Pie Time

Pie Time is a small pie shop at 111 N. Water Street, a half block off the Liberty square, opened in December 2018 by Christine Crouch, a former air-traffic controller and Liberty Public Schools employee who had run an event venue in town before turning her baking into a business. It sells whole 9-inch pies — coconut cream, key lime, Dutch apple, French silk, pecan, strawberry rhubarb and a dozen more at $27–28 — plus hand pies, cookies, sampler boxes, take-and-bake chicken pot pies and quiche, and its own pie crust and dough for home bakers. Hours are short (three afternoons a week) and much of the business is pre-ordered online, especially in the run-up to Thanksgiving.

Description

Pie Time sits on North Water Street just off the Liberty square; the same address houses Icebergs Italian Ice & Gelato, and a 2019 Tripadvisor reviewer titled a review of the neighboring Bittersweet apothecary shop “Hidden Pie Time,” which fits the shop’s tucked-away location.¹² The William Jewell student paper, profiling the shop three months after it opened, described a homey space and a counter of mini pies, hand pies (chocolate and cherry singled out), cookies and cakes, with sampler boxes for people who cannot choose.³

The core product is the whole 9-inch pie, all made on a handmade crust. The current ordering menu lists nineteen: cream and chilled pies (coconut cream, banana cream, key lime, lemon icebox, French silk, peanut butter chocolate, chocolate meringue), fruit pies with a choice of lattice or crumble top (cherry, blueberry, peach, triple berry, strawberry rhubarb, Dutch apple, blueberry sour cream, raisin sour cream) and the holiday standards (pumpkin, pecan, chocolate pecan).⁴ Savory items are take-and-bake: chicken pot pie in a double crust, and quiche in seven varieties from Lorraine to bacon-spinach-Swiss, both sold frozen.⁴ The shop also sells its unbaked crust and rounds of dough for home use, and a “Citrus Box” sampler of lemon sandwich cookies, mini key lime and lemon icebox pies and orange-carrot muffins.⁴ Diners on review sites single out the take-and-bake chicken pot pie, key lime, lemon icebox and cowboy cookies.⁵

The ordering page also shows how the shop paces its autumn: separate pre-order windows with “last week to order” cutoffs for pot pies (Oct 19–24), quiche (Oct 26–31), take-and-bake fruit pies (Nov 2–7) and freezer/heat-and-eat pies (Nov 9–14), i.e., the Thanksgiving pipeline.⁴ In 2021 the shop told KC Homes & Style it was offering ten pies plus a quiche for the holiday.⁶

Ownership and history

Christine Crouch opened Pie Time on December 8, 2018, per a March 2019 feature in William Jewell’s Hilltop Monitor.³ Her path to pie was indirect: she had worked as an air-traffic controller and for Liberty Public Schools, and before the bakery she ran an event venue in Liberty. She traces the baking itself to 4-H cooking classes with her grandmother at nine or ten; her favorite pies to make are chocolate, peanut butter and cherry.³ She chose the square because “a lot more people want to come down here and shop so it has a very homey feel.”³ To KC Homes & Style in 2021: “After working as an Air Traffic Controller and in the education field, I found an opportunity to start my own business doing something I’m passionate about. I decided to open a pie shop because I have always enjoyed baking and cooking.”⁶

No later press profiles the shop; its footprint since has been the Wix site, a Facebook page, and directory listings by Clay County tourism and the City of Liberty.⁷¹ Where Crouch lives, whether she still bakes alone or has staff, and the predecessor tenant at 111 N. Water are unresearched.

Links

• Website: https://www.pietimeliberty.com/
• Online ordering (official, Wix): https://www.pietimeliberty.com/online-ordering-1
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Pie-Time-296051791018914/
• Visit Clay County listing: https://www.visitclaymo.com/business/pie-time
• City of Liberty tourism directory: https://www.visitlibertymo.com/BusinessDirectoryII.aspx?lngBusinessCategoryID=140

Menu

Last verified: 2026-08-29 · Source: the shop’s own Wix online-ordering storefront · Confidence: High for items and prices; the ordering menu may omit walk-in items (hand pies, cookies, mini pies) sold at the counter.⁴

Pies (whole, 9-inch)

