Culver City’s Fat + Flour cafe serves classic pies, cookies and biscuits from baker Nicole Rucker.
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16 of L.A.’s best bakeries for holiday pies
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The final flourish for Thanksgiving is invariably pie. You might be making yours from scratch. Or maybe you want to put the task of baking holiday pies in the hands of a professional. If so, you’re in luck ... but the clock is ticking. Make your Thanksgiving pie orders for pickup before the big day.
Los Angeles is a city of terrific bakeries and bakers, and ice cream makers too. Yes, there is ice cream pie for Thanksgiving (including plant-based ice cream), and there are cheesecakes and toffee-drizzled sweet buns. Traditional pies include sorghum-sweetened pecan pie, kabocha pie, chocolate chess pie and spiced apple pie. It’s pies galore.
Or, if you want to get into the kitchen and roll out dough, you should definitely check out cooking writer Carolynn Carreño’s recipes for a you-choose apple crisp, spiced crumble, snickerdoodle cobbler or nutty, gluten-free apple crisp or a Mexican chocolate pecan tart.
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Baking With Ish
San Gabriel Valley Bakery $$
(Ishnoelle Richardson)
Ishnoelle Chin Richardson, who operates his small bakery operation at the Blossom Market Hall, has one of the most impressive pastry counters in the city. Many of his treats are inspired by his Filipino background, celebrating ingredients like ube, coconut and fish sauce in his bakes. The earthy, nutty flavor of ube is the star of Richardson’s ube pumpkin pie, with a bright purple ube custard and pumpkin with whipped cream and toasted pepitas. Richardson is taking holiday orders for the ube pumpkin pie ($60), a biko pie made with coconut sticky rice ($55), dulce pumpkin pecan pie ($60), ube pecan pie ($60) and an ube cheese pie ($55). Orders can be placed on his website for pickup Nov. 26 and 27.
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Clark Street Bakery
Echo Park Bakery $$
(Clark Street Bakery)
Zack Hall’s string of local bakeries began with bread and, fittingly, will be offering Thanksgiving bread specials in addition to whole pies. For those looking to fill out the holiday table with pull-apart rolls, the baker’s selling them by the dozen ($10), along with the bakery’s usual roster of whole loaves. When it comes to desserts, Clark Street is vending 9-inch pies in classic apple ($60), pumpkin ($48) and pecan ($48) versions, made with crusts using Sonora flour from the Tehachapi Heritage Grain Project. Pickup is available at the Brentwood, Echo Park, Larchmont and Beverly Hills bakeries on Nov. 26 and 27. Orders close Nov. 22 for Nov. 26 pickup, and Nov. 23 for Nov. 27 pickup.
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Fat + Flour
Culver City Bakery $$
(Stephanie Breijo / Los Angeles Times)
The micro-bakery from Nicole and Blaine Rucker has a slate of seasonal pies ready to impress everyone at your holiday gatherings, but you’ll need to act fast before they sell out. Most presale pies are already out of stock at the Culver City location, save key lime ($45) and chocolate chess ($45). The downtown outpost in Grand Central Market still has most options available, including the same chocolate chess and key lime pies, as well as pumpkin pie with cream cheese custard ($50), spiced apple pie baked under a cream cheese crumble ($60), a chocolate pecan pie with Zab’s hot honey ($60), an apple butter buttermilk pie with buttermilk cheese custard layered over apple butter in an all-butter crust ($50) and a spiced pear and cranberry crumble pie ($60). The bakeshop is also selling prerolled, ready-to-bake pie dough. Preorders should be placed online by Nov. 21 for pickup from the downtown or Culver City location on Nov. 26.
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Friends & Family
East Hollywood Bakery $$
(Jakob N. Layman / Friends & Family)
Roxana Jullapat’s bounteous pastry case is worth a visit year-round, but at Thanksgiving, the Friends & Family baker is expanding her usual heirloom-grain offerings with whole pies between $62 and $65 apiece. This year’s menu includes sorghum-sweetened pecan pie, a sweet potato and organic pumpkin pie topped with torched marshmallow, quince and apple streusel pie, a classic chocolate chess pie, cranberry brown butter pie and heirloom apple pie. Bread options include a sourdough boule ($12), a half-dozen white cheddar biscuits ($28), a fresh baguette ($6.50) and a half-dozen pull-apart potato rolls ($26). Chef Daniel Mattern also is whipping up à la carte savory sides and salads such as mushroom bread pudding, herbaceous turkey gravy, cranberry dressing and balsamic-glazed Brussels sprouts. The final day to order Thanksgiving pies and other items from Friends & Family is Nov. 23, with pickup on Nov. 26 from the Hollywood location.
