When you aren’t baking your personal pies and as an alternative need to decide up dessert for Thanksgiving, you’re in luck … however the clock is ticking. Make your pie orders for pickup earlier than the massive day.
Los Angeles is a metropolis of terrific bakeries and bakers, and ice cream makers too. Sure, there may be ice cream pie for Thanksgiving (together with plant-based ice cream), and there may be cheesecake. Conventional pies embody sorghum-sweetened pecan pie, natural heirloom pumpkin pie, chess pie and candy potato ginger pie (and gluten-free chocolate espresso pie). It’s pies galore.
Or, if you wish to get into the kitchen and roll out dough, it’s best to positively try these recipes from cooking columnist Ben Mims for apple, pumpkin and not-too-sweet pecan pie.
Clark Avenue Bakery
Zack Corridor’s string of native bakeries started with bread and, fittingly, might be providing a number of Thanksgiving bread specials along with complete pies. For these seeking to fill out the vacation desk with pull-apart rolls, the baker’s promoting each sesame and plain variations by the dozen ($10) together with loaves of harvest bread studded with cranberry, walnut and golden raisin ($10). With regards to desserts, Clark Avenue is merchandising 9-inch pies in each basic apple and pecan variations (every $48), each made with crusts utilizing Sonora flour from the Tehachapi Heritage Grain Undertaking. Pickup is offered at both the Brentwood or the Echo Park areas Nov. 22 to 24. Orders shut at 5 p.m. Nov. 20. — Stephanie Breijo
Brentwood: 11702 Barrington Court docket, Los Angeles, (424) 248-0262; Echo Park: 331 Glendale Blvd., Los Angeles, (213) 529-4252, clarkstreetbakery.com
Candy potato pie from Cobblermania.
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Cobblermania
The motto of Cobblermania, which sells its goodies in L.A.-area farmers markets, is: “So good you’ll (need to) slap any individual!” Let’s simply say I used to be grateful nobody else was round once I tried them. The $12 cobblers, which have crust bottoms (making them considerably indistinguishable from pie in any sensible means) have been excellent. The strawberry rhubarb properly balances the candy strawberry and weedy bitterness of the rhubarb. The candy potato cobbler, a vacation favourite, is silky easy with loads of heat spices. Proprietor Shae Seward, born and raised in L.A., might be on the Torrance and Hollywood farmers markets this weekend in addition to the Culver Metropolis farmers market on the Tuesday earlier than Thanksgiving for any last-minute dessert wants. She recommends you get there early for those who’ve obtained a specific taste you’ve obtained your eye on, which can embody the flavors named above, in addition to mango-blueberry-peach and a basic peach. — Lucas Kwan Peterson
Hollywood and Costa Mesa ice cream parlor Pricey Bella Creamery is providing a plant-based ice cream pie subsequent week, accessible for each native pickup and nationwide transport.
(Katrina Frederick / Pricey Bella Creamery)
Pricey Bella Creamery
The plant-based Hollywood ice cream store from Belinda Wei and Alice Cherng is providing a Thanksgiving-only ice cream pie that riffs on a chocolaty, nutty basic: turtle pie. Pricey Bella’s model ($35) fills a gluten-free graham cracker crust with vanilla cheesecake ice cream flecked with chocolate-covered pecans, caramel, fudge ribbons and graham cracker crumbs. Preorder for pickup orders on the Hollywood location now by means of Nov. 23; the Costa Mesa store will enable walk-in orders. This frozen pie additionally might be shipped nationwide. The ultimate day to pre-order is Nov. 20; orders should be positioned at the least two days upfront of pickup. — S.B.
Los Angeles: 1253 Vine St., Suite 12, Los Angeles, (323) 848-4672; Costa Mesa: 2930 Bristol St., Unit A103, Costa Mesa, (657) 600-8104; dearbellacreamery.com/online-shop/p/turtlecheesecakepie-pickup
Associates & Household
Roxana Jullapat’s bounteous pastry case is price a go to year-round, however at Thanksgiving the Associates & Household baker is increasing her heirloom-grain choices with complete pies at $60 apiece. This yr’s menu contains sorghum-sweetened pecan pie; natural heirloom-breed pumpkin pie; a basic chocolate chess pie; and a spiced heirloom-apple pie. An add-on pint of contemporary whipped cream is offered for $16. Bread choices embody a sourdough boule ($11), a half-dozen white cheddar biscuits ($24) and a half-dozen pull-apart potato rolls ($22). Associates & Household chef Daniel Mattern is also whipping up a la carte savory sides and salads corresponding to mushroom bread pudding, cranberry dressing and glazed Brussels sprouts. The ultimate day to pre-order Thanksgiving pies and different gadgets from Associates & Household is Nov. 20, with pickup accessible on Nov. 23. —S.B.
