A great pie is a from-scratch crust and real fruit or custard — a world away from the corn-syrupy, shortening-crusted supermarket version. These independent pie shops flash-freeze theirs and ship it on dry ice, so a genuinely good pie can arrive at your door for the holiday.
Published July 2026 · Updated 7 Jul 2026
A Georgia pie company baking from-scratch fruit and custard pies and shipping them frozen on dry ice, good for up to six months in your freezer. Southern pie done properly, mailed anywhere.
Why it isn't on AmazonA from-scratch pie shop ships frozen direct because there's no shelf-stable version of real butter crust and fresh fruit.
See it at Southern Baked Pie Company →The Brooklyn sisters' pie shop that helped spark the craft-pie revival, known for salted caramel apple and inventive seasonal fillings, shipped nationwide. As pedigreed as a mail-order pie gets.
Why it isn't on AmazonSmall-batch seasonal pies from a chef-driven shop are a craft product — the opposite of a supermarket freezer pie.
See it at Four & Twenty Blackbirds →A New York pie shop with a devoted following for its all-butter crusts and classic-done-right fillings (bourbon pecan, apple, silky custards), shipped out. Serious, unfussy, excellent pie.
Why it isn't on AmazonAll-butter, from-scratch pie is a perishable craft made in small runs — it reaches you frozen and direct, not off a shelf.
See it at Petee's Pie Company →A Michigan family pie company hand-making fruit and cream pies with recipes from the family kitchen, shipped frozen nationwide. Midwest fruit-pie tradition you can order in.
Why it isn't on AmazonA family pie company hand-crimping fruit pies ships frozen because handmade crust and real fruit don't keep on a shelf.
See it at Achatz Handmade Pie Co. →A northern-Michigan company built on the region's cherries and fruit, shipping its pies nationwide. The place to get a real Michigan cherry pie sent anywhere.
Why it isn't on AmazonRegional fruit pies built on local cherries are a place-specific product a national brand can't replicate.
See it at Grand Traverse Pie Company →This seat's open on purpose — we won't pad the list to hit a number. If you ship real pie direct, it's earned, not sold.
Add your brand →Bakeries flash-freeze the finished pie, pack it in an insulated box with dry ice, and ship it one to two days. It arrives frozen solid and travels far better frozen than fresh. You thaw it, or bake it off from frozen, at home.
It depends on the maker — some ship fully baked (thaw and serve or warm), others ship par-baked or unbaked to finish in your oven. The unbaked kind gives you a fresh-from-the-oven pie; the pre-baked kind is more convenient. Each shop's page says which.
Frozen, most keep two to six months without quality loss — which is why you can order ahead for a holiday. Once thawed, treat it like any fresh pie: a few days refrigerated for fruit and custard pies.
Real fat — usually all butter, sometimes leaf lard — cut into flour and kept cold, so it bakes up flaky rather than the mealy, shortening-and-corn-syrup texture of commodity crust. A good crust is the whole difference between a pie you finish and one you scrape the filling out of.
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