The ultimate Blueberry Pie Recipe! It’s simple to make, bursting with sweet, juicy berries and topped with a classic lattice crust. All you need is a generous scoop of vanilla ice cream over your warm slice of pie.
We love making pies from scratch, from Classic Pumpkin Pie to Apple Pie. If you’re a fan of homemade pies, then this blueberry pie recipe is a must, especially when fresh blueberries are in season. Watch my video tutorial and see how it’s done.

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Blueberry Pie Recipe
When blueberries are in season, I can’t resist buying a few pints for snacking and several more for this old-fashioned blueberry pie recipe. While other fruit pies require a lot of prep work—pitting (Cherry Pie), peeling (Peach Pie) and slicing—making blueberry pie filling is practically effortless. Wash the berries, then toss them with the other ingredients and you’re done. So easy!
And this leaves you more time to focus on the crust. I always use my favorite Pie Crust Recipe, which is easy to make, buttery, and perfectly flaky. You simply can’t get the same flavor and texture from storebought refrigerated rolls of pie crust.
Blueberry Pie Video Tutorial
Watch how to make this easy blueberry pie recipe then go forth and bake. There are so many reasons to love this recipe:
- Juicy berries – Every bite is literally bursting with blueberry flavor.
- Buttery crust – The crust is made with real butter instead of oil or shortening, which means it’s extra delicious.
- Satisfying – Maybe it sounds strange, but weaving that lattice crust is actually kind of fun—and nothing beats the sense of accomplishment you’ll feel when you pull this perfect blueberry pie out of the oven.
- Classic summer dessert – Making blueberry pie should be on everyone’s summer bucket list.

Ingredients
Scroll down to the recipe card below this post for ingredient quantities and full instructions.
- Pie crust – We use our go-to recipe for pie crust. You’ll need two crusts, one for the bottom and one for the top.
- Blueberries – Buy sweet juicy berries and get organic if you can (see tips below on selecting sweet blueberries).
- Lemon – Both the zest and the juice; zest the lemon first, then juice it.
- All-purpose flour – This thickens the filling as the berries release their juices.
- Sugar – You can adjust this and use more if your berries are tart, or less if your berries are especially sweet.
- Cinnamon – It compliments blueberries beautifully for a classic blueberry pie flavor.
- Egg – Whisk this with water to create an egg wash for the crust.

Tools for Homemade Pie
- 9-inch, deep pie pan – This allows for A TON of blueberries!
- Rolling pin – A simple one will do.
- Food processor – Or use a pastry cutter to cut the butter into the flour.
Pro Tip: I like using a food processor to work the butter into the flour for the crust, but a pastry blender will also work. Dip it in flour first to keep the butter from sticking; if the butter still gets stuck in it, you can use a butter knife to push it out.
How to Make Blueberry Pie
It’s time to roll up your sleeves and get baking. Here’s what you’ll need to do.
- Make the crust – Follow the pie crust recipe and chill the two disks of dough for an hour. Roll the first disk into a 13-inch circle and carefully transfer it to a 9-inch pie pan.
- Prepare the lattice strips – Roll the remaining pie crust into a 12-inch circle. Use a pizza cutter to slice it into 10 strips (1-inch wide).
- Preheat the oven – Position a rack in the center of the oven and preheat to 375ºF.
- Make the filling – Toss together the blueberries, lemon zest, lemon juice, sugar, flour, and cinnamon in a large mixing bowl. Transfer this mixture into the pie crust, mounding it slightly in the center.
- Weave the lattice crust – Use the strips of dough to create a lattice top, then pinch the edges to seal the crust and crimp.
- Make the egg wash – Brush the egg wash over the top crust.
- Bake – Bake the pie for 50 to 60 minutes, or until the crust is golden and the blueberry filling is bubbling.

How to Create a Lattice Pie Crust
You can read the instructions for making a lattice-top pie crust and it probably won’t make any sense to you until you see it in pictures—and then you’ll say, “Aha! I get it now!” So look at the pictures, read over these steps, and then try it for yourself.
- Place 5 strips of dough over the pie crust, with the longer strips in the center and shorter strips towards the edges.
- Fold back every other strip halfway and place a long strip in the center perpendicular to the first 5 strips.
- Fold the strips back over the new line and fold back the alternate strips. Continue adding and alternating strips, then switch to the other side of the pie and continue until the lattice is complete.
Click here for my full, step-by-step tutorial on How to Make a Lattice Pie Crust.

