chess pie

noun

: a pie or tart with a filling made especially of eggs, butter, and sugar

Examples of chess pie in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

This list has both, plus everything in between: a no-bake peanut butter mousse pie, a chess pie that tastes like brownies, a slab pie built for a crowd, and a coconut cream pie that goes three rounds with coconut. — Maggie Meyer Glisan, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 May 2026

Similar to a chess pie, this Transparent Pie is a lost recipe to many Kentuckians. — Mary Shannon Wells, Southern Living, 26 Apr. 2026

Hoosier Mama Pie Company whips pumpkin for a chiffon pie, blends it with ginger for a cheesecake, swirls it together with chocolate for a twist on chess pie and even fuses it with apple for a sour cream Dutch apple pie with walnuts. — Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 15 Nov. 2025

The chocolate pecan chess pie blends a classic pecan pie with a chocolate chess pie that is baked together in Pop Pie’s signature all-butter crust. — Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Oct. 2025

Word History

Etymology

perhaps alteration of chest

First Known Use

1932, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for chess pie

• ai
• aye
• bae
• bi
• buy
• by
• bye
• chai
• chi
• cry
• die
• dry