Cranberry-Apple Pie

Name: Cranberry Apple Pie
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 60 min
Ingredients: PIE CRUST; 2 cups all-purpose flour; 1/2 teaspoon salt; 3/4 cup 1 1/2 sticks unsalted butter; 3 tablespoons margarine or chilled vegetable shortening; 1/4 cup ice water; FILLING; 1/3 cup packed dark brown sugar; 4 Tablespoons butter; 2 1/2 pounds Gala apples (about 6, peeled and cut into 1/2-inch pieces); 5 tablespoons all-purpose flour; 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon; 1 1/2 cups fresh cranberries; 2/3 cup grade B maple syrup; EGG WASH; 1 lightly beaten egg; turbinado sugar (to sprinkle on top)

November 26, 2012 by Savoring Italy

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Cranberry Apple Pie is my new favorite fall pie. A tender flaky lattice topped pie crust is loaded with a fresh cranberries, apples, warm spices. This delicious traditional apple pie with added cranberries makes for a spectacular holiday dessert!

It can’t already be time to start planning for the holidays. I swear I’m still nibbling on Halloween candy I have stashed in my secret hiding place.

Cranberry Apple Pie

Cranberries, apples, cinnamon spice, and a buttery homemade pie crust makes this apple cranberry pie a family favorite pie that we bake every year!

I’ve even come across on the web some desserts made recently with Halloween type candy. My mind was frozen in October even way past October’s ending. Where did the time go?

As the weeks rushed by I found myself without any cooking plans for Thanksgiving. I know I’ve mentioned I’m not the best planner, but I do always have a menu written out somewhere at least a week before the big day. There are usually some amazing recipes that have caught my eye printed out or the magazine pages bookmarked. I do really love trying new side dishes for Thanksgiving and Christmas. But this year I just couldn’t get into the menu planning groove. Family things came up and food wasn’t on my mind like it usually is. I didn’t even bake my desserts until the morning of Thanksgiving.

It was a beautiful afternoon spent with my family and my parents and my brother and his children (sorry, I know the holiday is way over and most of you are already on Christmas but my mom reminded me I didn’t even mention Thanksgiving in my last post!). My mom made her usual delicious turkey and hubs and I made some sides. I made an incredible sweet potato recipe from November Bon Appetit. I promise to share it with you because it was THAT good!

I was considering which pies to make from some magazines from last year. Last year I baked an apple-grape pie and it was really good. This was a pie I found in Cooking Light November 2011. I used the crust recipe I normally do and did the filling a little different.

My favorite apple pies I’ve shared here:
Grape and Apple Pie
Apple-Limoncello Pie
Salted Caramel Apple Pie

Some cranberry apple pie baking tips

I am a huge pie lover. My heart skips a beat for an amazing apple pie. If you love cranberries, you have to give this recipe a try. The filling has that little tart surprise in each bite from the cranberries. The crust is the same crust I always make that I found in an older Martha Stewart book. It never fails me. Well, it did fail me a little this Thanksgiving. It really wasn’t the pie crusts fault. It was my fault. I was rushing and I made two different pies.

My pumpkin pie crust turned out dreamily. This crust had some major technical issues. I dealt with it and tried to roll it out the way it should roll out. It just wasn’t happening. I couldn’t fight it any longer and decided to just press the bottom into the pie crust before I tossed the whole thing away. I had much better luck with the lattice strips.

Probably because I found a little patience and let it chill a little longer before working with it. But if you do come across an issue with the bottom of your crust, it’s totally fine to press it into the pie plate. Nobody will notice the difference. If you aren’t inclined to make your own crust, go ahead and use a ready made one. I got plenty of compliments on a pie I thought almost wouldn’t be. Would you like to see some photos on how to roll out the crust? I shared some here last year with my grape and apple pie.

How to make cranberry apple pie?

Cranberry-Apple Pie

Yield: Makes 1 double-crust for a 9-inch pie

Pie Crust Ingredients:

2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup (1 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter
3 tablespoons margarine or chilled vegetable shortening
1/4 cup ice water

Filling Ingredients:
1/3 cup packed dark brown sugar
4 Tablespoons butter
2 1/2 pounds Gala apples (about 6), peeled and cut into 1/2-inch pieces
5 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 1/2 cups fresh cranberries
2/3 cup grade B maple syrup

For Egg Wash:
1 lightly beaten egg

Directions:

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