Homemade Apple Pie

I've never like pie, any kind of pie, until a couple years ago I made homemade apple pie, tried it, and fell in love! Yum! Ever since then I've been making homemade apple pie for Thanksgiving and Christmas. In the spirit of Apple Cup I garnished the pie with Footballs made from extra pie crust… and even though the game didn't turn out how we would have liked I still and always am proud to be a COUG! 

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Apple Pie

Ingredients:

·      2-3 lbs. baking apples, I used a mixture of pippin, granny smith, golden delicious

·      1 cup heavy cream

·      ½ brown sugar

·      ½ cup sugar

·      ½ tbsp. all-purpose flour

·      2 tsp. vanilla

·      ¼ tsp. cinnamon

·      Pre-made piecrust

·      Egg wash- egg and heavy cream

Directions:

1.     Preheat oven to 375º.

2.     Press bottom crust into pie plate.

3.     Peel apples, slice into small even sized pieces.

4.     Whisk together heavy cream, brown sugar, sugar, flour, vanilla, and cinnamon.

5.     Pour over sliced apples and stir to coat apples.

6.     Pour apples into bottom crust, making a mound if necessary.

7.     Cover with top crust, flute edges and cut slits to vent. Decorate with piecrust cutouts if desired.

8.     Brush with egg wash.

9.     Cover edges loosely with foil to keep from burning.

10.   Bake for 45 minutes. Remove foil and bake for 15 more minutes.

*this pie is originally adapted from Pioneer Women

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Homemade Sweet Cherry Pie

I decided to make homemade pie filling (I used pre-made crusts) for Thanksgiving and since cherry pie is one of my moms favorite I needed to make one! I searched multiple stores for fresh, frozen, and/or canned sour or tart cherries and couldn't find any. And thus we have sweet cherry pie! 

Ingredients: Cornstarch, lemon juice, sugar, sweet cherries, almond extract, and pre-made pie crusts.

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Sweet Cherry Pie

Ingredients:

6 cups frozen dark sweet cherries, thawed

½ cup juice

1/8 tsp. salt

¾ cup sugar

5 tbsp. cornstarch

Juice of half a lemon

¼ tsp. almond extract

Pre-made piecrust

Butter

Egg wash

Sugar for decoration

Directions:

1.     Preheat oven to 400º.

2.     Drain cherries; reserve juice.

3.     Place one crust in bottom of pie plate.

4.     Heat drained cherries, salt, and sugar over medium until boiling.

5.     Stir together cherry juice and cornstarch. Mix well.

6.     Add lemon juice and almond extract to juice/cornstarch mixture.

7.     Remove cherries from head and stir in juice/cornstarch mixture.

8.     Return to heat and cook until thickened.

9.     Cool; pour into crust lined pie pan.

10. Dot with butter.

11. Cover with top piecrust lattice.

12. Brush with egg wash and sprinkle with sugar.

13. Cover edges with aluminum foil. Bake for 35 minutes.

14. Remove foil and bake for 15 additional minutes.

15. Let cool before serving.

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