233 pie topping recipes

Traditional Irish apple pudding with tart apple puree topped with fluffy meringue for a simple, elegant dessert that's lighter than pie and serves hot or cold.

Meringue pecan pie binds Ritz cracker crumbs and chopped pecans into a stiff egg-white meringue, then bakes into a chewy-crisp slice. No pie crust required. Top with ice cream or fresh fruit and whipped cream.

Maple walnut squares with a buttery shortbread crust and a gooey maple syrup and maple sugar filling topped with chopped walnuts. Like pecan pie bars with a pure maple twist.

A campfire coffee cake made in a cast iron Dutch oven with charcoal. Bisquick batter over pie filling, topped with cinnamon sugar and butter. Wake up the whole campsite with this one.

Jan's 1940s apple pie heaped with McIntosh and Cortland apples, finished with a quick water-rinse trick on the top crust that produces an exceptionally flaky finish.

Strawberry oat crumble pie with fresh strawberries layered between a brown sugar oat crust and crumble topping. Serve warm or chilled for a syrupy filling.

Mini cheesecakes with vanilla wafers bottoms topped with cherry pie filling. Easy individual cherry cheesecake that's ready in about 30 minutes!

Custard-style rhubarb pie with a vanilla yogurt filling, warm nutmeg, and a brown sugar pecan crumble topping. Tart rhubarb meets sweet, creamy filling in every slice.

Creme de menthe pie with a chocolate cookie crust and a fluffy marshmallow-mint filling. A no-bake frozen dessert with chocolate curls on top.

Soft pumpkin walnut cookies topped with maple frosting. Made with real pumpkin puree, brown sugar, pumpkin pie spice, and crunchy walnuts for a cakey fall cookie.

Million Dollar Pie mixes sweetened condensed milk, crushed pineapple, pecans, lemon juice, and whipped topping into graham cracker crusts. No-bake and ready after chilling.

Easy Boston cream pie made the no-bake way: a split yellow cake layer sandwiched with silky vanilla pudding, then crowned with a glossy chocolate-cream topping spiked with almond extract.

Lattice-top apple pie with Kahlua coffee liqueur, brown sugar, and a toasted pecan layer baked into the bottom crust. A grown-up twist on a Thanksgiving classic.

Diabetic-friendly lemon cream pie with a blind-baked pastry crust, tart lemon custard set with gelatin, and a light whipped topping. Bright, creamy, and sugar-free.

Fresh peach pie with a buttery crumb topping, cinnamon, and lemon juice. Sliced peaches macerate before baking for concentrated juicy flavor under a crispy streusel crust.

A lattice-topped mincemeat tart for Christmas: spiced fruit mincemeat baked in a crisp butter-and-lard shortcrust under a delicate woven lattice, dusted with icing sugar. One big tart instead of fiddly individual pies.