There are those that declare, appropriately, that any Thanksgiving meal solely exists as a warm-up to the principle occasion: pie. I at all times take a maximalist strategy; I’m infamous for skipping the turkey and choosing at the least three pies, only for myself. This yr I centered on acquainted flavors in new kinds, vetting shut to twenty new choices. (Custard, as you’ll see, is large.) I ranked them primarily based on my private desire, however I feel one of the best transfer could be to order one among every and set out a diffusion so everybody can resolve which pies they love finest.
Apple Custard from Mishie’s
Michelle Kogan labored at Del Posto and Torrisi earlier than launching her personal bakery in Sunnyside this fall. She is “really pie obsessed,” she says, and it reveals: Rippled with do-it-yourself apple-cider caramel and topped with gold-leaf-flecked sour-cream rosettes, her custard pie is cradled in a crust made with Cinnamon Toast Crunch. $50 to $150, relying on dimension; mishiessunnyside.com. Orders accepted till offered out.
As an alternative of suspending pecans in a corn-syrup slurry, Miro and Shilpa Uskokovic line their flaky, buttery crust with a dulce de leche–like caramel layer and high it with nut-studded chocolate ganache. $65; hanisnyc.com. Order by November 19.
Two custards — one buttermilk with brown butter and orange zest, the opposite candy potato spiced with nutmeg, allspice, and black pepper — are swirled right into a shell that will get one other dose of buttermilk. $58; elbowbread.store. Order by November 21.
Nutmeg-laced pumpkin custard binds this pie’s crust — brown-butter cookie dough with cocoa powder — to a coating of chocolate ganache that’s unfold throughout the highest. $27 to $55, relying on dimension; thepastrybox.co. Order by November 22.
Katie Kaplan’s bakery is barely a yr outdated, however she’s been perfecting this pie since 2022. The flour within the savory-edged, wheaty crust is stone-milled. The filling, spiked with do-it-yourself apple-cider syrup, has the identical consistency as a McDonald’s pie, which is to say it’s excellent. $65; fillingsnyc.com. Order by November 20.
Citrus could also be a nontraditional Thanksgiving finisher, however Rebecca Newman’s tackle the traditional lemon tart is luscious and light-weight with petals of whipped white chocolate piped on high of the creamy filling to lend simply sufficient additional heft. $70; libraebakery.com; Orders accepted till offered out.
Pictures the Pastry Field, Scott Semler, Librae
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