The “Pie Guy” is at it again. Ken had some of his wonderful pie dough in the freezer left over from a previous pie so we put our thinking caps on and came up with these rustic looking pies for Christmas. What he created is one of my favorites so far. Perfect balance of sweet and tart, with hints of citrus, amazingly good!! They are nice individual pies that you can have a whole one or share. Lovely with a little good quality ice cream too!
Try these little pies you will love them!!
Apple Cranberry Pies
Author: Tara Noland
Recipe type: Dessert
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Serves: 8 pies
The perfect pie for the holidays!
Ingredients
Filling
- 4 Granny Smith apples, cored, peeled and thinly sliced
- 1 cup fresh cranberries
- 1 Tbsp. lemon juice
- ¾ cup berry sugar
- 3-4 Tbsp. berry sugar for sprinkling on top
- 2 Tbsp. cornstarch
- 1 tsp. orange zest
- 1 tsp. cinnamon
- ¼ tsp. nutmeg
- ¼ cup butter
- 1 egg, slightly beaten
Pie Dough
- 1 lb. lard
- 2 Tbsp. vinegar
- 1 egg
- 1 cup water
- 4-5 cups flour
Instructions
- In a small bowl add egg and stir with a fork. Stir in vinegar and then water. In a separate bowl add the lard and 4 cups flour. Cut the lard into small pieces using a pastry cutter. Add the liquid and continue to cut the lard into the mixture adding more flour as needed. Do not over work. Stop when the dough comes together into a sticky ball. Divide into half and wrap in cello. Place in refrigerator for 30 min. to 1 hour. If making eight pies freeze the remaining half of dough for another use.
- Preheat oven to 350F. Mix together apple slices, cranberries, lemon juice, ¾ cup sugar, cornstarch, orange zest, cinnamon and nutmeg in a large bowl.
- Roll out the pastry to ¼” thickness using a quarter of the dough at a time and cutting out two 8″ circles. Place on parchment lined cookie sheets. Continue with the remaining dough until you have 8 circles.
- Place ⅛ of the apple mixture into the center of each circle and folding the edges of the dough towards the center leaving a 3-3½” opening.
- Brush the pastry with the egg and sprinkle the remaining sugar. Just before the pies go in the oven brush the fruit with the melted butter.
- Bake for 25-35 min. until the pastry is golden brown and the apples and cranberries are cooked.
These not only look adorable, they look delish! Can’t wait to try them!
Thanks so much for coming over to visit Isabel!! I hope you like them as much as we did!
These are too cute! I could just gobble them all up!
I love that he used lard in his pie dough…the way it used to be done in the good ol’ days. The crust looks amazing as well as the filling.
You can’t beat that pie crust, it is the best!!
So yummy!!
Have a great holiday….
Thanks so much for coming over Linda, hope your holidays are great too!
These are so adorable! I may have to try making these with my kids over their holiday break!
Thank you so much Ann, I hope you try them. Happy Holidays!!