Pro Tip: For a little sparkle and extra sweetness, you can sprinkle the top crust with coarse sugar before baking. Sugar in the raw, turbinado sugar or sanding sugar will all work.
Common Questions
While cornstarch works, I prefer thickening fruit pies with flour because the consistency seems better.
Look for berries that are plump and deep, dark blue. A silvery coating on the outside of the berry is fine, but if the berries are light purple, pinkish, or green, they’re not fully ripe and won’t be very sweet.
You can make a blueberry pie with frozen blueberries without thawing them first. Note that it may take slightly longer for the blueberries to bubble at the top.
You can make this recipe work for an 8-inch deep pie pan, or 10-inch pie pan by rolling out the crust smaller or bigger. Avoid short pie pans which will overflow with this quantity of blueberries.
If you double this recipe, you’ll need to make two pies instead of one.

Make-Ahead
Here’s how to store and reheat blueberry pie:
- To Refrigerate: You can make the dough for the pie crust up to 3 days in advance and store it in the refrigerator.
- Freezing: The finished pie can be wrapped tightly and frozen for up to 2 months. You can also freeze individual slices if you have leftovers.
- To Reheat: Let a frozen pie thaw in the refrigerator. I love to warm up my slice in the microwave just until heated through (35-45 seconds) or warm it up in a 325ºF oven.

This blueberry pie is easy to make, and you’ll love the juicy filling and irresistibly flaky crust. It’s sure to become a summertime tradition!
More Blueberry Recipes to try
If you love this blueberry pie, then you won’t want to miss these reader-favorite blueberry recipes:
- Blueberry Crumble
- Lemon Blueberry Cake
- Blueberry Muffins
- Blueberry Smoothie
- Pierogi with Blueberries
Blueberry Pie Recipe

