrup Pie

My favorite pies are the decadent, delicious, old school types: Shoofly and Maple Syrup. I have included them here so you can learn to make them and share with me. Please and thank you.

Shoofly Pie

from Lidia Celebrates America

Try your hand at making this pie that is most closely associated with Pennsylvania Dutch farming communities and dates back to the late 1800s.

Bonnie Boyer's Shoofly Pie recipe

Maple Syrup Pie

from Kitchen Vignettes

When spring starts peeking out through stick season, maple trees are tapped and soon we'll have liquid gold: maple syrup. Make it the star ingredient in your next pie.

Maple syrup pie recipe

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