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

By Patricia S York
Credit: Hector Sanchez
There is no end to the many ways we celebrate and enjoy the luscious seasonal fruits of the South. We cook them down into jams and jellies, bake them up into beautiful cakes and incorporate them into everyone's favorite summer treat, homemade ice cream. Fruits and berries are also delicious loaded into cobblers, but, if you want to really impress your guests, bake them a stunning fruit pie. More fussy than a cobbler or crisp, a fresh fruit pie is enveloped in a tender piecrust that is either crimped, latticed, and shielded to get the perfect look. Whether you want an easy blackberry pie or a peach pie recipe, check out this lineup of some of our best fruit pie recipes.
Start Slideshow

1 of 7

Cherry-Plum Pie with Cornmeal Crust

Credit: Alison Miksch

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.

Advertisement
Advertisement

2 of 7

Mixed Stone-Fruit Pie

Credit: Alison Miksch

Recipe: Mixed Stone Fruit Pie

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

3 of 7

Mile-High Mini Strawberry Pies

Credit: Hector M. Sanchez

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.

Advertisement

4 of 7

Honey-Balsamic Blueberry Pie

Credit: Hector Sanchez

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.

5 of 7

Brown Sugar-Cinnamon Peach Pie

Credit: Jim Franco

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.

6 of 7

Fresh Blackberry Pie

Credit: Southern Living

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.

Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement

7 of 7

Fried Strawberry Pies

Credit: Jennifer Davick

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

Replay gallery

Share the Gallery

Up Next

By Patricia S York