What Is Pie filling and How Can I Use It?

If pie filling has turned up in a recipe or caught your eye at the store, here's what you need to use it with confidence and how to choose it, cook it, store it, what to substitute, and 8 recipes to try it in.

Recipes using pie filling

There are 8 recipes that contain this ingredient.

Chef Freddy's Fruited Chicken

Skillet-browned boneless chicken finished in a microwave casserole under a fruit pie filling, white wine, lime juice and warm spice sauce. Sweet, tangy and spiced, served over noodles or rice.

Double Chocolate Pudding Pie

Double chocolate pudding pie layers devil's food and white chocolate fat-free puddings folded with whipped topping in a graham cracker crust. A no-bake 5-ingredient lightened-up dessert.

Easy Double Chocolate Pie

Easy double chocolate pie: chocolate pudding mix boosted with melted semisweet chocolate, poured into a baked crust and chilled until silky. Topped with whipped cream and chocolate curls.

Brownie Crust Pie

Brownie crust pie with a chocolate chip brownie base, creamy no-bake cheesecake filling, and canned pie filling on top. Five ingredients and almost no effort.

Dump-It Cake

Dump cake with pie filling, crushed pineapple, yellow cake mix, and melted butter topped with coconut and nuts. A no-mix dessert where you literally dump everything into the pan and bake.

Joan's Fruit Squares

Simple cookie bars with a cake-like base topped with fruit pie filling and powdered sugar. A vintage sheet pan dessert that feeds a crowd with minimal effort using canned filling.

Dutch Oven Morning Coffee Cake

A campfire coffee cake made in a cast iron Dutch oven with charcoal. Bisquick batter over pie filling, topped with cinnamon sugar and butter. Wake up the whole campsite with this one.

Easy Kolache

Kolache with soft, buttery yeast dough and a center filled with your choice of fruit, jam, or pie filling. A Czech-Texan pastry tradition that makes 18 tender rolls from scratch.

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