Pies

We. Love. Pies. 

We're not kidding. We make over 70,000 pies a year! Grandma made pie for Sunday dinner. Now we make Grandma's pie the same way — from scratch! We use fresh or fresh-frozen fruit that we sweeten and thicken ourselves. We use palm shortening (trans-fat free) for our crusts, and we never use preservatives. Our Very Berry pie was named "Best Pie East of the Mississippi by Sustainable Table's Pie Across America! 

Most of our pies are available year-round, and fruit pies are also available frozen to bake at home:

  • French silk

  • key lime

  • lemon meringue

  • peanut butter

  • pecan

  • rhubarb custard

  • strawberry rhubarb

  • very berry

  • apple

  • apple crumb

  • banana cream

  • blueberry

  • caramel apple

  • cherry

  • cherry crumb

  • chocolate cream

  • coconut cream

 

Seasonal pies:

  • blackberry

  • holiday mint

  • mint french silk

  • peach apricot

  • peach

  • pumpkin

  • red raspberry

  • rhubarb

  • strawberry whipped pie

  • sweet potato

Our pies are available in 6" and 9" sizes.

We also offer sugar-free pies made with Splenda®, available in apple, cherry, pumpkin (in season), and other seasonal specials. Purchase frozen and ready to bake, or order in advance.

Cream pies are topped with meringue, and we can substitute non-dairy whipped topping upon request.

Gluten Free pies are available in limited quantities - check with the store for more details.

Farm-Fresh Pies

When you enjoy one of our delicious pies, you're also supporting local growers, families, and neighbors. We freeze over 3500 pounds of fresh Northwest Indiana blueberries from Blue Sky Berry Farm during blueberry season so we can bake with them all year!

We also store red raspberries, rhubarb, and zucchini, along with other items from our extended family's farm — Johnson's Farm Produce, located next door to us.

Thawing/Baking Frozen Pies/Ingredients

Baking Fruit Pies

Follow these simple instructions to bake our delicious pies to perfection:

  1. Preheat the oven to 425°F. Remove plastic and place your frozen pie on a baking sheet. Do not thaw the pie.

  2. Bake in the middle of the oven on a baking sheet for approximately 35-60 minutes more the pie bubbles in the center. Remember: every oven is different. If you notice the crust is getting a little dark, protect it by covering the edges with tin foil.

Thawing Other Pies

Pumpkin, Pecan and French Silk are ready to eat and do not require baking. Thaw these at room temperature for 2 hours or overnight in the refrigerator. Marilyn's special Thanksgiving trick: after cooking dinner, turn the oven off and insert the thawed pies to warm during dinner. When you are then ready for dessert, you’ll have a warmed delicious pie ready to enjoy!

Pie Ingredients

Pie dough: Pastry flour, palm shortening, water, sugar, salt. ** Do to vendor substitutions, pie dough made October 15-December 2024 may contain soy. This is a temporary substitution. **

Fruit pies: Fresh frozen fruit, sugar, instant starch, salt, lemon juice. Apple also contains cinnamon, Cherry contains almond emulsion, Strawberry Rhubarb contains orange emulsion. There is an eggwash on top of the pies to help with browning. Order in advance to make it a vegan pie.

Crumb topping: Flour, brown sugar, butter blend, PECANS

Cream pies: Water, sugar, cooked gel, egg yolks, butter blend, milk powder. Lemon contains lemon juice (no milk powder), Chocolate contains fudge chocolate base. We also offer cream filling with coconut and peanut butter. These pies are topped with meringue (egg whites) or non-dairy whipped topping

French Silk: Sugar, salted butter, whole pasteurized eggs, fudge chocolate base. French Silk cups have a crushed Oreo bottom. Topped with non-dairy whipped topping

Key Lime: Sweetened condensed milk, FL key lime juice. Topped with non-dairy whipped topping

Pumpkin: Pumpkin, sugar, milk, 1/2 & 1/2, eggs, cinnamon, salt, ginger, nutmeg. Offered with non-dairy whipped topping

Pecan: Eggs, sugar, corn syrup, pecans, vanilla extract, salt