5150 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, (323) 668-2000, friendsandfamilyla.com
Hotville Rooster
Kim Prince’s Nashville scorching hen restaurant is providing 9-inch deep-dish pecan pies ($36), 9-inch key lime pies ($40) and slices of chess pie ($7). Prince can be making her banana pudding in two sizes: full ($110, serves 45 to 50!) and half ($65, serves 20). Order by calling the restaurant by means of Monday for pickup between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. on Nov. 23 and between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. on Thanksgiving day. — Jenn Harris
4070 Marlton Ave., Los Angeles, (323) 792-4835, hotvillechicken.com
Sasha Piligian’s Thanksgiving pies, together with a ginger-and-pumpkin selection, might be picked up from new Echo Park cafe Canyon Espresso.
(Sasha Piligian / Could Microbakery)
Could Microbakery
Sasha Piligian’s petal-and-fruit-topped, hyper-seasonal desserts are a few of the most covetable baked items in L.A. — and on Instagram, extra usually — and now the previous Sqirl pastry chef is opening up orders for Thanksgiving pies as nicely. This season, by means of her Could Microbakery operation, she’s providing three pies for the vacation, every priced at $70. The gluten-free chocolate espresso mousse pie incorporates a salted vanilla meringue crust and topping, whereas the candy potato ginger pie includes candy potato custard, gingersnap crust, candied ginger and meringue. For a fruit choice, there’s a See Canyon apple and blackberry pie topped with an amaranth crumble. The final day to order from Piligian is Nov. 19 for pickup on Nov. 23 at Canyon Espresso, where one can regularly find her tea desserts, cookies and different treats within the cafe’s pastry case by the register. — S.B.
1559 Echo Park Ave, Los Angeles, (213) 905-0722, maymicro.getminimart.com
The Pie Room by Gwen
After Australian chef Curtis Stone quickly shuttered his tasting-menu restaurant Maude in 2020, he launched the Pie Room the next yr in the identical area, a bakery and to-go store the place sausage rolls and sticky toffee pudding have been served up alongside Cornish-style pasties and a deep-dish stunner of an apple pie. Nicely, Maude reopened and that may have been that — bye, pie. However the Pie Room by Gwen has returned for Thanksgiving in a brand new location. Order brown butter pumpkin-ginger pie ($55), chocolate toffee pecan pie ($56) or key lime pie ($55) by emailing thepieroom@gmail.com earlier than Nov. 21, for pickup on Nov. 23 or Nov. 24 (Thanksgiving). — Betty Hallock
5373 W. Pico Blvd., Los Angeles
Candy Rose Creamery
In each Santa Monica and the Brentwood Nation Mart, the Rustic Canyon Household’s artisanal ice cream store is serving a cold tackle the basic Thanksgiving pie. Candy Rose Creamery’s ice cream pies value $55 apiece and are available flavors together with pecan pie (brown-sugar ice cream with buttered pecans and fudge in chocolate cookie crust); apple pie (ice cream made with Cuyama Orchards apples and a caramel ripple, topped with salty crumb and caramel sauce); and vegan pumpkin pie (pumpkin ice cream with cinnamon meringue, candied pepitas and cinnamon sugar, all with a ginger-cookie crust). Each outlets additionally promote molasses-and-stout gingerbread cake, accessible with or with out pints of ice cream, plus bake-at-home cinnamon rolls and chocolate chip cookies. Pre-orders finish Nov. 18, however each outlets will supply the seasonal treats for walk-in orders Nov. 21-24. —S.B.
Santa Monica: 2726 Major St., Santa Monica, (310) 260-2663; Brentwood Nation Mart: 225 twenty sixth St., Suite 51, Santa Monica; (310) 260-2663, sweetrosecreamery.com
Yangban Society
Whereas it isn’t precisely pie, Yangban Society is providing its light-as-air, super-creamy whipped cheesecake with butter coconut crust ($68) together with jars of seasonal jam ($10), pear crisps ($48) and spiced apple rum desserts ($38) for the vacations. Orders might be positioned by emailing info@yangbanla.com at the least 48 hours upfront for pickup on or earlier than Nov. 23. — J.H.
712 S. Santa Fe Ave., Los Angeles, yangbanla.com
