As Thanksgiving approaches, there’s no higher approach to showcase your baking prowess than by crafting the proper pie or tart from scratch. The aroma of a recent bake both with a buttery, golden Pâte Brisée or an ideal, flaky piecrust is sufficient to entice anybody at your subsequent gathering. Discover your subsequent favourite recipe from this checklist!
1. Deep-Dish Chocolate Chunk Pecan Pie – The one factor that might make golden, wealthy pecan pie higher? Chocolate chunks, stirred into the divinely candy filling, in fact. With our Deep-Dish Chocolate Chunk Pecan Pie, you possibly can fulfill any candy craving!
2. Apple Crumb Pie – Conventional apple pie will get an updo with a creamy crème fraîche custard filling on this Apple Crumb Pie. Layers upon layers of crisp candy apples are topped with a creamy base and baked till smooth. With a splash of spiced rum and a crunchy Almond Streusel topping, this recipe begs for ice cream.
3. Banana Pudding Meringue Pie – A basic turned the other way up, our scrumptious tackle this fruit-studded cream pie impressed by Erin Jeanne McDowell’s #mydreampie problem is completely bananas. Vanilla wafers are crumbled right into a fluffy meringue, which is piped right into a pie plate after which baked. The vanilla-scented meringue shell turns each crunchy and chewy—a flawless vessel for holding creamy do-it-yourself vanilla pudding and fresh-cut banana slices. A particular shout out to Rose Levy Beranbaum for this unimaginable meringue shell approach.
4. Triple-Chocolate Pie – Some days require chocolate; others name for triple chocolate. A crunchy, press-in crust is crammed with a silky bittersweet chocolate custard and a fluffy, cocoa-scented Swiss meringue topping creates this Triple-Chocolate Pie. “It’s a chocolate lover’s dream, and I might know—I come from a protracted line of them.” – Kate Wooden of The Wooden and Spoon
5. Candy Potato Tart – A twist on the basic candy potato pie, our tart has a speculoos cookie crust crammed with vanilla bean seed-speckled candy potato filling and garnished with a billowy meringue that’ll encourage solely the fluffiest of marshmallow fantasies.
6. Honey Nut Pie – If you happen to like a pie with some crunch, that is the recipe for you. Our remix on the basic pecan pie abounds with texture. Easy orange blossom honey and a young Pâte Brisée crust soften the distinctive mix of pine nuts, hazelnuts, pecans, and walnuts.
7. Purple Velvet Cheesecake Tart – The flavors of pink velvet cake meet cheesecake in a showstopping tart. So as to add an edible optical phantasm, the filling is swirled on prime, however as soon as sliced it maintains good pink and white stripes. With a no-bake filling, this tart not solely is beautiful to have a look at, however it comes collectively in file time.
8. Candy Potato Pecan Pie – Our Candy Potato Pecan Pie is a wonderful mash-up of two favorites. This spiced, pecan-studded, candy potato pie packs one of the best of each southern desserts into one slice.
9. Spiced Chocolate Fudge Pie – Guajillo chili and cayenne pepper give this fudge pie spicy depth and a kick. Velvety cocoa notes and a light-weight dusting of confectioners’ sugar curb the warmth. 
10. Appeltaart (Dutch Apple Tart) – Impressed by the world-famous appeltaart at Amsterdam’s Winkel 43, this recipe is every little thing an appeltaart must be: a buttery, tender crust brimming with sizeable items of fragrant spiced apple. Baking the apple chunks earlier than assembling ensures a hefty filling with peak whereas stopping a soggy backside.
11. Candy Potato Hand Pies – The right pastry package deal, these Candy Potato Hand Pies conceal the welcome shock of a spiced brown sugar-laden candy potato filling. Drizzled with a heat glaze, every one is the buttery celebration of autumn’s sweetest tuber.
