Madison, WIPie Shops

Hubbard Avenue Diner is a Middleton comfort-food diner where about ten pie flavors turn in spinning and stationary cases, with monthly specials rotating through, and everything is baked on site. The best-seller is the French silk, a thick chocolate pie under waves of whipped cream and big chocolate curls, and apple, key lime and the Duo of Silks, which works peanut butter into the French silk, are regulars. Order the French silk, or a pie shake, a whole slice blended with vanilla ice cream.

Norske Nook in DeForest is the Madison area's branch of the Wisconsin Scandinavian restaurant and bakery, and it bakes a large array of pies from dough made and rolled by hand, with no fillings from a can. Apple comes in many combinations, and candy-themed pies such as the Butterfinger, with its creamy filling, sit beside the fruit pies, under Norwegian rosemaling designs on the walls and eaves. Order an apple pie or the Butterfinger.

The Rolling Pin Bake Shop is a Fitchburg bakery that turns out pies every day according to the season. Its fruits of the forest pie packs raspberries, blackberries, blueberries, strawberries, apples, rhubarb and cherries into one crust, and the other pies include strawberry rhubarb, cherry, apple, Dutch apple, banana cream, key lime, peach raspberry and blueberry. Order the fruits of the forest pie.

Batch Bakehouse is a bake-from-scratch bakery on Williamson Street that makes pies in full and mini sizes, from petite pies that fit in the palm of a hand to its house specialties, chocolate cream and key lime. Order the chocolate cream or the key lime pie.