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Fountain of Sweets
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(Fountain of Sweets)
My 2 Cents, a pioneering soul food institution on West Pico Boulevard, closed earlier this year, but chef Alisa Reynolds’ L.A.-inspired menu is still available for catering, including a host of delectable desserts made by her sister Theresa Fountain. For Thanksgiving, choose from sweet potato pecan, pumpkin, apple crumble and key lime pies for $55 each. Preorders can be made by emailing sweets@fountainofsweets.com or sending an Instagram DM and should be placed by Nov. 22 for pickup on Nov. 26. The regular menu of cakes, cookies and fan-favorite sweets like crack cake and peach cobbler are also available and can be ordered via the website. Pickup address will be provided after purchase.
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Helms Bakery
Culver City Bakery $$
(Stephanie Breijo / Los Angeles Times)
The sprawling Culver City market and cafe from chef Sang Yoon has Thanksgiving covered, whether you’re in need of a full spread with a prebrined and trussed Mary’s Free Range turkey, à la carte sides like Parker house rolls or milk bread stuffing, or a host of sweets to fill out the dessert table. The bakery is offering classic pies including pumpkin ($48), pecan ($52) and a towering double-crust heirloom apple pie ($80), as well as a pumpkin cheesecake ($65) and maple custard pie ($48). Take-and-bake chocolate chip ($28) and pecan molasses ($25) cookies are available to order by the half-dozen, as well as vanilla bean and maple honey whipped cream for topping off your sweets. Place orders online for pickup on Nov. 26 and 27.
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Jyan Isaac Bread
Santa Monica Bakery $$
(Joy Limanon)
Baker Jyan Isaac Horwitz launched his sourdough business during the pandemic, quickly outgrew his home kitchen and opened his own bakery on Ocean Park Boulevard in 2021. As Horwitz continues to expand, servicing several farmers markets across Los Angeles, so does the menu. In addition to sourdough bagels and loaves of bread such as whole grain porridge, brioche, babka and rugbrod, Horwitz’s menu includes more baked sweets and viennoiserie. This year there are Thanksgiving pies: apple and sage crumble pie, cranberry meringue pie and pumpkin and persimmon custard pie. Prices for pies are $52 to $62 and can be picked up Nov. 20 to Nov. 27. Bagel kits, boxes of croissants and long-loaf challah are also available for the holiday.
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The Pie Room by Curtis Stone
Hollywood Bakery $$
(Andrea D’Agosto)
Chef Curtis Stone’s apple pie is a Thanksgiving classic: dense with apple filling that’s buttery, cinnamon-y and bolstered with salted caramel, encased in a thick, flaky, golden crust. The salted caramel apple pie — along with pumpkin pie with gingersnap crumb and mascarpone cream and pecan pie with pear and bourbon caramel — are available to order online until Sunday, Nov. 23. You can pick them up at the Pie Room by Curtis Stone in Beverly Hills on Nov. 25, and Nov. 26, from 10:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Nov. 27, 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Pickup is also available at Gwen’s Butcher Shop in Hollywood on Nov. 25 and 26 from noon to 7 p.m. Prices are $80 for a whole pie. Parker House dinner rolls are $14 for a four-pack.
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Proof Bakery
Atwater Village Bakery $$
(Proof Bakery)
This year’s Thanksgiving pie selection at Proof Bakery includes red kuri — the teardrop-shaped squash related to kabocha pumpkin. When baked, both have a sweet, nutty flavor that resembles roasted chestnuts. It’s one of the best pumpkin pies in the city, with a filling that is well-spiced, caramel-y, and so custardy it’s almost jiggly. It also comes with whipped crème fraîche topping. The crust is buttery, crisp and well-browned even on the bottom and in the center. In addition to red kuri, apple-blueberry pie, chocolate espresso chess pie, honeynut squash galette and cranberry tart are also available. So are apple-sesame and chocolate-ginger-rye loaf cakes; chocolate-passion fruit and pistachio-blackberry 8-inch round cakes; Basque cheesecake; sourdough dinner rolls and honey cornbread. You also can preorder pastries such as croissants, scones, biscuits and cookies by the half-dozen. Order online for pickup on Nov. 26. Prices are $17 to $64.
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République
Hancock Park French Bakery $$$
(République)
Picking up sweets from the bakery at République is always a pro move. A decade in and fans still line up on a daily basis for a glimpse of the pastry case helmed by James Beard Award-winning pastry chef and co-owner Margarita Manzke, and her baked goods are out in full force during the holiday season. This year, she and her team are offering a plethora of pies for Thanksgiving, including all the festive classics — pecan, apple and pumpkin, plus a Filipino stalwart, buko pie — in addition to a few lighter fruit options such as strawberry passion fruit cream pie and banana cream pie (all $54 apiece). Spruce it up with a side of fresh vanilla whipped cream for $10, or opt for whole cakes such as Basque cheesecake ($80), three-layer salted caramel chocolate cake ($84-$115) or berry tres leches ($68). What’s more, the restaurant’s cookbook, “Baking at République,” can be purchased on-site for $30 and makes a great hosting gift or baking reference year-round. Next-day orders can be picked up from the restaurant in designated time slots through Nov. 26.
