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Halloween Themed Apple Blackberry Pie

Course Dessert

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