It’s back, baby! (albeit a few weeks later than normal)
Nine years later and I still find that there’s no better way to close out summer than throwing random pie recipes at my fellow food bloggers.
So let’s get into mine.
My recipe comes courtesy of Camilla’s Culinary Adventures.
From Borden Great American Pies Cookbook, Savory and Sweet (1990) it’s Candy Apple Cheese Pie.
I like my pie. I like that it’s a dessert pie (I feel like I’m always making savory–see at end of post) and is visually interesting. I also like that I’ve never heard of a candy apple pie before. How novel!
As you can see, the recipe is pretty straightforward and hard to fuck up.
OR SO I THOUGHT!
Firstly, has anyone ever purchased sliced apples in a can? As in not apple pie filling but just sliced apples?
This item does not exist at my grocery store, so instead I thinly sliced apples. But then I looked back at the photo and they are clearly wedges. And I didn’t have another apple. That was strike one!
I don’t know if it was the fact that I used real lemon juice from real lemons–not RealLemon lemon juice from concentrate–or the reduced fat cream cheese, but the pie filling was runny and wouldn’t fully set.
Or at least how I hoped it would set. I was imagining more of a cheesecake-type center, but that would be impossible given the viscosity of (EAGLE BRAND) sweetened condensed milk. Strike two!
Now for the candy apple portion of the pie–which was another instance where my expectations did not meet my reality.
So, when I think candy apple, I think of a hard coating. That is what a candy apple is, yes? No?
I don’t know! And now I’m wondering if I’ve ever had a candy apple.
Well, even if not a candy shell, I was envisioning a GLAZE of some sort; but melting down cinnamon candies does not a glaze make. Strike three!
I guess it looks okay. But can you see how runny the topping is? It kept trying to escape the pie pan. Even after “setting” in the refrigerator for over an entire day, this was it:
So this was sloppy.
Taste-wise–it was nowhere near as cinnamonn-y as I expected it to be. But good!
In an effort to make the pie more substantial, I threw it in the freezer.
After a night in the freezer:
It kept its shape and essentially became an ice cream pie. With the pie crust and apple slices, this is what I imagine an Apple Pie DQ Blizzard would turn out.
Is that all ice cream is–cream cheese and condensed milk?
In closing, this pie went from being a small disaster to a small triumph.
Please now go check on all the other pies!
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This looks delicious! I love the idea of making it an ice cream pie too! xx
I wonder what they did to get that bright red in the photo? It looks like a really good ice cream pie, though! After you say it's like a Blizzard, I really want to make one.
Thank you for organizing the Pieathlon!
lots of food coloring, I suppose.
I'm glad you were able to turn it into something good! I had high hopes after reading through the recipe, especially for the melted cinnamon candies. I am craving an actual candied apple now, though.
Thanks for another fun Pieathalon!
Sorry you were stuck with a runny filling too! At least you were able to save yours. I'm sure the texture of mine would have been better if I froze it, but it would still have tasted the same.
This was a very intriguing pie recipe! I would totally attempt it, and I'm glad you still enjoyed it. I've never heard of plain, canned apples either, but then they used to have all kinds of things in a can that they don't make anymore.
Thanks for hosting and for baking the recipe I submitted. Love the frozen fix. Sorry the original didn't work out as planned.
I've been cooking at my old music camp the past couple of summers (French toast for 75, anyone?). Can confirm that sliced apples in a can is a thing -- at least in a #10 can. We use them to make our apple crisp.
The frozen version of this pie sounds really good, especially as it is still "summer hot" in SoCal.
This sounds great! I wonder if you could just get a can of apple pie filling and rinse it real well? I also have never heard of canned apples, but then I never heard of a whole chicken in a can until I moved to West Virginia:)
Hold up. Chicken in a can is STILL a thing in WV?
chicken in a can is still a thing in a lot of places ...... we use them to make soup .....
Ha! I looked up canned apples when I started reading this, just to see if they were still a thing, and most of the results were for #10 cans. Apparently, the most popular format for canned sliced apples is the #10 can, which is waaay more canned apples than an individual is likely to want.