Pi Day: 10 Favorite Recipes for Early-Spring Pies & Tarts

Looking for special recipes for early-spring pies and tarts? These 10 favorites are extra-relevant when we're between seasons for Pi Day on March 14th. If you'd like to impress everyone at a Pi Day gathering, this hand-curated selection of baked and no-bake pies is perfect for this fun springtime celebration.

A Whole Range of Pies and Tarts, Some With Traditional Pastry, Some with Crumb Crusts, Some With No Crust At All! Instead of Hard-to-Find Fresh Fruit, Most Lean on Pantry Ingredients Like Cream Cheese, Coconut Milk, Chocolate, Peanut Butter and Canned Fruit.

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Pie, Oh My!

Who remembers the sweet 2007 movie "Waitress" where Jenna bakes pies singing a lullaby about baking a pie with a "heart in the middle"?

As a life-long pie baker, this so resonates: because yeah, inside each and every pie is a piece of my heart. That was especially true when my then 90-year old pie-loving father lived with us. It wasn't an entirely easy time: we so needed a little fun in our lives!

So I started to bake a pie every week, we called it #PieDayFriday! Often, leftover pie became Saturday breakfast, too. 🙄

Pie whispers "hey, you're important to me" in a way that cookies, cakes and other sweets just cannot. Pie is so easily seasonal, strawberry in spring, peach in summer, pumpkin in fall, cranberry in winter. Pie feels generous, even a single piece may be shared. (My mom was notorious for taking the "point" from my dad's piece!)

So I do hope you'll join me for the fun that is Pi Day on March 14th. (But no stress over the specific date, trust me.)

A BIT of HISTORY for THIS PAGE I was one of a couple of hundred OG food bloggers. In those early wonderful days, we had zero photography skills but made up for it with a generous, supportive community of curious cooks. A "thing" that food bloggers did back then was to host "events" with a theme. So in 2008, I launched an event, inviting food bloggers (and home bakers!) from across the world to bake pies for Pi Day. And hundreds did! I used a now-defunct tool to keep track of all the entries so sadly, all those pie recipes are lost in the internet. Food blogging is an entirely different business now and so too, is this page. It makes me a little sad but also really proud.

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Quick Links Especially for Pi Day

~ Banana Cream Pudding ~
~ Coconut Cream Pie ~
~ Finnish Fruit Tart ~
~ Frozen Chocolate Peanut Butter Pie ~
~ Easy-Easy Jam Tart ~
~ Last-Minute Pantry Pie ~
~ Lemon Meringue Pie ~
~ Easy Margarita Pie ~
~ Mini Blueberry Tarts ~
~ Fresh Strawberry Pie ~

~ Still More Pies & Tarts, Crusts & More ~

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10 Favorite Recipes for Early-Spring Pies & Tarts

• THE RECIPE Banana Cream Pudding For pie, parfaits, pavlova and even (yummm) plain. (PIN This)
• ANOTHER TAKE Light 'n' Easy Chocolate Pudding Sweet and satisfying but won't ruin your diet. (PIN This)

• THE RECIPE Coconut Cream Pie How to move grown men to silence.
• ANOTHER TAKE Easy-Easy Chocolate Coconut Pudding Just five ingredients and ten minutes to pudding.

• THE RECIPE Finnish Fruit Tart For golden raisins, blueberries, lingonberries, sweet & sour cherries, rhubarb and more ... (PIN This)
• ANOTHER TAKE Derby Pie The classic Southern pie with many names.

• THE RECIPE Frozen Chocolate Peanut Butter Pie A creamy concoction, with just a hint of peanut butter and a drizzle of chocolate.
• ANOTHER TAKE Sweet Potato-Chocolate Swirl Pie A spectacular sweet potato pie, an earthy mix of roasted sweet potatoes and chocolate.

• THE RECIPE Easy-Easy Jam Tart An amazing tart in just 15 minutes!
• ANOTHER TAKE Easy Elegant Fruit Tart with a Shortbread Crust Part tart, part cheesecake, part fruit fest, all impressive, all dramatic.

• THE RECIPE Last-Minute Pantry Pie Just five pantry ingredients. No bake!
• ANOTHER TAKE Blueberry Cheesecake Pie Cheesecake topped with homemade blueberry pie filling. No bake!

• THE RECIPE Lemon Meringue Pie Sunny slivers of the lemony classic.
• ANOTHER TAKE Brown Sugar Lemon Curd My Canadian family's signature recipe. (PIN This)

• THE RECIPE Easy Margarita Pie Tastes just like a good margarita!
• ANOTHER TAKE Mexican Mango Trifle (Ante de Mango) Layers of bread and mango pudding, studded with sherry-soaked raisins.

• THE RECIPE Mini Blueberry Tarts With a "pop" of fresh blueberry right in the middle.
• THE ORIGINAL Finnish Fruit Tart Finns adore this with blueberries. (PIN This)

• THE RECIPE Fresh Strawberry Pie Fresh glazed berries in a homemade chocolate-cookie crust, a real crowd pleaser. (PIN This)
• ANOTHER TAKE Rhubarb Bakewell Tart Sour rhubarb + sweet almond frangipane.

• THE COLLECTION Pies & Tarts, Crusts & More from Kitchen Parade, dozens of recipes from a life-long pie-baker.
• HOW TO CELEBRATE #PieDayFriday week in, week out.

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