3 Indiana Diners Hoosiers Say Serve the Best Sugar Cream Pie
Sugar cream pie is simple enough to fit on an index card, but Hoosiers can be picky about who makes it best.
Ask around, and you’ll hear about a select number of diners worth the detour for a slice.
Here’s where locals say sugar cream pie is worth the drive.
1. Nick’s Kitchen
Gastro Obscura describes Nick’s Kitchen in Huntington as a small diner that serves delicious sugar cream pie.
The Indiana Foodways Alliance lists the diner at 506 North Jefferson Street and says the kitchen makes homemade pie every day.
If you want a whole pie to take home, call a day ahead and order it.
Listed hours are 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. every day, so confirm them before you make a long drive.
2. Oasis Diner
In its October 2025 roundup of pie stops, Visit Hendricks County names sugar cream pie among the slices you can order at Oasis Diner in Plainfield.
The building is a restored and relocated 1954 Mountain View Diner.
Oasis gets its pies from The Singing Crust Bakery.
Apple, rhubarb, cinnamon peach, and blueberry slices are named too.
If you want a whole pie, Oasis Diner’s website asks for 24 hours’ notice on special orders.
There’s a Pie of the Day too, so ask which pies are in before you go.
Indiana Foodways Alliance lists the diner at 405 West Main Street with counter seating, booths, tables, and outdoor seating in warmer months.
Doors open at 7 a.m. every day, with closing times of 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 3 p.m. Sunday.
Most meal tickets average $12 and under.
If you want a drink with the pie, there are homemade sodas, including Butterscotch Root Beer.
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3. Storie's Restaurant
You can order sugar cream pie at Storie's Restaurant in Greensburg, according to Indiana Connection's September 2024 report on the Hoosier Pie Trail.
Every pie is made fresh in the store and sold whole or by the slice.
Sales run about 150 pies a week, with Sunday's leftovers sold at a discount.
Visit Greensburg's listing says the pies are made from scratch and baked fresh daily.
The Indiana Foodways Alliance classifies Storie's as an American diner at 109 East Main Street.
The restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner at tables and booths.
Check the hours before you go, since the listed hours have Storie's closed Monday and Tuesday and open until 7 p.m. only on Friday and Saturday.
The restaurant sits on the south side of the downtown square, steps from the courthouse tower tree.
You'll park on the street.
New owners bought Storie's in 2021 along with the family recipes served there since the Storie family opened it in 1977, Indiana Connection reported.
The Hoosier Pie Trail
The Indiana Foodways Alliance compiled the Hoosier Pie Trail, a statewide list that includes all three of these sugar cream pie diners.
Indiana Connection counted 36 stops in September 2024 and described the list as diners, restaurants, candy stores, and even a brewery.
If you're mapping stops, Indianapolis public media outlet WFYI noted in 2017 that many serve sugar cream pie while every stop has a local specialty.
Nick's and Storie's both sit on the Rise N' Shine Trail too, which gives you a second trail to follow.
Oasis turns up on four Foodways trails, including the Hoosier Pie Trail and the Soda-licious Trail.
The 2009 Resolution
The text of Senate Resolution 59 calls Winchester the state sugar cream pie capital because Wick's Pies is based there.
The Secretary of the Senate was to send copies to the Indiana Foodways Alliance and to Wick's Pies.
If you see sugar cream pie billed as the official state pie, you can point out that the resolution's word was unofficial.
WFYI reported in 2017 that a 2009 push to make the pie official never reached the governor's desk.
The bill would have renamed sugar cream pie Hoosier pie.
Where Sugar Cream Pie Stands on Paper
Sugar cream pie has no chapter in the state emblems article of the Indiana Code, as of the 2025 code.
That article lists 17 chapters, from the state flag and seal to the state fossil, and chapter 1 is repealed.
Who Brought the Pie
Accounts differ on who brought sugar cream pie to the state.
Senate Resolution 59 credits Quakers who settled along Indiana's eastern border between 1810 and 1825.
Indiana Connection points to the Shaker community instead, saying the pie is believed to have come to the state in the mid-1800s.
WFYI points to a date.
The earliest known Indiana recipe dates to 1816, the year Indiana became a state.
So if you hear a Quaker story at one table and a Shaker story at the next, you can point to a published source for both.
What Goes in the Filling
Sugar cream pie has a short ingredient list.
WFYI gives the usual one as sugar, milk or cream, vanilla, nutmeg, butter, and salt.
If you bake sugar cream pie at home, flour, cornstarch, or both sometimes thicken the filling.
Sugar cream pie enthusiasts say an authentic recipe has no eggs.
The pie became known as a “desperation pie” because you could make it year-round without fresh fruit, using ingredients many people already had in the pantry.
Senate Resolution 59 disputes that label, saying the pie required imported sugar, a cow for cream, and stirring with the fingers instead of a spoon.
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