Holiday Rush

☰ Menu
Recipe Tags: Bacon 60 Minutes Or Less Time To Make Course Main Ingredient Cuisine Preparation North American Low Protein Pies And Tarts Desserts Fruit Pork American Pies Dietary Low In Something Apples Meat

Bacon Apple Pie

...with delicious, crispy bacon lattice! Other bacon apple pie recipes call for bacon to be crumbled into the pie filling, but this one uses a bacon weave on top for an extra crispy treat. Note: this recipe calls for canned pie filling and frozen pie crust, but feel free to make your own. Home-made is better, but pre-made is better than nothing.

Steps

Preheat the oven to 400f.
Mix apple pie filling , sugar , cinnamon , nutmeg , and lemon juice in a bowl and pour into pie crust.
Smooth with a spatula.
Create bacon weave on top of pie: lay two strips across the pie so that they intersect in the middle and are at right angles.
Turn the pie so that the lower strip points toward you.
Continue adding more bacon to the left and the right , creating an alternating over-under pattern with the single strip that runs side-to-side.
At this point , there should five or six strips of bacon pointing toward the front of the pie and one strip running side-to-side which weaves over and under the other five or six strips.
Begin laying a strip of bacon next to the on running side-to-side.
Start at one end and create an over-under pattern opposite the first one by lifting up alternating strips , laying this piece down , and replacing the strips you lifted.
Continue on both sides until the pie is completely covered in a bacon lattice with an a.

Ingredients

apple pie filling, pie crust, sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, lemon juice, bacon