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Home Alone Apple Pear Pie

Ingredients

Crust

  • 3 3/4 cups flour
  • 1 1/2 tsp salt
  • 2 1/4 sticks butter
  • 3/4 cup shortening
  • 9-10 tbsp ice water

Filling

  • 2 pears, peeled, cored and slices
  • 3 apples, peeled, cored, and sliced
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 tsp lemon juice
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • 1/2 tsp nutmeg
  • 2 tsp vanilla
  • 2 tbsp butter
  • 2 tbsp flour

Instructions

Dough

  • Combine flour, butter, shortening, salt in a food processor. Pour in water until dough comes together. Divide into 3 disks. Place 2 disks into the refrigerator overnight. Roll out the last disk. Use cookie cutters to cut out faces, trees, and houses. Place on a cookie sheet and into the freezer over night.
    The next day, roll out a second disk and place into a pie pan.  

Pie

  • Combine apples, pears, sugar, lemon juice, vanilla, spices and 2 tbsp of flour. Mix and pour into pie pan.  Add butter on top. Roll out last disk, place on top of filling and seal the edges. 
    Make an egg wash of one egg and a tsp of water.  Use this as a "glue" for the dough cut outs. Place faces on top of the crust.  Place trees and houses cutouts around the edges alternating between the two.  Brush with remaining egg wash.  Bake in a 350 degree oven for about 50 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool on a wire rack.