What’s your favorite Fall Inspired Pie?
It’s Fall, and you know what that means, bring on the apple recipes! Luckily, we just went apple picking over the weekend, so I have plenty of them.
Since it’s Fall, I made a Woodland Themed Apple Pie. This pie has a wood lattice, and cutouts ave shapes of leaves, pine cones and acorns. It’s screams Autumn.
To make the lattice, I used a Wood Grain Impression Mat
over a rolled sheet of pie dough. Then cut it into 8 strips and weaved them over the apples.
over a rolled sheet of pie dough. Then cut it into 8 strips and weaved them over the apples.
For the pine cones and acorns, I used silicon molds normally used for fondant, but they worked perfectly with the pie dough. And used different leaf baking/cookie plungers and spread them out around the perimeter of the pie. Perfect every time!
Woodland Themed Apple Pie
Ingredients
Dough
- 3 1/4 cups flour
- 1 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 1/2 sticks sticks butter, cubed and frozen
- 1/2 cup vegetable shortening
- 9-11 tsp ice water
Filling
- 5 apples, peeled, cored and sliced
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 tsp lemon juice
- 2 tsp cinnamon
- 1 tsp nutmeg
- 2 tsp vanilla
- 2 tbsp butter
- 2 tbsp flour
- 1 egg (for wash)
Instructions
- Combine flour, butter, shortening, salt in a food processor. Pour in water until dough comes together. Divide the dough into 3 pieces. Shape into disks, wrap it in plastic wrap and place into the refrigerator until ready to use. Roll out 2 of the disks into circles. Lay one disk in a 9 inch pie plate. Combine ingredients for the apple filling except butter. Pour filling on top of rolled dough. Cut butter in to small pieces and place on top of the filling. Use a Wood Grain Impression Mat all over the second rolled pie dough. Do not overlap. Cut dough in to 8 strips. Make a lattice placing 4 down in one direction and the other four in the opposite direction. Use the remaining dough to make the cut outs. Roll last disk into a circle. Use leaf cutters to cut different shaped leaves. Use pine cone and acorn silicon fondant molds to make the pine corns and acorns.Beat egg in a bowl with 1 tsp water. use a pastry brush and "paint" all around the perimeter of the pie. place down the decor using the egg wash to make everything stick. Brush the whole pie with the egg wash when done.Bake in a 350 degree oven for an hour or until Crust is browned. Cool on a wire rack.
