She started baking
for her family.
She ended up #1 in the nation.
In 2014, Zukie was baking pies for her family restaurant on Clearwater's Sunset Point Road. Her customers wouldn't stop raving. Finally, they convinced her to enter the American Pie Council's National Pie Championship — the most prestigious pie competition in America.
"She beat Publix. She beat Village Inn. She beat every professional bakery that entered. First place. National champion."
— Tampa Bay Times, 2014She didn't stop there. Three national championships, fourteen blue ribbons, and at the 2025 APC National Championship, Zukie's Pies tied for the most blue ribbons among all independent bakers in the country — eight ribbons in a single competition.
Everything is made completely from scratch, using pure, high-quality ingredients. No shortcuts. No mixes. Just the kind of pie your grandmother would have made — if your grandmother were a national champion.