Christmas Apple Pie
Festive take on apple pie, adding berry jelly and decorative pie crust.
Servings: 8
Ingredients
- !Pie Dough
- 8 cups sliced granny smith apples
- 1/2 cup sugar
- juice of one lemon
- 1 tablespoon cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
- pinch of ground cloves
- 2 tablespoons instant tapioca
- 1/2 cup berry jelly or 1/2 cup homemade cranberry sauce
- 1 tablespoon milk
- raw sugar or colored sugar for garnish
Instructions
- Prepare pie crust, wrap in plastic, refrigerate for one hour.
- Mix sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, ground cloves together.
- Peel, slice apples.
- Toss apples in lemon juice.
- Sprinkle with the flavored sugar. Toss and mix well. Allow to sit out for 30 minutes.
- Toss with jelly.If you have time, refrigerate overnight.
- Roll out pie dough and put bottom in pie pan. Use a fork to pierce bottom in several places.
- Put in freezer while making the decorative cut outs.
- Roll remaining pie dough. Cut out Christmas tree shapes.
- Freeze for ten minutes. This is not necessary, but makes placement easier.
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
- Assemble:
- Put apples into pie pan. Cover with Christmas trees.
- Brush with milk,
- Sprinkle raw sugar or colored sugar.
- Bake for 45-55 minutes at 400 degrees F.