Popeyes Cinnamon Apple Pie: Price, Calories and Nutrition (2026)

Popeyes Cinnamon Apple Pie is the chain’s one true dessert, and it does the job properly. It is a baked turnover-style pie: a flaky, crisp crust wrapped around a hot filling of real apple pieces in cinnamon-spiced sauce. In 2026 a single pie starts from $2.29 and carries 280 calories. It is not a light finish to a meal, but it is a good one, the warm, sweet counterpoint to all that savory Cajun spice. Here is the current price, the calorie count, and the full nutrition breakdown.

Popeyes Cinnamon Apple Pie price: from $2.29. Popeyes Cinnamon Apple Pie calories: 280. Prices vary by location because Popeyes restaurants are franchised and set their own menu prices, with most markets landing between $2.29 and $2.79 for a single pie. The 280 calorie figure covers one pie as served.

Last updated: July 31, 2026

Table of contents

• What is a Popeyes Cinnamon Apple Pie
• Cinnamon Apple Pie nutrition facts
• Baked vs fried pie
• Pie vs Buttermilk Biscuit with honey
• Allergens
• Getting the best value on dessert
• Frequently asked questions

What is a Popeyes Cinnamon Apple Pie

The Popeyes Cinnamon Apple Pie is a turnover: a pocket of flaky pastry filled with cinnamon-spiced apples, baked until the crust is crisp and golden and the filling is molten. It arrives hot, which is half the appeal. The contrast between the shattering crust and the soft, sweet, warmly spiced filling is the whole dessert in one bite. It is simple, it is classic, and it works.

Popeyes has kept the dessert menu deliberately narrow. Where other chains rotate through sundaes, cookies, and shakes, Popeyes offers the pie and not much else. That focus is a strength. The pie is always available, always the same, and always hot. It is the reliable sweet finish to a Popeyes meal, the thing you order when the savory part is done and you want one more thing.

The filling deserves a note. It is made with real apple pieces, not apple-flavored gel, in a cinnamon sauce that is sweet without being cloying. The cinnamon is present but not aggressive, warming rather than sharp. It tastes like the platonic ideal of a fast food apple pie, which is exactly what it is.

Cinnamon Apple Pie nutrition facts

Full nutrition breakdown for one Cinnamon Apple Pie, based on Popeyes’ official US nutrition data as reported by 2026-updated nutrition databases.

Nutrient	Amount per Cinnamon Apple Pie
Calories	280
Total fat	12g
Total carbohydrates	39g
Protein	4g
Sodium	260mg

As desserts go, the panel is moderate. The 280 calories are in line with a single-serve fast food dessert, the 12 grams of fat are reasonable for a pastry, and the 39 grams of carbohydrates are mostly the sugars you would expect. Sodium at 260 mg is actually the lowest on the entire menu, sides included.

The honest framing: this is a dessert, and it should be judged as one. Against the sides, it is heavier than everything except the red beans and rice. Against other chains’ desserts, it is competitive: lighter than most sundaes and shakes, comparable to other chains’ baked pies. If you want dessert at Popeyes, this is the dessert, and the numbers are fair.

Baked vs fried pie

The current Popeyes pie is baked, not fried. This matters for both texture and nutrition. A baked turnover crust is crisp and flaky with 12 grams of fat. A fried pie crust, the style some chains still use, is richer and greasier, typically running several grams of fat higher for the same size. The baked format is the lighter choice, and it is the modern standard for fast food pies.

Texture-wise, the baked crust shatters where a fried crust crunches. Both are good. The baked version lets the filling’s flavor come through more clearly, since there is less frying oil competing with the cinnamon and apple. Purists who remember fried pies may miss the richness, but the baked pie is the better-balanced dessert.

Pie vs Buttermilk Biscuit with honey

The unofficial Popeyes dessert is a buttermilk biscuit with honey: 230 calories for the biscuit plus about 30 for a honey packet, roughly 260 total. The official dessert is the Cinnamon Apple Pie at 280 calories. The numbers are close enough that the choice comes down to preference, not nutrition.

Choose the pie when you want a real dessert: hot fruit filling, sweet and complete, the proper finish. Choose the biscuit with honey when you want the classic Popeyes pairing and a lower price; at from $0.99 plus free honey, it is the cheapest dessert on the menu. Both are good. The pie is the dessert for people who came for dessert. The biscuit is the dessert for people who were already eating biscuits.

Allergens

Popeyes Cinnamon Apple Pie contains wheat, milk, and egg. It does not contain meat, so vegetarians can enjoy it, but it is not vegan. Soy is possible from the pastry shortening, so check with the restaurant if you have a soy allergy. As with everything at Popeyes, it is prepared in shared kitchens, so cross-contact is possible. Always check with the restaurant if you have a serious allergy.

Getting the best value on dessert

• At from $2.29, the pie is the only dedicated dessert on the menu. It is priced in line with other chains’ single-serve desserts.
• The pie is sometimes included in bundle and family meal deals. Check the current offers before ordering it separately.
• For the cheapest sweet finish, a biscuit with free honey runs about $0.99. It is not the pie, but it scratches the itch.
• The pie is best eaten hot, within minutes of serving. The crust stays crisp and the filling stays molten. It does not hold well, so do not save it for later.
• Two pies are a common share for a group. At $2.29 each, splitting dessert for the table is cheap.
• In the Popeyes app, the pie appears in dessert and bundle offers. App-exclusive deals sometimes discount it with combo purchases.

Frequently asked questions

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Craving more Popeyes favorites? Read our Buttermilk Biscuit guide, Classic Chicken Sandwich guide and our Spicy Chicken Sandwich guide for prices, calories and nutrition facts.