Pie Recipe #39 - Apple Pie Baked in the Apples

Your pie pan for this recipe is a carved-out apple. This takes a little extra time but is a great new spin on "all-american" apple pie. Serve with a scoop of vanilla ice cream...mmmmmmmmm great! Ingredients: 5-6 Granny Smith apples (make sure they can stand on their own), 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon, 1/4 cup granulated sugar, 1 tablespoon brown sugar, 1 pie crust. Instructions: Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Cut off the top of 4 apples and discard. Remove the inside of each apple with a spoon or melon baller very carefully, as to not puncture the peel. Salvage as much of the apple as you can. Remove skin from remaining apples and slice very thin. These apple slices along with the salvaged insides of the scraped-out apples will be your filling. In a small bowl mix granulated sugar, brown sugar, and cinnamon together; add sliced and salvaged apple slices and mix well until coated. Scoop sliced apples into the 4 hollow apples distributing mixture evenly. Roll out pie crust and slice into 1/4 inch strips. Cover the top of each apple in a lattice pattern with the strips. Place apples in an 8x8 inch baking pan. Add just enough water to cover the bottom of the pan. Cover with foil and bake in preheated 375 degree oven for 20-25 minutes. Remove foil and bake for an additional 20 minutes or until crust is golden brown and sliced apples are soft. Makes: 4 apple pie-filled apples. "As easy as pie!"

Pie Recipe #37 - Topsy-turvy Apple Pie

This will turn your world upside down...well...the pie anyway. Take a traditional apple pie, add a portion of a pecan pie, bake, flip, and VOILA!! Ingredients: 2 (9 inch)pie shells, 1/4 cup butter, softened, 1/2 cup pecan halves, 1/2 cup packed brown sugar, 5 large apples-peeled, cored and thinly sliced, 1 tablespoon lemon juice, 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour, 1/2 cup granulated sugar, 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon, 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg, a pinch of salt. Instructions: Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Spread butter or margarine evenly on bottom and sides of a 9 inch pie plate. Press pecans, rounded side down, into butter layer. Pat brown sugar evenly over nuts. Lay one pastry shell over brown sugar layer. Place apples in a large bowl and sprinkle with lemon juice. In a small bowl, combine flour, sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt; mix well. Toss mixture with apples, coatinig thoroughly. Spread apples into pie plate. Cover apples with second pastry shell. Crimp edges of pastry and make steam vents in top. Bake in preheated 400 degree oven for 50 minutes or until apples are tender when pierced with a fork. Remove to cooling rack for 5 minutes before inverting onto serving plate. Carefully remove pie pan. Serve warm or cool. Submitted by louc4 on allrecipes.com. "As easy as pie!"