My Favorite Holiday Pie Recipes-
It’s almost Thanksgiving and what would the holiday be without a few traditional Thanksgiving pies to help celebrate the season! Our table wouldn’t be complete with at least two of our favorites one of which has to always be Pumpkin Pie!
Through the years I’ve tried different recipes but I always go back to the recipe on the back of the Libby’s can, with just minor adjustments. You really can’t go wrong with that version of the holiday standard.
Everyone loves pies and they are really easy to make. I even buy premade pie shells when I don’t have time to make my own pie crust. The filling is the show!
My recipes will have you looking like a star in the kitchen and you’ll be able to add homemade pies to your kitchen repertoire. Once you see how easy it is to make pies you’ll be surprising your friends and family with your home-baked creations.
Happy Thanksgiving, and don’t forget to count your blessings!
If you love desserts make sure to check out these other favorites:
- Peanut Butter Pie
- Pumpkin Crunch Cake
- Best Tiramisu Recipe
- Pumpkin Praline Cheesecake
- Amethyst Cheesecake
Holiday Pie Recipes
Ingredients
Pecan Pie
- 5 large eggs
- 1 cup light corn syrup
- ¼ cup packed brown sugar
- ¼ cup sugar
- 2 tbsp unsalted butter melted ¼ stick
- 1 tbsp bourbon
- 1 tsp vanilla
- ½ tsp salt
- 2 cups chopped pecans 6 oz dry weight
- 50 half pecans for decorating top of pie optional
- 1 pie shell premade or your favorite recipe
Apple Cranberry Pie
- 6 large Fuji apple or your favorite cooking apple
- 2 cups whole berry cranberry sauce store or homemade
- ½ cup brown sugar
- ¼ tsp cinnamon
- 2 ½ - 3 cups streusel topping
- 1 deep dish pie shell
Streusel Topping
- 1 cup all purpose flour
- ½ cup light brown sugar packed
- ¼ cup sugar
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 9 tablespoons chilled unsalted butter cut into ½-inch cubes
- ½ cup old-fashioned oats
Pumpkin Pie
- ¾ cup granulated sugar
- 2 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice or just cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 2 large eggs
- 15 oz pumpkin puree not pumpkin pie
- 12 oz evaporated milk
- 1 deep-dish pie shell
Instructions
Pecan Pie
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees
- In the bowl of your mixer beat eggs slightly, and add in corn syrup, sugars, salt, butter, bourbon, and vanilla, mix well.
- Add in chopped pecans
- Pour mixture into pie crust and bake for 50 -60 minutes or until a thermometer in the center of the pie reads 200 degrees
Apple Cranberry Pie
- peel and cut apples into slices or chunks
- mix apples with cranberry sauce, brown sugar and cinnamon
- add the mixture to pie crust and top with streusel topping
- bake for 60-70 minutes at 350 degrees on a foil-lined cookie sheet to catch drippings
Streusel Topping
- mix flour, oatmeal, salt, cinnamon and sugars together
- add in butter and work into flour mixture until butter is completely cut into flour mixture
- mixture should have small clumps and look grainy
Pumpkin Pie
- Mix sugar, cinnamon, salt and pumpkin pie spice in a small bowl.
- Beat eggs in with your mixer until frothy
- Stir in pumpkin and sugar-spice mixture.
- Gradually add in evaporated milk (I use only about ¾ of the can)
- Pour into pie shell.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 50 - 60 minutes or until knife inserted near center comes out clean.
- Cool on wire rack and refrigerate until serving
- Top with whipped cream before serving.
Ruth I
These are all amazing pies! I like it better when it’s filled with fruits like strawberry and mango. Cannot wait to try your recipe.
Chris Hoov
These pie recipes sounds great..! Thanks for sharing your ideas.. Can’t wait to try one of these.
Amber Killmon
Would it be wrong to have all of these pies for Thanksgiving? Just forget the dinner let’s just have pie!
Chef Dennis Littley
I like how you think!
Bonnie G
Thank you so much for sharing these recipes. I can’t wait to cook for Thanksgiving. Will try one of these recipes.
Tasheena
I can’t wait to give these recipes a try. All of them look and sound so divine.
Elaine
Thanksgiving and pies are just two best friends 🙂 I always make a pie when the holidays come, and I am sure this year won’t be an exception. Thank you for sharing your fail-proof instructions – can’t wait to follow them!
Ice Cream n Sticky Fingers
Around this time of year, I always miss my grandmother and mom a ton. They are both gone but their memories live forever. So every time, I see recipes for yummy pies, it always reminds me of their baking. During the holidays, we all cooked a ton of goodies.
Amanda
What a great resource for the upcoming holidays! I think I need to try each recipe. Definitely pinning this. Thanks so much for sharing so many great recipes!
Rena
My mother used to make a chocolate pie that had so much homemade meringue for my husband every year. I’d love to know how to make them. She died this past January.
Shannon Gauger
So many wonderful ideas to choose from! These sound so great!
Sarah Bailey
Thank you so much for these delicious recipes. I most definitely need to work through them and try out all the pies!
Amber Myers
I love all of these pies. I admit I cheat and buy them already made. Maybe one time I will try to make them on my own!
Danielle
I agree – Thanksgiving pies are what makes this holiday even better 🙂 I will be watching your “Thanksgiving Pie Recipes” video recipe in a second but just wanted to let you know that this post was realy timely for me!
Melissa
I love to bake pies for Thanksgiving. Now that I am gluten free I adapt all of the recipes to use a gluten free pie crust. Your pie recipes look yummy! Will have to make some this year! Thanks!
Ben
Aww yeah. A lot of people go straight for the turkey, dressing, and gravy for Thanksgiving and Christmas. I just wait until the pies come out! These look great.
Bec
Though I’m not in the US I love seeing these recipes – hope to try them myself!
Chef Dennis Littley
Thanks Bec! and it was nice meeting you at TBEX!
Maria
Apple cranberry pie is my favorite!! I’m not a fan of pecan and pumpkin is fine, but apple and other fruit pies will forever have my heart! I love playing around with different varieties of baking apples. Up here in WA, we have lots of crazy varieties:)
Kim - Liv Life
I love the behind the scenes look!! My kitchen is always a jumble of ingredients and photo equipment.
And that Pumpkin Pie looks simply perfect (I may be a little partial to pumpkin…). Here’s hoping you and Lisa had a wonderful Thanksgiving!
Chef Dennis Littley
Thanks Kim! I try to take one from time to time to show how I set up for my show.
The Food Explorer
Your delicious pecan pie recipe has been chosen as one of the best 50 Thanksgiving pecan pie recipes on the net.
Happy Thanksgiving! 🙂
Chef Dennis Littley
Thank you!! Hope you had a Happy Thanksgiving!
Toni | BoulderLocavore
Yum! Happiest of Thanksgivings to you and Lisa, Dennis!
Chef Dennis Littley
Thank you Toni! Happy Thanksgiving!