The Best Pies to Order Right Now for the Holidays

Sending a fancy gourmet pie for the holidays can be a fantastic luxury gift. Or even just an excellent micro-luxury for you to arrange for your own food joy this holiday season. If you’re all in on this idea, what are the best luxury gourmet sweet and savory pies to order by mail? Our ace correspondent Abbie Martin Greenbaum has curated a list of the 12 best gourmet mail-order pies to order online right now, just in time for the holidays.

What are the Best Pies to order by Mail for the holidays?

We will never say “no” to a good slice of layer cake. Or a cupcake. We’ll stipulate that up front. However, it must be said that we will also happily always cross the street for a good piece of pie.

In fact, pie might be the most underrated dessert of them all. Not only is it versatile – you can fill it with just about anything – but its flaky, buttery crust is hard to beat. And lucky for pie lovers everywhere, fall and winter are pie’s time to shine. We might love cake and ice cream in the summer months, but there’s something about pie that is perfect for the fall and winter holidays. 

If you’re worried about where you might shop at retail for yours this season, given all the coronavirus concerns, there’s no need to fear. These twelve bakeries offer their best delectable pies by mail. Check out the mouth-watering options below, and you’ll be ready for the holiday season before you know it. 

The Best Gourmet Mail-Order Pies to buy Right Now

1. Three Brothers Bakery

How could we not start with the iconic Texas spot Three Brothers Bakery? With boxes proudly marked “Best Mail-Order Pies,” it’s as if they knew we were putting together this guide for you!

Their beloved pecan ($39.99) and chocolate fudge pecan  ($39.99) pies are both available for shipping. And so is the absurd (and absurdly delicious) dessert that made Three Brothers famous: the Pumpecapple Piecake ($399). That’s three enormous layers of cake, stuffed with three entire pies, and topped with cream cheese icing and caramel drizzle. If you want a taste of something you’ll never forget, or a guaranteed way of sweetening up this awful year 2020, then this is the seasonal treat you need.  

BUY NOW – $399.

2. Four & Twenty Blackbirds

Brooklyn’s best pie shop is shipping nationwide on Goldbelly. Choose between five of their best gourmet pies to order by mail ($79 each) – salty honey, blueberry, bittersweet chocolate pecan pie, black bottomed oat pie, and their signature, the salted caramel apple pie – and make the most of this holiday season. 

 

BUY NOW – $79.

3. Milk Bar

Milk Bar has come a long way since they first opened their doors in 2008. But even though their cakes are legend, and you can now find their cookies at Target, we think the Milk Bar Pie ($46) might still be the best item on the menu. And it’s also one of the best mail-order luxury gourmet pies currently available online for the holidays. Gooey, buttery goodness with just the right amount of salt, this pie is unlike anything we’ve ever eaten.

And if you’re craving something autumnal, why not add Milk Bar’s limited edition Pumpkin Pie Dulce De Leche Cake ($54) to your order? You can have the best of both worlds.

BUY NOW – $46.

4. Blue Owl Bakery

Missouri’s Blue Owl Bakery first opened as “From the Kitchen of Mary” in 1983. Almost forty years later, they are still going strong, shipping their best signature Levee High Caramel Pecan ($109) and Levee High Apple Pies ($99) by mail through Goldbelly.

Piles of sweet apple encrusted in a dome of dough, caramel, and pecans: you’ve never seen a pie like this before. You can also choose between a dozen other delicious desserts, including their butterscotch pecan pie ($59) and their pumpkin gooey butter cheesecake ($85).  

BUY NOW – $109.

5. Centerville Pie Co.

Call us crazy, but we don’t think pie has to be limited to the dessert course. Savory pies don’t get nearly enough attention, but the ones at Centerville Pie Co are here to grab the spotlight.

Try the buffalo chicken  or the BBQ pulled pork, or “Oprah’s Favorite” signature chicken pie ($69 each).  If reading this has made you hungry, you may want to select their choose-your-own-adventure two pack ($109) for twice as much pie.

BUY NOW – $109. 

6. Bourke Street Bakery

If we have you feeling ready for savory pies, then here’s a second option for you – Australia’s Bourke Street Bakery is shipping their miniature meat pies from their New York outpost.

We recommend the twelve pack ($149) order of their beef pies: seasoned with onion, celery, garlic, thyme and red wine, you’re definitely going to want to eat more than one. Add these to any holiday meal for a little taste of Aussie comfort food.

BUY NOW – $149.

7. Tatte

One of Boston’s best bakeries, Tatte, is shipping an entire line of holiday fare. Along with their scrumptious-looking apple pie ($35), you can try their pear tart ($40), their pecan tart ($38), and a whole host of other seasonal goodies. Order today and enjoy.

BUY NOW – $35. 

8. Mr. Tod’s

When it comes to pie that tastes so down home you’d swear it was your grandma’s recipe, it doesn’t get any better than Jersey’s Mr. Tod’s. Pies are their specialty, and you can order yours as a 4” or a 10”. Enjoy deciding between over a dozen flavors, including gems like Oreo cream ($35), buttermilk coconut ($45), and the holiday-perfect sweet potato pie with graham cracker bottom ($49). And while you’re at it, you may as well throw in a cheesecake ($75) with your order. ‘Cause why not?

 

BUY NOW – $49. 

9. Dangerously Delicious Pies

Baltimore is home to some pies that are… dangerously delicious. Choose from thirty savory and sweet options on Goldbelly, including pies so imaginative you never would have dreamed them up yourself.

Have you ever heard of a pie stuffed with pancake batter ($69)? Neither had we. Of course, if you’re struggling to make a choice, you can’t go wrong with the Baltimore Bomb Pie ($69), which is filled with fudge, cookies, and vanilla chess. It’s their bestseller.

 

BUY NOW – $69.

10. The Pie Hole

The Pie Hole is the inventor of – you guessed it – the pie hole. These teeny tiny tarts are somewhere between a donut hole and a pie, and you can try every single flavor with this  assorted pack ($69).

But our favorite whimsical offering from the Los Angeles shop is the Cereal Killer Pie ($69). Packed with Fruit Loops and a sweet cream cheese filling, this colorful delight is one of a kind.

 

BUY NOW – $69.

11. Achatz Handmade Pie Co.

Achatz wins the award for attention to detail. Not only do they fill their pies with the best possible ingredients, but they also offer versions with different crusts: single crust, double crust, and even ones made without wheat.

We love their full array of fruit pies, but we were especially happy to see their chocolate cream ($21.99). Topped with whipped cream and chocolate shavings, this is the decadent dessert we want to have at our holiday tables. 

 

BUY NOW – $21.99.

12. Bubby’s

Bubby’s is the place to go in New York City for a little late-night comfort food. And now everyone can enjoy a slice of that experience themselves. We’re rounding out our list of the best gourmet pies available online for delivery by mail this holiday season with Bubby’s. They’re shipping their gourmet sour cherry and apple whiskey crumble pies ($65 each) mail-order to all fifty states, so you can taste a little of that Bubby’s magic no matter where you live.

 

 

BUY NOW – $65.

The Best Gourmet Mail-Order Pies to buy online Right Now for the holidays

Those are our top picks of the best gourmet sweet and savory pies to buy by mail online for the holidays right now. Just don’t forget the ice cream!

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Abbie Martin Greenbaum grew up in New York City and currently lives in Brooklyn, where she drinks a lot of coffee and matches roommates together for a living. At Oberlin College, she studied English and Cinema, which are still two of her favorite things, along with dessert and musical theater. She believes in magic.

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