christmas_desserts

christmas pie recipes

holiday pies and desserts

Christmas Apple Pie

Ingredients:
Crust:
Mix together with a fork:
4 cups all purpose flour
1 3/4 cups shortening (we use butter)
1 Tbsp sugar
2 tsp salt
set aside

Mix together with a fork:
1 Tbsp cider vinegar
1 whole egg
1/2 cup cool water

For the filling of each pie:
Mix together:
1 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp nutmeg
1 cup white sugar
1/4 cup all purpose flour

Instructions:
Crust:
Combine the two mixtures, stirring with a fork until all the ingredients are moistened. Using your hands, mold dough into a ball. Cover with plastic wrap and chill for at least 15 minutes. The pie crust dough may be refrigerated for 3 or 4 days. Make it ahead to cut down on last minute complications.
*This pastry recipe will make three double-crusted pies. Bake on for now, and freeze two for that day when too much company drops by.

For the filling of each pie:
Roll out a bottom crust with enough excess to hang over the pie plate at least 1 inch. Peel and core 6 or 8 snappy Vermont Macintosh apples and slice into the pie plate. Pile very high as the apples will cook down. Squeeze the juice of 1/2 lemon over the apples.

Sprinkle evenly over the mound of apples. Dot the entire pie with 1/2 stick of sweet unsalted butter and cover with a top crust. Fold the overlapping crusts together and crimp to hold in the bubbling juices. Place pie on a cookie sheet and bake at 400 degrees for 50 minutes. To brown: brush the pie with cream and sprinkle lightly with sugar, run under the broiler checking by the second until nicely browned.

Enjoy this Christmas Pie.

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Christmas Pumpkin Pie

Ingredients:
1 (9 inch) unbaked deep dish pie crust

3/4 cup white sugar
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
2 eggs
1 (15 ounce) can LIBBY'S® 100% Pure Pumpkin
1 (12 fluid ounce) can NESTLE® CARNATION® Evaporated Milk

Preheat oven to 425 F.
Combine sugar, salt, cinnamon, ginger and cloves in small bowl. Beat eggs lightly in large bowl. Stir in pumpkin and sugar-spice mixture. Gradually stir in evaporated milk. Pour into pie shell.
Bake for 15 minutes. Reduce temperature to 350 F.; bake for 40 to 50 minutes or until knife inserted near center comes out clean. Cool on wire rack for 2 hours. Serve immediately or refrigerate. (Do not freeze as this will cause the crust to separate from the filling.)

Enjoy this Christmas Pie.

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another Christmas Pumpkin Pie is the...

Spicy Pumpkin Pie

christmas pies and holiday pies

2 (9 inch) unbaked pie crusts
2 tablespoons butter, melted
1 (29 ounce) can pumpkin puree
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 eggs
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup white sugar
1 cup milk

For this Christmas Pie, preheat oven to 450 degrees F (220 degrees C).

In a large bowl, mix together butter or margarine, pumpkin, cinnamon, ginger, cloves, and salt. In a separate bowl, beat eggs until foamy. Mix flour, brown sugar, white sugar, and milk into eggs. Blend egg mixture into pumpkin mixture. Pour half of mixture into each pastry lined pan.
Bake in preheated oven for 15 minutes. Reduce heat to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C) and bake an additional 45 minutes, until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.

Enjoy this Christmas Pie.