Baking · Test Kitchen
20 pies our readers can't stop making
A year of comment sections, distilled: the crusts you trust, the fillings you fight over, and the one lattice everyone photographs.
Every week we read the comments so you don't have to. Twelve months in, a pattern emerged: some pies get made once and photographed; others get made every Sunday until the recipe card falls apart. This list is about the second kind.
We ranked by one metric only — how many readers told us they made it again. Here are the top of the class.
1
Salted honey chess pie
The upset of the year. A humble custard pie with no fruit and no lattice out-baked everything glossier — because it takes twenty minutes of work and tastes like it took a day.
Recipe
Brown butter chocolate chunk cookies
2
Any-stone-fruit galette
Technically not a pie, and our readers made it clear they don't care. One shaggy dough, whatever fruit is bruising on the counter, zero crimping anxiety.
Recipe
Raspberry and vanilla layer cake
The best pie is the one you've already memorized.
3
Deep-dish apple with rye crust
The rye flour is doing quiet, brilliant work here — a little bitterness against a lot of apple. The most-photographed lattice in the magazine's history.
Recipe
Buttermilk French toast with caramelised banana
…and 17 more in the full list.
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