Lindsey: {Recipe} Holiday Cherry Apple Pie

Hey everyone! I am Lindsey from Lindseys and Wildflowers and I am so happy to be guest posting for Christa as I read her blog every day!
I thought I would share my recipe for me all-time favorite pie, Cherry Apple!
I make this pie for Thanksgiving and Christmas every year. It is always a big hit!

Cherry Apple Pie (makes 1 pie)
INGREDIENTS – CRUST (need to make 2)
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
3/4 cup cold Crisco
8-10 tablespoons ice cold water
INGREDIENTS – FILLING
1 can cherry pie filling (I prefer the double fruit kind)
3-4 granny smith apples
1/4 cup sugar
1 tablespoon cinnamon
DIRECTIONS – CRUST

1. Combine the flour, sugar and cinnamon in a medium bowl.
2. Cut in the Crisco until it forms pea-sized crumbles.
   
3. Add water, starting with 5 tablespoons and mix with your hands. Keep adding water tablespoon by tablespoon until it forms into a ball.
   
4. Wrap in plastic wrap and pat into a disk shape. Refrigerate for at least 30 minutes.
   
5. Repeat to make one more dough.
6. Roll out the dough until it is large enough for the pie tin. Using a knife cut the extra crust off.
   
7. With the second dough, roll out and cut into strips for the lattice crust.

DIRECTIONS – FILLING

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. Empty the cherry pie filling into a medium-sized bowl.
3. Peel and chopped the apples and put into the bowl.
4. Stir in the sugar and cinnamon.
   
5. Dump into the pie tin.
   
6. Make the lattice topping with strips of pie crust. Dust with more cinnamon sugar.
   
7. Bake for an hour. Cool before serving!

I hope you guys enjoy this recipe! It is such a nice pairing! It actually was a happy accident and now it is my favorite pie!
Lindsey
J Lindsey

Sunday Baking {{Banana Bread}}

I LOVE baking.

I dont necessarily like COOKING but i love baking yummy stuff.

My mom baked all the time growing up and its one of those traditions i want to pass down to my kids. Majority of my fondest memories are baking with my mom.

I love the aroma filling my house of something baking in the oven :)

Makes it so much more "homey"

{{Banana Bread}}

with my mothers touch :)

Set your oven to 350

Bray helping mommy :)

You will need:

1/2 cup butter

1 cup sugar

2 eggs

2 medium bananas

1/4 cup milk

1 tsp vanilla extract

2 cups flour

1 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp salt

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Cream together butter, sugar, & eggs.

 Stir in banana, milk, and vanilla

 If you've never made banana bread.. its best to use banana's that are going brown

Add in remaining ingredients

{{now for my mothers touch}}

This is optional:

1/2-1 cup of chocolate chips!

depending on how chocolatey you want it :)

mmmmm banana's and chocolate.....

add into a bread pan like so.....

 (this pic has no chocolate chips from a previous time i made banana bread)

Bake at 350 degrees for 50 minutes!

AND ENJOY!

maybe go run around the block a couple times afterward if your worried about the calories

but everyone need a little indulgence once in a while!

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