Do you watch the nice British Bake Off? I’m smitten, particularly when the brits are baking with massive flavors and fruits at Christmas time. They appear to punch up their Christmas bakes greater than we do with cardamom, cinnamon, orange, and nutmeg.
This Christmas apple cranberry slab pie jogged my memory of the flavour profiles on the present. The cranberries add a essential tang to all of the candy and mix superbly with the apples.
I’m not new to slab pies, as I made a summer season model with blueberries and peaches right here.
The important thing to this Christmas pie is flavors and cooking down the apples with butter, cinnamon, orange zest, vanilla, cardamom, and nutmeg. You possibly can select to combine it up anyway you want, however preserve the cinnamon!
Pushing the flavors of outdated time Christmas, the cranberries do their job. I used two sorts of apples. The granny smith which cooked down, yielding loads of juice. To these I added 3 gala apples which don’t cook dinner down in the identical method.
That is the primary time I’ve combined my apples, and I quite prefer it. Gala apples are often my apple of alternative as a result of they preserve a few of their crispness. You possibly can combine up your apples (see notes in recipe).
The filling for the apple cranberry slab pie is completely scrumptious.
It tastes like an quaint pie you would possibly eat in Europe, so wealthy in flavors. 
I trimmed the dough across the sheet pan, however you can do one thing extra ornamental when you select. I felt I had sufficient dough and the nook items would have an excessive amount of.
Blind bake Apple Cranberry Slab Pie for quarter-hour.Â
Since my apple filling was pre-cooked, I blind-baked the underside crust for quarter-hour to make sure it stay crisp when minimize. It labored completely, and there was no soggy backside.
Use any cookie cutters you want. I like these Christmas cookie cutters.
That is the right crowd pleaser. Pre-cut into squares within the pan earlier than serving. This pie additionally freezes effectively.
I’ll be including this to my Apple Desserts with Ornamental Crusts
Summer time Slab Pie Here
Extra Apple Recipes from Spinach Tiger
Apple Cranberry Slab Pie
Winter Apple pie with cranberries baked in a sheet pan.
Servings: 15
Apple Cranberry Pie Filling
- 8 apples
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 teaspoon cardamom
- 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1/2 cup recent cranberries can sub with raspberries
- 1/3 cup brown sugar might have a number of tablespoons extra
- 1/2 orange for juice and zest
- 4 tablespoons Unsalted Butter
- 3/4 cup sugar (See Notes)
- 1/2 orange
- 2 tablespoons sifted corn starch
- Pie Dough
- 3 3/4 cups all goal flour 448 grams plus extra for dusting
- 12 ounces Unsalted Butter 24 tablespoons or 3 sticks
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup iced chilly water 2 extra tablespoons, (if wanted
MAKE APPLE FILLING
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Peel and core apples. Y≈
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Slice apples about 1/4 inch thick.
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Zest orange and juice orange.
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Put 4 tablespoons butter in frying pan with 2 tablespoons brown sugar.
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Toss apples with sugar, juice of half orange, orange zest. Add 1 tablespoon corn starch.
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Prepare dinner apples and cranberries on high of range on low in massive frying pan, till considerably softened. The granny smith apples will cook dinner down greater than the gala apples. There’ll loads of liquid, after about quarter-hour.
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Drain liquid and use in one other recipe.
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MAKE PIE DOUGH
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Lower butter into small items. Freeze for 10 minutes.
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Combine flour, sugar, salt in meals processor or kitchen help mixer. You possibly can whisk and do that together with your arms.
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Lower butter into flour combination. I desire my kitchen help mixer however a meals processor works effectively too
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You possibly can, nevertheless use a pastry cutter and blend butter into flour, ensuring to maintain the items pea sized.
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Add in ice chilly water. Combine simply sufficient to have the ability to squeeze dough collectively.
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If the dough stays collectively while you press, it’s processed sufficient.
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Put in plastic bag, separating it into 1/3 and a pair of/3. Convey it collectively in bag. Refrigerate for one hour. You are able to do this a day upfront of recipe.
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Convey out twenty minutes earlier than rolling.
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Preheat oven to 400 levels F. Prepare rack in oven on backside third.
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As soon as you’re able to assemble, first roll out 1/3 dough to make stars. You can also make 15 massive stars or 18 smaller stars. You should use extra dough from the opposite part if want be. The recipe will make the celebs and the remaining dough is simply sufficient for the sheet pan.
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Make the minimize outs and place in fridge, whereas rolling out the dough for the underside.
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Roll into rectangle and place in sheet pan.
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Fork holes all around the backside. Place in freezer for a couple of minutes.
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Prepare apples cranberry combination.
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Earlier than putting stars over fruit, utilizing your finger, rub milk over every star, and sprinkle uncooked sugar
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Bake for 35 minutes. Examine midway by way of and switch pan round.
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Examine at half-hour and loosely cowl with foil if it’s already golden brown.
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Enable to chill earlier than slicing.
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Preserve at room temperature, lined with foil.
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May be frozen for 60 days. Take out and permit to defrost at room temperature. May be reheated in oven.
Apples: I combined my apples, however you need to use all gala which keep a bit crisper and require much less sugar. Should you use all granny smith apples, you will want all of the sugar. Style filling as you go, because it’s cooked stovetop.Â
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