What Makes Our Pies Unique?
Butter! Lots of it. And our fillings are pre-cooked from fresh or frozen fruit and loaded with fresh, high quality ingredients.
We will be baking pies right up until Noon on Thanksgiving Day as needed. However, we can't always spare a person to montitor our email for orders during really busy periods. If you need quick turnaround, please contact our Ashland bakery directly at 508-881-1853 to make sure we see your order. We do need at least 24 hours notice to get a pie to our Framingham retail store, so last minute orders may require pickup in Ashland.
Thanksgiving week hours: open 10 AM - 6 PM on Wednesday and open 9 AM - 1 PM on Thanksgiving Day.
What else makes Dulce’s pies unique?
We’ve all been there before: that point where you’re eating a pie and you decide the crust just isn’t worth the calories. Then you realize that the filling tastes just like the canned stuff, probably because it is! We’re not going to do that to you.
Our all-butter crust is kept soft and tender and rolled out cold on a long bed sheeter. It has similar rolling action to hand rolling. The high-throughput pie crust stamping machines used elsewhere don’t really work with an all butter crust. Of course, it takes longer to roll out a dough than to stamp it, but great taste and texture is worth the extra work.
All of our fillings are pre-cooked from fresh or frozen fruit, sugar, and tapioca-based starches to thicken. Low acid fruits receive some lemon juice to ensure an appealing sweet-tart balance. The benefit of pre-cooking the filling is that it gives us more control over the cooking procedure when we bake the pie, so we can focus on crisping the crust in our stone-floor oven.