Old Fashioned Homemade Applesauce Pie

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This old fashioned homemade applesauce pie tastes like something out of grandma’s kitchen. Save yourself time by using canned biscuits for the crust.

For as long as I’ve known him, my husband has talked about his grandmother’s homemade applesauce pie with a biscuit crust.

It was his favorite dessert she made, but Grandma never wrote down the recipe. So no one has been able to replicate it exactly.

For my husband’s birthday yesterday, I decided to try to make a version of Grandma’s Applesauce Pie.

It was a hit. Not exactly like Grandma used to make, but every bit as delicious.

A new tradition is born — and unlike Grandma, I’m sharing the recipe! Seriously, write your recipes down and share them. My free printable recipe binder makes it easy.

With the biscuit crust and the dense applesauce filling, this pie ended up tasting like apple bread pudding.

Now, I did make homemade applesauce for my filling since we had a bunch of apples left from a recent trip to the orchard.

But I realize not everybody has time for that, so it’s perfectly fine to pick up a jar of applesauce to use in the pie.

It will be delish either way.

For this recipe, I used canned Grands! biscuits. They make a delicious crust that will rise when you bake the pie. Just be sure to press the dough evenly into your pie pan and seal any seams or gaps.

Because the dough will rise when you cook it, be careful not to overfill the pie crust or you may have a mess to clean up.

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Old Fashioned Homemade Applesauce Pie

Prep Time

15 mins

Cook Time

45 mins

Total Time

1 hr

 

This old-fashioned applesauce pie tastes similar to bread pudding with its homemade biscuit crust and dense applesauce filling. It's wonderful topped with ice cream.

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Servings: 8 slices

Calories: 663 kcal

Ingredients

For the Pie

• 1 can Pillsbury Grands!® biscuits
• 1 cup applesauce homemade recipe to follow
• 2 eggs
• 2 Tablespoons all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon nutmeg
• cinnamon
• 1 stick melted butter
• ½ cup to 1 cup sugar optional, depending on the sweetness of your applesauce
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

For the Homemade Applesauce

• 12 apples peeled, cored and chopped
• 1½ cups water
• juice of ½ lemon
• ¾ cups sugar
• ¾ TBS cinnamon

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Press 5 Grands!® biscuits into the bottom of a regular 9-inch pie pan. Be sure to seal all seams and press the biscuit dough up the sides of the pan. Pierce with a fork and sprinkle with cinnamon.
3. Use a mixer to combine eggs, cooled melted butter, vanilla and optional sugar. (Depending on how sweet you applesauce is, you may not need to add more sugar. (My homemade applesauce was a bit tart, so I used ½ cup sugar in my pie.)
4. Mix in applesauce, flour and nutmeg.
5. Pour mixture onto crust, being careful not to overfill. Sprinkle with cinnamon.
6. Place the pie pan on a baking sheet and bake for 45 minutes, until the center is set. You may need to cover the edge of the pie with foil to keep the crust from getting too brown.

For the Homemade Applesauce

1. If you have time, I do recommend using homemade applesauce in this pie.
2. Place the cored and chopped apples, lemon juice and water in a large pan.
3. Cover. Bring to a low boil over medium low heat.
4. Stir occasionally, using the back of a spoon to mash the apples as they soften.
5. Continue cooking covered for 10-15 minutes until the apples are soft and the sauce is the desired consistency.
6. Remove from heat and stir in sugar and cinnamon. You may need to add more sugar, depending on how tart you want your applesauce to be.

Nutrition Facts

Old Fashioned Homemade Applesauce Pie

Amount Per Serving

Calories 663 Calories from Fat 198

% Daily Value*

Total Fat 22g 34%

Saturated Fat 9g 45%

Cholesterol 72mg 24%

Sodium 667mg 28%

Potassium 459mg 13%

Total Carbohydrates 115g 38%

Dietary Fiber 8g 32%

Sugars 77g

Protein 6g 12%

Vitamin A 11.4%

Vitamin C 15.6%

Calcium 6.3%

Iron 14.7%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

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