31 Delicious Pies for Pi Day

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March 14 marks the annual day of celebration for the mathematical constant pi. Since pi and pie are homophones, naturally we can’t celebrate one without the other. Here, 31 phenomenal pies you can make for pi day. You can even practice your fractions with the slices.

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Caramel Cream Pie with Crispy Rice Topping

Humble ingredients like puffed rice cereal (transformed into a brilliant topping) and graham crackers (crushed with hazelnuts to yield a tender crust) are the core of this surprisingly luxe dessert.

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Puff Pastry Apple Pie

Since puff pastry can be tricky to prepare, this version uses a high-quality, store-bought puff pastry.

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Lemon Ice Box Pie

You’ll love this lemony, silken, frozen pie and its sweet graham cracker crust.

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Creamy Peanut Butter Pie

This delicious whipped-cream-topped peanut butter pie offers the perfect balance of sweet and salty flavors.

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Chilled Grapefruit-Caramel Meringue Pie

In one cold, creamy dessert, layer pink grapefruit curd in a crunchy graham-cracker crust with caramel sauce and a delicate topping of fluffy meringue.

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Key Lime Pie with Chocolate Almond Crust

Crumbly chocolate almond crust brings this traditional key lime pie to a whole new level.

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French Silk Pie

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A thin layer of rich ganache prevents the chocolate filling from making the crust here soggy. If you don’t want to make your own pie crust, simply use a 9-inch graham cracker crust.

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Bourbon-Pecan Pie

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A supereasy press-in crust means you don't even need a rolling pin for this amazing pecan pie.

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Mountain Rose Apple Pie

Rebecca Masson of Houston’s Fluff Bake Bar tops her dense and delicious apple pie with a thick layer of crisp, buttery crumble.

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Salted Caramel Pie

For this easy caramel pie, the filling is sweetened condensed milk sprinkled lightly with sea salt and baked until thick and gooey, then chilled in a simple graham cracker crust.

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Cherry-Berry Pie

Lattice crust is perfect for this cherry, raspberry and blueberry pie.

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Flaky Pear Pie

Chef Grant Achatz's pie, inspired by his mom's, is as straightforward as it gets, with a melt-in-your-mouth all-shortening crust and a lightly sweetened pear filling with just a hint of spice.

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Banoffee Pie

Dulce de leche, bananas and a thin layer of chocolate make this decadent banoffee (banana-toffee) pie from baker and cookbook author Kamran Siddiqi a standout.

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Deep Dish Strawberry-Rhubarb Pie

This strawberry rhubarb pie recipe is classic and perfectly tart-sweet. The dough can be made with just butter, but swapping in some lard yields an even flakier crust.

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Chocolate Cream Pie

This dreamy, creamy dessert started as a simple chocolate pudding made with workaday cocoa. Melissa Rubel Jacobson turned it into a homey, silky pie by adding a quick chocolate crust and vanilla-flavored whipped cream.

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Coconut Custard Pie

Smooth and sweet, this coconut pie is comforting as ever. And it just takes 30 active minutes to make.

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Spiced Apple Pie with Cheddar Crust

Chef Marcus Samuelsson updates the apple pie–cheddar combo by hiding the cheese in the flaky crust. The filling is tangy and assertively spiced; Samuelsson includes cardamom, a common sweet seasoning in his native Sweden.

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Pumpkin Cream Pie in a Chocolate Crust

Pumpkin pie is not just for Thanksgiving. This silky pumpkin custard is baked in a crispy chocolate cookie crust, then topped with a dollop of tangy crème fraîche topping.

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Georgia Peach Pie

When you slice into this delicious pie, don't be surprised by the gap between the filling and the top crust. This happens when a pie is baked at high heat because the crust sets before the fruit in the filling has cooked down.

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Mom’s Mincemeat Pie

Chef Grant Achatz balances the spicy-sweet fruit filling in his mincemeat pie with rum and brandy; a dollop of crème fraîche would be unorthodox but excellent.

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Deep-Dish Caramel Apple Pie

This mouthwatering deep-dish caramel apple pie is drizzled with a luscious homemade caramel sauce and topped with a crunchy oat streusel.

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Brown Butter Pecan Pie with Espresso Dates

Here, sweet Medjool dates are balanced with bitter espresso and toasty brown butter for a pie that might look familiar but is surprisingly complex.

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Lemon Meringue Pie

A homemade version of creamy sweetened condensed milk gives the tart lemon custard in this pie an especially luscious texture and flavor. The billowy Italian meringue topping browns beautifully under the broiler if you don't have a torch on hand.

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Passion Fruit Ice Cream Pie with Ginger Crust

This isn't the kind of ice cream pie you'd make for a kiddie birthday party. Instead of a plain cookie crust, this is a crispy, chewy one with crumbled gingersnaps, dried pineapple and candied ginger.

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Butterscotch Mousse Pie

With a butterscotch pie base topped with a homemade vanilla cream, all you'll hear will be sighs of dessert-filled satisfaction.

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Banana Cream Pie

A take on the classic, this is rum-spiked custard sandwiched between banana slices and swirls of whipped cream, topped with white chocolate curls.

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Coconut Cream Pie

Every part of this fluffy pie from pastry chef Kierin Baldwin has coconut: the crust, the fillling and the topping.

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Blueberry Pie with Rye Crust

This sensational blueberry pie has small circles cut out of the rye crust, which not only looks dramatic but also allows moisture to evaporate from the fruit filling as it cooks, deepening the flavor.

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Chess Pie with Crème Fraîche and Vanilla

Southerners love chess pie for its sweet and buttery custard filling. In this version, crème fraîche adds a mellow tang and vanilla bean gives the sweetness some character.

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Old-Fashioned Apple Pie

This is a purist’s pie that tastes of nothing but apples, with just a hint of spice and butter.

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Honey-Flower Pie

Christopher Testani

This pie, which combines honey and dried lavender in a silky filling, topped with crunchy sea salt, is best with a mild-tasting honey such as clover, which really lets the lavender shine.