• Coconut Cream — coconut cream filling with almond and vanilla, whipped cream, toasted coconut. ($28)
• Key Lime — fresh lime juice and zest, graham crust, whipped cream. ($27)
• Pecan ($27) · Chocolate Pecan — with semi-sweet chips. ($28)
• Cherry — tart cherry with almond; crumble or lattice. ($27)
• Dutch Apple — Granny Smith, brown-sugar cinnamon crumble. ($28)
• Blueberry Sour Cream — buttery crumble top. ($28) · Blueberry — crumble or lattice. ($27)
• Pumpkin — cinnamon, ginger, clove. ($27)
• French Silk — graham crust, whipped cream, grated chocolate; contains raw eggs. ($28)
• Lemon Ice Box — vanilla-wafer crust. ($27)
• Chocolate Meringue ($28) · Banana Cream ($28) · Raisin Sour Cream ($28)
• Triple Berry — blueberry, blackberry, raspberry; lattice. ($27) · Peach — cinnamon, lattice. ($27)
• Strawberry Rhubarb — lattice or crumble. ($28)
• Peanut Butter Chocolate — peanut butter, cream cheese, whipped cream, peanut-butter cups, chocolate-cookie crust. ($27)
• Take & Bake Fruit Pies — peach, blueberry, cherry, Dutch apple or triple berry. ($27)

Savory (take and bake, sold frozen)

• Chicken Pot Pie — chicken breast, carrots, celery, peas, onions, double crust. ($30; seasonal pre-order also offers pot roast or buffalo chicken)
• Quiche — Lorraine, broccoli cheese, sausage mushroom, spinach red pepper, bacon cheddar, sausage cheddar or bacon spinach Swiss. ($28)

Crust, dough, samplers

• Pie Crust — one 9” unbaked crust. ($7) · Pie Dough — three rounds. ($18)
• Citrus Box — lemon sandwich cookie, mini key lime and mini lemon icebox pies, orange-carrot muffins. ($20)

Sources

Footnotes

1. City of Liberty tourism, Resource Directory — Desserts category. Retrieved 2026-08-29 — Confirms: Pie Time at 111 N. Water St., phone 816.651.8685, link pietimeliberty.com; Icebergs Italian Ice & Gelato also listed at 111 N. Water St. ↩ ↩²

2. Tripadvisor — “Hidden Pie Time,” review of Bittersweet and the Little Soap Company, Liberty, MO (2019) — Confirms: Pie Time’s proximity to the Bittersweet shop; lead only. ↩

3. Michaela Esau, “Liberty Square Business Feature: Pie Time,” The Hilltop Monitor (William Jewell College), 2019-03-01 — Confirms: owner Christine Crouch; opened December 8 (2018); 111 N. Water Street; phone and email; prior work as an air-traffic controller, for Liberty Public Schools and running a Liberty event venue; 4-H baking with her grandmother; favorite pies chocolate, peanut butter, cherry; hand pies, cookies, cakes, sampler boxes; “homey feel” quote. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴

4. Pie Time — official online-ordering storefront (Wix), “Online Orders (New).” Retrieved 2026-08-29 — Confirms: “Accepting Orders”; pickup/delivery/dine-in with $20 delivery minimum; pickup address 111 North Water Street, Liberty, MO 64068-1736; pickup slots in early September 2026; every item and price in the Menu section; seasonal “last week to order” windows for pot pies, quiche, take-and-bake fruit pies and freezer pies. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵

5. Restaurantji — “Pie Time, Liberty,” 4.7 (56 ratings), updated 2026-06-27. Retrieved 2026-08-29 — Confirms: hours table (Thu 12–4PM, Fri–Sat 10AM–4PM, closed Sun–Wed); reviews dated May 2025, September 2024, July 2024 (take-and-bake chicken pot pie, key lime, lemon icebox, cowboy cookies, Dutch apple). Third-party; provisional. ↩

6. Dave Eckert, “Pie Time,” Kansas City Homes & Style, November 2021 (holiday pie roundup) — Confirms: “Christine Crouch, owner of Pie Time, which you will find just off the square in downtown Liberty”; the air-traffic-controller/education quote; ten pies plus quiche offered for the 2021 holidays; orders by email. ↩ ↩²

7. Visit Clay County — “Pie Time” business listing. Retrieved 2026-08-29 — Confirms: 111 N Water St, Liberty, MO 64068; “variety of mini size pies, cookies and more”; Facebook link. ↩