Dessert Recipes

Key lime pie loaded with lime zest, juice and a hit of citric acid for an extra-tart punch, set in a ginger crumb crust and crowned with whipped cream. A no-bake, intensely limey twist on the classic.

Sugar-free apple pie sweetened only by frozen apple juice concentrate. Sliced apples simmered with cinnamon, allspice, and nutmeg in a pre-baked pie shell. Diabetic-friendly dessert.

Double-crust apple cranberry pie with crystallized ginger, lemon zest, and allspice. Decorated with pastry leaves and finished with demerara sugar for sparkle.

Frozen mint pie in an Oreo crust: whipped topping, sweetened condensed milk, and mint extract folded into a no-bake holiday dessert. Five ingredients, freeze and serve.

Alice's chess pie blends butter, sugar, eggs, half-and-half, cornmeal, and a splash of vinegar into a glossy custard pie with a crackly sugar top. A Southern pantry classic baked in a single crust.

Caramel pecan pie with homemade caramel pastry cream, chopped pecans, and a golden meringue topping. Old-school holiday Southern pie tradition.

Strawberry rhubarb pie with quick-cooking tapioca for a thick, glossy filling under a buttery lattice crust. Tart and sweet spring fruit pie with a clean slice every time.

Apple butter pie: a creamy custard pie made with spiced apple butter, eggs, milk, and half-and-half in a single crust, topped with fresh nutmeg.

Babe's Surprise Apple Pie skips the top crust and crowns thinly sliced apples with a buttery brown sugar crumble topping instead. Cinnamon, lemon juice, and a hot oven do the rest.

Tangy lemon curd filling in a crisp pie shell, topped with sky-high meringue swirled into golden peaks. Crowd-pleasing classic dessert.

Texas-style pecan pie with a secret cornmeal addition for texture, both light and dark corn syrup for depth, and vanilla butternut extract. Gooey, crunchy, and piled with whipped cream.

A rustic open-faced apple pie piled high with chunky apples, blanketed in buttery sugar-flour crumbs, and soaked with an egg-milk custard before baking. Part crumble, part pie, all comfort.

Two Southern legends in one pie: a creamy cheesecake layer on the bottom topped with classic pecan pie filling. The holiday dessert table just got a whole lot more interesting.

My husband loves banana cream pie, and I love chocolate, so I decided to combine the two and the result was better than either one of us could imagine. It is delicious, and has tuned out to be a favorite.

A creamy cocoa cheesecake on a buttery graham cracker crust, topped with a smooth vanilla sour cream layer. Baked in a springform pan and garnished with fresh fruit. Serves 10 to 12.

A chilled coconut-lime cream pie in a coconut-graham cracker crust with a silky custard filling, fresh lime juice, and piped whipped cream topping. Tropical, tangy, and make-ahead friendly for up to 3 days.