What are You Baking for Halloween?
Since I still have tons of apples left over from apple picking, I made a Halloween Themed Apple Blackberry Pie!
It’s filled with lots of spiced sliced apple slices and a handful of juice blackberries. Such a great combination!
For the decor, the pie has a bat printed lattice crust that was made by using Bat Mold Silicon Mat. After rolling out the dough, take the mat and press down all over the rolled dough. Once the print is covered all over, use a pastry cutter to cut 8 strips. Lay the strips over the fruit in a lattice design, weaving over and under.
All around the lattice design is Halloween shaped crust decor. Roll out the rest of the dough and use the cookie plungers to cut out the shapes. I used ghosts, jack-o-lanterns, witch’s hats, haunted houses and fall leaves.
I also used a skeleton mold and took small pieces of dough and pressed it inside the mold to make the shapes. Add them to the pie as well.
Then you have a festive Halloween pie!
Halloween Themed Apple Blackberry Pie
Ingredients
Dough
- 3 1/4 cup flour
- 1 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 1/2 sticks butter, cubed and froze
- 1/2 cup vegetable shortening
- 9-11 tsp ice water
Filling
- 4-5 apples, peeled, cored and sliced
- 1/2 cup blackberries
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 tsp lemon juice
- 2 tsp cinnamon
- 1 tsp nutmeg
- 2 tsp vanilla
- 1 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 Halloween Themed Bat 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 Halloween Themed cutters to cut different shapes. Use a small skull mold to make the skulls. 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
