Fresh Plum Pie with Coconut Almond Crumb Topping

September 2, 2021

So what’s going on, my pie friend? Are you holding steady in a cool summer groove? Or are you ready to be done with summer and get on with the fall? Part of me sure feels that way. But before we put summer in the rearview mirror, how about we give a shoutout to one of the most underrated pies of summer? That would be plum. Somehow plum pie ends up at the bottom of way too many summer pie…

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The New England Pie Getaway 2019: An Update

January 10, 2019

That’s right – our original dates for The New England Pie Getaway are sold out, so we’ve added a second Getaway the following weekend. Watch the video below for an update. And visit NewEnglandPieGetaway.com for all the details and to download a registration form.

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Live Baking Class this Sunday – and It’s FREE

November 16, 2018

Free baking class at The Pie Academy on Thanksgiving dinner pies

So you have Thanksgiving leftovers – the gravy, the brussels sprouts, corn, greens, all the usual suspects. What are your plans for them? You could do the usual and just let everyone have at ’em, as is, on Thanksgiving weekend. Yawn… OR…you could orchestrate a rousing encore performance, and turn them into a scrumptious pot pie or dinner pie. Now you’re talking. I’ll show you how to do just that this coming Sunday, November 18th. In this live streamed baking…

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Our 5th Annual Lowcountry Pie Getaway Photo Album

October 21, 2018

Courtesy Ken Haedrich, dean of The Pie Academy

This past weekend, October 12th, 13th, and 14th, The Pie Academy held our signature event in Charleston, S.C., everyone’s favorite southern city even those who’ve never been. This is, of course, the big reason we hold our Getaway in Charleston: there’s no place quite like it. Charleston is America’s collective hometown. It has an ineffable pull on anyone who can imagine a time and place where life was a bit slower, a little more sane and genteel, when people stopped…

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Our New Video Course – GREAT AMERICAN CREAM PIES – Is Live

August 11, 2018

The Pie Academy presents Great American Cream Pies

It’s a really big day here at The Pie Academy. After months of planning and production, our new video course is live. In a recent survey, you – our Pie Academy members – told me that you adore cream pies (evidently as much as I do) and you’d love to see a video course all about them. I listened, and got busy. I might have put on a pound or two in the process. Briefly, GREAT AMERICAN CREAM PIES is…

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Crème Fraîche Corn Quiche

July 28, 2018

Creme Fraiche Corn Quiche from The Harvest Baker by Ken Haedrich

This is not the first fresh corn pie recipe you’ve seen here at The Pie Academy and it probably won’t be the last, though, sadly, it will be the last for 2018. Sigh… Forgive me for sulking, but it’s a measure of my love for fresh corn that I can bemoan the passing of corn season even while we’re still in the midst of one. The three dozen ears Bev and I steamed, cut, and tucked away in the freezer…

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The Freezer Fruit Pie Challenge

May 12, 2018

Freezer Fruit Pie at The Pie Academy.com

No sooner had I posted last week’s story about Blueberry Buttermilk Pie than I began to feel a little twitch of guilt about purchasing fresh blueberries for said pie. Yes, they were only a few bucks. But I’m a frugal by osmosis. The son of depression era parents simply doesn’t waste frozen fruit, even odd little baggies of it scattered across the freezer like castoffs from a doomed Arctic expedition. So I took a vow and challenged myself – and…

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Pie Zero to Pie Hero

February 23, 2018

Sound the trumpets, light the fireworks, and dust off your rolling pins…the ebook you’ve been waiting for is ready. So I began this project about six months ago with one purpose in mind – to create a concise, accessible volume that puts home bakers at ease about making pie crust and more pies, sweet and savory. Period. Not those pieces-of-art pies that are everywhere on Instagram and Pinterest. Not fancy ingredient pies. Just pie, as in something-really-good-to-eat, flaky-crusted pie. I’ve…

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The Lowcountry Pie Getaway 2017 in Review

October 14, 2017

The Pie Academy's Lowcountry Pie Getaway

A week ago today, a diverse group of Pie Academy members, including myself and my wife Bev, gathered in Charleston, South Carolina to take part in our 4th annual Lowcountry Pie Getaway. As always, I approached the weekend with a mix of excitement and concern. I love everything about the weekend, but this is our signature event at The Pie Academy and, being something of a worrier, I like to sweat all the stuff, big and small. Will everyone enjoy…

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Sweet Potato Pound Cake with Maple Syrup Glaze

September 3, 2017

Sweet Potato Pound Cake from The Harvest Baker by Ken Haedrich

I’ve had cakes on my mind these last couple of weeks as much as I have pie, in large part because we’ve been sampling cake from The Harvest Baker at book signings here in the south recently. Nobody can question my love of pies, but the cakes in The Harvest Baker are so wildly wonderful and, just as important, most of them travel a heck of a lot better than your typical pie, thus our decision to take along cakes….