
Incredibly Impressive Apple Pie
Baking a pie can be just as easy buying a roll of pre-cut cookie dough: Insert canned filling into store bought crust, pop in oven, and you’ve got pie. You can still pass it off as homemade but when you want to make mouths water, this updated apple pie will do the trick. The secret is adding a few delicious ingredients— crystalized ginger, cranberry, pear. Top it off with a lattice crust, which anyone who has mastered Play-Doh can handle.
You’ll need:
- 3.5 lb. Golden Delicious apples, peeled and chopped (Peeling apples is less of a chore if you core them first)
- 1 Bartlett pear, peeled and chopped
- 1 1/2 cup cranberries
- 1/4 cup chopped crystallized ginger
- 2 9-inch frozen pie crusts (If you want to make your own crust, you have my admiration but you’re on your own.)
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1/4 tsp. salt
- 3 tbs. all-purpose flour
- 1 tbs. fresh lemon juice
To make:
- Let crusts thaw
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees
- Peel apples and pear
- Stir all ingredients in a bowl
- Pour filling into one pie crust
- Cut the other pie crust into strips about 1 inch thick, then layer on top of pie so that they make a lattice design (as shown above)
- Pinch the top and bottom crusts together making a thumbprint design on the edges
- Cover the edges of the pie with aluminum foil so they don’t get too dark
- Cook the pie for about 1 hour until crust is brown and filling is bubbling
- Ashley