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Sasha Piligian (formerly May Microbakery)
Echo Park Bakery $$
(Sasha Piligian / May Microbakery)
Sasha Piligian’s petal and fruit-topped, hyper-seasonal cakes are some of the most coveted desserts in L.A., and in fall, the former Sqirl pastry chef’s gorgeous baked goods can be ordered as Thanksgiving pies. This year, she’s offering three pies for the holiday, each priced at $70. You can secure a See Canyon apple and fig leaf pie topped with brown sugar crumble; a sweet potato tahini pie that tops a Her Produce sweet potato custard with salted tahini whip, both in a buttery Sonora-flour crust. For something tart and tangy, there’s a Key lime passion fruit pie with house-made graham cracker crust and meringue. The last day to order from Piligian is Nov. 21 (or until sellout) for pickup on Nov. 26 at either Canyon Coffee in Echo Park — where one can regularly find her tea cakes, cookies and other treats in the cafe’s pastry case by the register — from noon to 2 p.m., in Altadena at Altadena Beverage from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., or in the Arts District at Crafted Kitchen from 10 a.m. to noon.
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SweetBoy
Hollywood Hills West Bakery $$
(Mike Cotrone)
Ben Sidell helms the desserts program at Saltie Girl, the East Coast-style seafood restaurant owned by his mother, Kathy Sidell. Regular menu items include a warm chocolate chip cookie with Valrhona chocolate and a sweet bun crowned with toffee drizzle at brunch. For the holidays, Ben is offering apple caramel crumble pie with oat granola ($48), pecan pie ($50) and a pumpkin caramel pie ($50), plus his signature sweet buns ($18) and a Thanksgiving cookie tin ($48) with pumpkin spice snickerdoodle, apple pie, maple pecan corn, sweet potato marshmallow, walnut toffee chip and ginger molasses cookies stacked inside. Place orders online for pickup at Saltie Girl on Nov. 26 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. The Thanksgiving cookie tin is also available for national delivery, with orders shipped on Nov. 24.
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Sweet Rose Creamery
Santa Monica Ice cream Bakery $$
(Katrina Frederick / Sweet Rose Creamery)
The Rustic Canyon Family’s artisanal ice cream shop in Brentwood Country Mart is serving a chilly take on the classic Thanksgiving pie. Sweet Rose Creamery is vending a variety of ice cream pies in flavors such as pecan featuring brown sugar ice cream with maple-glazed pecans and fudge in chocolate cookie crust; fresh-apple ice cream with salted crumb and caramel sauce in a graham cracker crust; and a pumpkin version with dairy-free pumpkin ice cream, coconut whipped cream, salty pepitas and cinnamon in a ginger-cookie crust. Whole pies are $60 apiece, but slices will be available for walk-in orders. Pickup available Nov. 24-26.
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27th Street Bakery
Central-Alameda Bakery $
(Danielle Dorsey / Los Angeles Times)
There may be no better destination for sweet potato pies than this legendary South L.A. bakery that claims to be the largest supplier on the West Coast. The signature flavor can be ordered small ($4.50) or large ($25), or in a sugar-free version with agave ($28). Pecan and sweet potato pecan round out the pie options, but the menu also spans a variety of cheesecakes; peach cobbler; cakes in flavors such as German chocolate, red velvet, carrot and lemon bundt; and old-fashioned tea cakes with fresh lemon (3 for $9).
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Valerie Confections
Pasadena Bakery $$
(The Creator Code)
Over the last two decades, Valerie Gordon has become one of the best-known names and faces in L.A. desserts. Her Glendale location is a 5,000-square-foot bakery and chocolate shop, while Valerie Echo Park is a bustling cafe. This year, she is offering a handful of pies, cheesecakes and her signature Blum’s Coffee Crunch cake for pickup at both locations Nov. 24 through 26. Her holiday pies include pumpkin ($55), apple and salted caramel ($65) and salted maple chess pie ($55).
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Yvonne's Vegan Kitchen
Pasadena Vegan Bakery $$
(Yvonne Ardestani)
Yvonne’s Vegan Kitchen is a sliver of a dessert shop in Pasadena, just south of Old Town. Owner Yvonne Ardestani makes an array of gluten-free and vegan cakes, pies, cookies, scones, doughnuts and cupcakes. For the holidays, Ardestani is making both apple and berry crumble pies ($68); cookies and cream pie ($80); pumpkin pie ($68); Samoa pie, with chocolate, caramel and coconut flavors that mimic the Girl Scout cookies of the same name ($82); ube pie ($83); and pandan pie ($83). The pies are available for preorder through Nov. 21 for pickup or delivery the week of Thanksgiving.
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Updates:
2:32 p.m. Nov. 14, 2025: This guide was originally published in 2023 and has been updated with new information, including the removal of All Day Baby, Yangban and Pop Pie, and the addition of Fountain of Sweets, Valerie Confections, Yvonne’s Vegan Kitchen and 27th Street Bakery.
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