Spice up your holiday table with Sofra’s pies for Thanksgiving. Along with pumpkin bread, assorted cookies, and other Turkish- and Middle Eastern-inspired treats, the award-winning bakery is turning out pies with a twist: a Sesame Caramel Pumpkin Pie with tahini caramel custard and candied pepita-sesame crunch; a Brown Butter Pecan Pie with a layer of espresso-infused dates; and an Apple Butter Custard Pie with buttermilk custard and caramelized white chocolate buckwheat crisp. Order online for pickup at the West Cambridge bakery on Tuesday or Wednesday before Thanksgiving.  

With locations sprinkled across Cambridge and Boston, it’s hard not to find a Flour Bakery—and once you’re there, it’s not hard to find something tempting. Among the cookies and muffins you’ll find a regular section of nine-inch pies and slices, including a show-stopping Mile High Lemon Meringue. Each can be ordered by the slice or whole, with 48 hours’ notice. (Bonus: All can be made gluten-free.) Plus, Flour goes all out for holidays, so you can serve acclaimed pastry chef Joanne Chang-approved classics like pumpkin, double-crusted apple, and TCHO Chocolate Cream Pie to your guests. (There’s even an iconic Boston Cream Pie, though let the record show: That’s cake.)

Cambridge’s Hi-Rise Bread Company is offering all the Thanksgiving essentials for pre-order and in-bakery sales, including a towering Apple Pie that somehow packs in three-and-a-half pounds of fresh-cut, local fruit under the crust. There’s more in store, from Pumpkin Pie and Cranberry Crumble to quiches for every taste (toggle to “Thanksgiving Pre-Orders” on the online menu). Order by the Sunday before Thanksgiving for pickup on Wednesday or Thursday at the Porter Square bakery. 

A proper deli will have an enticing case of pies awaiting your selections—and Mamaleh’s is certainly a proper deli. With locations in Cambridge, Brookline, and High Street Place, Mamaleh’s always offers a range of comforting pastries, from Babka Muffins to Sesame Tahini Cookies. The pie game is strong for the holiday season, too: Order online nine-inch pies (or slices) to pick up from your preferred location (or have delivered!) in the days before Thanksgiving. The unique choices include a Charoset-inspired pie of dried currants, golden raisins, apples, pears, cinnamon, and walnuts; Sweet Potato Pie topped with house-made, toasted marshmallow Fluff; and Chocolate-Tahini Swirl.

This year when you’re stopping by Clear Flour Bread for incomparable dinner rolls and breads, you can also pick up festive desserts without (much) special planning. Thanksgiving desserts such as Apple Crumble Pies, Bourbon Pecan and Pear Cranberry Rustic tarts are available first-come, first serve on a rotating schedule beginning November 17 through November 22 (check the Weekly Specials tab for details). That’s when you can also find Pumpkin Pavé, a signature sweet with rich custard filling a crumbly crust—sort of like the ultimate combination of a pie and a cheesecake.

This Inman Square restaurant is actually named for the Puritan Cake Company that once occupied its address, not necessarily the beneficiaries of the first Thanksgiving. But nonetheless Puritan & Co. is well-versed in the season’s flavors, offering a selection of sides and pies for holiday preorder that add a taste of New England to your table. Award-winning pastry chef Brian Mercury helms the baking program here, and the selection of pies for Thanksgiving is classic and classy: Think Dutch Apple Pie, Pumpkin Pie, and Pecan Pie. Don’t forget to add on an order or two of Puritan’s burnished-on-the-outside, fluffy-on-the-inside Parker House Rolls. 

Jacqueline Cain updated this guide.