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Apple blueberry crumble pie recipe

The name says it all: apple and blueberry pies combined with delicious apple crumble topping. If you don’t like dark pie crust, shield the pastry with tinfoil during the last 15 minutes of baking.

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Apple blueberry crumble pie

Lori Lampert
The name says it all: apple and blueberry pies combined with delicious apple crumble topping.
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Prep Time 25 mins
Bake Time 50 mins
Course Dessert
Servings 1 9 inch pie

Equipment

  • 1 food processor - can omit and simply mix by hand if desired

Ingredients
  

Pastry

  • cup all-purpose flour
  • cup unsalted butter cubed
  • cup cream cheese cubed
  • 1 tbsp granulated sugar

Filling

  • 1 tbsp dry bread crumbs
  • 4 large apples peeled, cored, and sliced
  • cups fresh blueberries
  • ½ cup granulated sugar
  • cup all-pupose flour
  • 1 tsp cinnamon

Crumble Topping

  • 1 cup all-purpose flour
  • ½ cup packed brown sugar
  • ½ cup unsalted butter cubed
  • ½ tsp cinnamon

Instructions
 

Pastry

  • Combine all ingredients in a food processor bowl. Process for about 20 seconds or until dough forms a ball. (Or rub butter and cream cheese into flour-sugar mixture with fingertips until the dough clumps together. Gather into a ball.)
  • Flatten ball into a disk. Chill if necessary for easy rolling.
  • Roll out on floured surface ⅛” thick. Line a 9” deep-dish pie plate with pastry. Trim and crimp edges. Chill while preparing the filling.

Filling

  • Sprinkle bread crumbs over bottom of pie shell.
  • Toss remaining ingredients together to coat fruit evenly.
  • Turn into pastry, mounding in centre.

Crumble Topping

  • Combine all ingredients in a food processor or with fingertips until crumbly.
  • Pat mixture evenly over filling.

Bake

  • Bake in preheated 400°F oven on the lower rack 45-50 minutes or until the fruit is tender.

Notes

If you don’t like dark pie crust, shield the pastry with tinfoil during the last 15 minutes of baking.
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This recipe was originally published in the April/May 2001 issue of Cottage Life.

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