Family Rural Lifestyle Save room for pie: Our favorite recipes Everyone loves pie! Get the recipes for several of our favorites, including choco-honey crunch pecan pie, double cherry supreme pie, and frozen peanut butter pie. By Lisa Foust Prater Lisa Foust Prater Lisa Foust Prater is the Family & Farmstead Editor for Successful Farming, sharing interesting family features, heartfelt editorial columns, and important health and safety information. Her favorite thing about her job is meeting interesting people, learning their stories, and sharing them with our readers.Lisa started her career with Successful Farming magazine in 1999, working primarily for the web team and writing product reviews for the magazine. She later wrote for the Living the Country Life magazine and website and has written and edited several cookbooks and other books for Successful Farming and Living the Country Life. Successful Farming's Editorial Guidelines Updated on October 2, 2023 Close According to the American Pie Council, 1 in 5 Americans admit to having eaten an entire pie by themselves, 27% say their mom makes the best pie, and 9% prefer to eat their pie crust-first. Pies are so popular that if the 186 million pies sold in U.S. grocery stores every year were lined up, they would circle the globe with pies to spare. But why buy a pie when you can make one yourself? Give one of these tasty recipes a try! Choco-honey crunch pecan pie This decadent pie has everything: chocolate? Check. Honey? Check. Pecans? Check. Make it for a special occasion or surprise your family by serving this on a regular old week night. GET THE RECIPE: Choco-honey crunch pecan pie Award-winning Dutch apple pie Shelby McCreedy's grandmother told her the simple secret to pie baking. "Don't get fancy," she would say. "It doesn't have to be pretty to taste good. When you make something, you eat it whether it comes out the way it was supposed to or not!" That's great advice, but her grandma's Dutch apple pie is both delicious and beautiful. GET THE RECIPE: Award-winning Dutch apple pie Double cherry supreme pie This scrumptious pie is made with both frozen and dried cherries, giving it a taste and texture unlike most cherry pies. This will quickly become your go-to recipe for family dinners and potlucks alike. GET THE RECIPE: Double cherry supreme pie Frozen peanut butter pie Even though this pie is frozen, you don't have to wait until summer to serve it! Try this no-bake, creamy dessert made with a time-saving store-bought chocolate crumb crust. GET THE RECIPE: Frozen peanut butter pie Blue-ribbon gooseberry pie When Kaye Postma of Rhodes, Iowa, asked her 89-year-old father what he wanted for his birthday, he said, "A rare steak, wilted lettuce, and gooseberry pie." Postma has a reputation as the family pie baker, so she got cracking. Her creation won a blue ribbon at the Iowa State Fair. GET THE RECIPE: Blue-ribbon gooseberry pie APPLE, RHUBARB, AND RASPBERRY PIE WITH ALMOND STAR CRUST This pretty, patriotic pie is perfect for your Fourth of July, Memorial Day, Labor Day, or Veterans Day gathering, but it's so delicious, you'll want to make it more often than that. This fruit combination with the almond crust is fantastic! GET THE RECIPE: Apple, rhubarb, and raspberry pie with almond star crust Was this page helpful? Thanks for your feedback! Tell us why! Other Submit