7 Delicious Reasons We're Happy It's Fruit Pie Season

Recipe: Cherry-Plum Pie with Cornmeal Crust

If you don't have a cherry pitter, try inserting a wooden chopstick through the stem end of each cherry to remove the pits.

Recipe: Mixed Stone Fruit Pie

This pie shows off everything we love about stone fruits—their natural beauty, juicy sweetness, and gorgeous colors.

Recipe: Mile-High Mini Strawberry Pies

You can make 12 mini pies with this recipe, or one big 9-inch pie. Either way, we guarantee there won’t be any leftovers.

Recipe: Honey-Balsamic Blueberry Pie

We love the buttery crust in this pie, but if you are short on time, substitute a store-bought crust and simply crimp the edges.

Recipe: Brown Sugar-Cinnamon Peach Pie

When novelist Alice Walker penned In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens, she wrote “life is better than death…because it has fresh peaches in it.” You will wholeheartedly agree with Ms. Walker after just one bite of this fabulous peach pie.

Recipe: Fresh Blackberry Pie

This recipe, which ran in July of 2003, calls for blue food coloring to be added, but feel free to leave it out—it won’t change the taste in this reader-favorite summer pie.

Recipe: Fried Strawberry Pies

Refrigerated piecrusts make this recipe a snap to pull together. If you have a favorite homemade piecrust recipe, however, go ahead and use that.

How To: Step-by-Step Fried Pie Guide