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baked american flag pie

American Flag Pie

Equipment

  • Star shaped cookie cutter
  • Large cookie sheet
  • Rolling Pin
  • 9 inch pie dish
  • 2 rigid flat surfaces (about the size of an index card).
  • 3 large bowls for mixing wet and dry ingredients
  • Measuring tools: 1 Cup, 1 Tablespoon, 1/4 teaspoon
  • Pastry brush
  • Pie wheel

Ingredients
  

  • 2 Pie Crusts for top and bottom crust
  • 2 Pounds Strawberries fresh
  • 1 Pound Blueberries fresh
  • 1 Cup AP Flour
  • 1 Cup Sugar
  • 1 Tablespoon Corn Starch
  • 1/4 teaspoon Lemon extract
  • 1 Tablespoon Cold cubed butter salted or unsalted
  • 1 Small Egg use the egg white only

Instructions
 

  • Combine all of your dry ingredients (flour, sugar, and corn starch) into one bowl.
  • Rinse all of your fresh fruit (strawberries and blueberries) keep in separate bowls.
  • Cut up your strawberries into quarters.
  • Mix lemon extract with the strawberries.
  • Mix about 3/4 of the dry ingredients with the strawberries and set aside.
  • Mix the rest of the dry ingredients with the blueberries in a separate bowl and set aside.
  • Dust your counter top with flour and get your cold bottom pie crust out of the fridge.
  • Shape your bottom pie crust with your floured rolling pin into a large circle. Place your pie crust in your pie dish and shape the edges. Put the pie dish with bottom crust back in the fridge to keep cold.
  • Pull out the top crust from the fridge. Roll out the dough into a long rectangle. Cut out your stars and stripes. Put them on the cookie sheet and back into the fridge.
  • Use a couple flat surfaces to divide the pie circle into a quarter section. Fill this section with the blueberry mixture. The rest of the 3/4 of the pie will be filled with the strawberry mixture. Carefully pull out your flat dividers and adjust the fruit if needed.
  • Take the stars and stripes back out of the fridge and place your stars over the blueberries and the stripes over the strawberries.
  • Dot your pie with butter and give the crust a quick wash with a mix of egg white and a splash of water. Sprinkle the top of your pie with a little bit of granulated sugar and put your whole pie in the fridge to firm up.
  • While your pie is firming up in the fridge, preheat your oven to 425 F or 218 C
  • Bake your American flag pie for about 30-45 minutes
  • Let it cool for at least 30 min to an hour and serve it up with some vanilla ice cream!