Joe's Awesome Pear Apple Cranberry Pie with Gingersnap Topping
Holiday pie made with pears, apples and cranberries
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Prep Time 20 minutesminutes
Cook Time 1 hourhour30 minutesminutes
Total Time 1 hourhour50 minutesminutes
Servings 8
Author Cookie Madness
Ingredients
9” unbaked pie crust
Topping
1/2cupflour
2 1/2tablespoonssugar
2 1/2tablespoonsbrown sugar
6gingersnapscrushed
pinchof salt
4tablespoonsbutter
Filling
2Bosc pears
1very large12 oz Granny Smith apple or 2 small
3/4cupcranberries
1tablespoonlemon juice
1/2teaspoonlemon zest
1/4teaspoonvanilla extract
6tablespoonsgranulated sugar
1tablespooncorn starch
Instructions
Making the topping:
In a bowl, mix flour, sugar, brown sugar, gingersnaps, ginger, and salt. Stir in melted butter until large crumbs form.
Making the filling:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. 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 or until golden brown and filling is bubbling over.
Excellent served hot with a scoop of vanilla ice cream!