Apple Cranberry Pie Recipe

Are you looking for an easy gluten free pie to make for the upcoming holidays?  Well, Trader Joe's has a new gluten free item that looks just fabulous!  It is apple cranberry pie filling and it's only $3.99 per jar.   All you have to do is make a pie crust or, if you have a Whole Foods near you, they have great ready-made frozen gluten-free pie crust.  There are also many other gluten free pie crust mixes made by other brands that would work just fine as well.

However, if you are inclined to make your own crust, here's a fabulous recipe I found on cooking.com.  After deciding on which crust to use, all you have to do is fill the crust with Trader Joe's Apple Cranberry Pie Filling and bake!  Bon Appetit!

INGREDIENTS

1/3 cup brown rice flour

1/3 cup tapioca flour

1/3 cup potato starch

1 tablespoon cornstarch

2 teaspoons sugar

½ teaspoon gluten-free baking powder

1 ½ teaspoon xanthan gum

½ teaspoon salt

½ cup non-hydrogenated shortening or organic unsalted butter

1 large egg

1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar

DIRECTIONS

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.  Sift together rice and tapioca flour, potato and cornstarch, sugar, baking powder, xanthan gum, and salt into a mixing bowl. Cut cold shortening or butter into dry ingredient. Blend with a pastry cutter until butter in incorporated into eh dry ingredients. The dough should hold together when squeezed.  Beat egg with vinegar and mix into dough.  Form dough into a ball with your hands. Add a little tapioca flour if the dough is too sticky.  Roll out the dough between to sheets of wax paper.  The dough should be about 1 1/2 inches larger in diameter than the pie plate.  Peel one sheet of wax paper away from dough. Place pie curst in pan. Remove top sheet of wax paper. Trim excess dough and crimp edges to form a decorative border.  Bake at 350 degrees F. for 10 to 12 minutes. Cool before filling.