Joe's Awesome Pear Apple Cranberry Pie with Gingersnap Topping
Holiday pie made with pears, apples and cranberries
Servings 8
Cost 5
Ingredients
- 1 9-inch unbaked pie crust
Topping
- ½ cup flour
- 2 ½ tablespoons sugar
- 2 ½ tablespoons brown sugar
- 6 count gingersnaps crushed
- pinch of salt
- 4 tablespoons unsalted butter
Filling
- 2 large Bosc pears
- 1 large Granny Smith (very large) or 2 small (12 oz total)
- ¾ cup cranberries
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- ½ teaspoon lemon zest
- ¼ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 6 tablespoons granulated sugar
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch
Instructions
- Topping: In a bowl, mix flour, sugar, brown sugar, gingersnaps, ginger, and salt. Stir in melted butter until large crumbs form.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Filling: In a large bowl toss pears, apples, cranberries, lemon juice, lemon zest, and vanilla. In a small bowl toss sugar with cornstarch and then stir this mixture into the fruit.
- Pour filling into pie crust, cover with topping. Set pie on foil lined baking sheet. Bake for 1 ½ hours at 350 or until golden brown and filling is bubbling over.
- Excellent served hot with a scoop of vanilla ice cream!