Ingredients
- 1 recipe for pie crust, yields 2 crusts
- 6 cups blueberries, rinsed and well drained, (2 lbs or 32 oz)
- 1 tsp lemon zest , from 1 lemon
- 2 Tbsp lemon juice, freshly squeezed
- 4 1/2 Tbsp all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 egg , + 1 Tbsp water, for egg wash
Instructions
- Roll the second crust into a 12" circle and use a pizza cutter to slice into ten 1-inch strips.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine 6 cups blueberries, 1 tsp lemon zest, 2 Tbsp lemon juice, 1/2 cup granulated sugar, 4 1/2 Tbsp flour, 1 tsp cinnamon and toss to combine. Transfer blueberries into the dough-lined pie pan, mounding it just slightly in the center and keeping the edges clean of blueberry juice.
- Using the 10 strips of dough, create a lattice crust over the top: Place 5 strips of dough evenly over the pie, with the longer strips in the center. Fold back every other strip halfway and place a long strip in the center perpendicular to the first 5 strips. Fold the strips back over the new line and fold back the alternate strips. Continue adding and alternating strips, then switch to the other side of the pie and continue until the woven lattice is finished. Pinch the edges to seal then crimp for a fluted pattern.
- Beat together 1 egg and 1 Tbsp water and brush the egg wash over the lattice crust and edges. Bake in the center of the oven at 375˚F for 50-60 minutes, or until the crust is golden and blueberry juice is bubbling at the edges.
hi Natasha
Hoping to try this blueberry pie recipe tomorrow although I do have one question since we don’t have lemons in our country what can i substitute it with??
Hi Varena, we love it with lemon zest but you are welcome to omit that, I think it would still work without the lemon.
This blueberry pie was magnificent…I substituted orange zest for lemon zest as I had only that….Thank you for sharing this well worth the effort to make….
YOu’re welcome, Jeff! I’m so happy you enjoyed this recipe!
these pies look awesome but that isn’t surprising because everything I see on you site is delicious. I do have a question though, can I use the same recipe for the Bluberry pie using fresh frozen blackberries instead?
Hi Laura, I haven’t tested this with blackberries to advise but I bet that could work! One of our readers wrote in with the following: “I tried this recipe with wild blackberries. It’s so delicious” I hope that helps!
What if we don’t have a pie dish?
Hi! the exact same pan is not necessary but it should be a deep dish pie pan.
The best blueberry pie I have ever had. The filling was perfect.
I’m so happy you enjoyed this recipe Sean!
can you use frozen blueberries in your pie And if so, does it change the flour or sugar measurements?
Hi Cathy, When blueberries are in season, we use fresh blueberries but you can make a blueberry pie with frozen blueberries without thawing first, but it may take slightly longer for the blueberries to bubble at the top. That’s about it and hope it turns out great!
Hi Natasha! I don’t have fresh blueberries to try out your recipe, but I was wondering if I could use your pie crust recipe and use another filling. For example rhubarb pie but with this crust? Or is the crust only meany for this blueberry recipe?
Thanks in advance 😊
That should work, please share with us how it goes.
First time I ever made a pie
Best pie I have ever eaten.
Home grown blueberries but I cheated by using store bought crusts
Thank you
You’re welcome! I’m so happy you enjoyed it
This was pretty darn good. I’m a home cook/baker/canner, I usually don’t tread away from my crust recipe, but did try yours and it was very good. The pie turned out well also. I’d leave a pic if I could. Thanks for sharing.
Yay so awesome! You can share pictures of your creation on our Facebook page and group. Thanks for giving this recipe an excellent review.
I made the blueberry pie and it came out runny and made the bottom crust very soggy. What did I do wrong?
Hi Kathie, if using more blueberries, you will need more flour as a thickener or there will be too much blueberry juices. Also, make sure to bake long enough and put the pie into a fully preheated oven. I hope that helps!
How lemon-y does this pie taste? Without the lemon is it missing that “oomf” that makes something truly fabulous? I don’t want a super lemon-y blueberry pie but I’m wondering if the lemon serves the same purpose as sugar in homemade buns or pizza crust (you don’t think you need it but if you don’t include it you regret skipping it because it tastes like something is missing)
Hi Victoria, we love it with lemon zest but you are welcome to omit that if you’d like.
And my husband is raving about the crust! Thank you so much for this recipe
You’re welcome Ivana! I’m so glad you enjoyed that!
I tried this recipe with wild blackberries. It’s so delicious, I even prefer it to blueberries now! With blueberries it’s also great!
That’s just awesome! Thank you for sharing that with me Ivana!
Hi
I’m going to try your blueberry crumble. And l’m going to make it with wild blueberries and in 2 small pans. I hope it works well.
Yum! I hope you love it! We look forward to your feedback.
I have made your blueberry crumble SO MANY TIMES – it is excellent! Trying pie this time! Fingers crossed!
Hi Sandra! I’m so glad you enjoyed our berry crumble! I hope you love this recipe!
I made your blueberry pie, with fresh blueberries. It is absolutely delicious!! Thank you, love your recipies! Jill
You’re welcome Jill! I’m so glad you enjoyed that!
Love the apple & blueberry pie recipes. The crust is fantastic, you’re right. My husband & I will try peach pie too in the summer when peaches are ripe. Rather use fresh than frozen. We used Splenda baking sugar instead of reg sugar, and it was great too.
Thanks for sharing that with us, Dorothy. I’m so glad you enjoyed it especially the crust, peach sounds like a great plan. I hope you love it too!
I made your blueberry pie but it was very runny. It tasted amazing but we needed to eat it with a spoon. I followed your recipe – I don’t know what went wrong. Any tips I could use ? I really want to make it again.
Hi Barb, did you use fresh or frozen blueberries? I think you will see a big difference with fresh blueberries. Frozen tend to release more liquid and don’t hold their form as well.
Hello. This is my first time baking a pie. My crust did not want to roll out – it’s just crumbled. What did I do wrong?
Thank you!
Hi, it sounds like too much flour or not enough water added. If it doesn’t hold together, I would get it back in the food processor and add another teaspoon of water at a time until it does.
This is one of the best pies I’ve ever had, definitely the best one I’ve made!
It was the perfect hint of lemon within each plate, and I like how it used much less sugar than most-it was the perfect amount.
I made it last week when organic blueberries were on sale, now I’m making it again this week with frozen arboreal wild blueberries.
This recipe was so good it inspired me making my own whole wheat pie crust for the first time ever (since the line was so long at Trader Joe’s- which is also the reason there was no fresh blueberries).
It’s going into the keeper recipe file (where only a few recipes have been good enough to make the cut).
We’ll be making it many times throughout the summer🕺👍
Hello Nick, your comments and great feedback really made me smile. Thank you so much for sharing that with us, I am so happy that you loved this pie recipe a lot!
We made this pie and used the crust recipe too.
It was the best pie crust I’ve ever had. It was the only time I’ve been tempted to eat around the pie filling, which was delicious. We followed the recipe to the letter and it was awesome. I can’t wait to try it with fresh Maine wild blueberries.
That’s so great! It sounds like you have a new favorite, Helen!
I am very spoiled I lived in Maine where they harvested the Maine blueberries that were so sweet and grew on low bushes. I use to make everything with those berries, I now live in Florida and only have the cultivated ones, they are tart, I can make them work but they are not the same. Publix used to sell Wyman’s
frozen blueberries from Maine.
Delicious!
Thank you for the great review!
I used 5 cups of frozen blueberries and was nervous about it being runny, so I added two extra tbsp of flour plus a tbsp or cornstarch. It still came out like soup. The flavor was great but I’m very disappointed that it didn’t set up. I will have to try it with fresh blueberries next time to see if that makes a difference.
Hi Chloe, I think you will see a big difference with fresh blueberries. Frozen tend to release more liquid and don’t hold their form as well.