10+ Recipes Using Apple Pie Filling (2024)

FAQs

Should I add anything to canned pie filling? ›

Add Fresh Ingredients: Incorporate fresh fruits or berries into the store-bought filling. For example, if you're using a canned cherry pie filling, add fresh pitted cherries to improve the texture and flavor. Enhance Flavor with Spices: Adjust the flavor with spices and seasonings.

Yes, you can eat apple pie filling out of the can without prior cooking. It's precooked when canned, so it's safe to eat. What is this? This is useful for when you want to use apple pie filling for no bake recipes such as No Bake Caramel Apple Cheesecake or No Bake Apple Pie Phyllo Cups.

All-purpose flour is an easy solution, as you're sure to have it in your pantry. Since it's lower in starch, you'll use more of it than you would higher-starch thickeners. Quick-cooking tapioca makes filling bright and clear, but also gives it a stippled and somewhat sticky texture.

The best way to thicken runny apple pie filling before baking it is to add some cornstarch, tapioca starch, or flour to your mix. To fix a runny pie that's already been baked, simply let it cool to see if it will congeal naturally. If not, you can stick it back in the oven for a bit longer.

If using already prepared cherry pie filling (canned) it doesn't need to be cooked. If making a pudding or cream (cheesecake-as long as there are no raw eggs in it) filling with cherry topping it doesn't need to be baked.

Add Fresh Ingredients: Incorporate fresh fruits or berries into the store-bought filling. For example, if you're using a canned cherry pie filling, add fresh pitted cherries to improve the texture and flavor.

You can eat your homemade pie filling right out of the jar. If you'd like you don't even have to use it in pies. You could use it as an ice cream topper, on top of yogurt, oatmeal, or by itself.

Ideally, you want to be in the 45 minute to one hour range. The filling of the pie turned to mush because Granny Smith apples completely collapse and do turn to mush when fully cooked. (They are great for applesauce for that reason.) Many other apples will become soft but hold their apple shape - not Granny Smith.

Cornstarch makes for a shiny, glossy filling. A little goes a long way because it has twice the gelling power of flour. Flour thickens nicely but leaves more of a matte finish. You'll need to use twice as much as you would with cornstarch.

What apples not to use for apple pie? ›

There are a few apples that don't make the cut. While great for snacking, Gala, Fuji and Red Delicious are the most common apples that won't hold up in the oven and will give you a watery-mushy pie, tart or cake.

Why do double-crust fruit pie recipes call for dotting the top of the filling with butter? Some say that scattering small bits of butter over a fruit filling keeps the juices from bubbling over in the same way that adding a bit of fat to simmering jam keeps it from foaming up in the preserving pan.

A quick and simple way to give your canned cherry pie filling a homemade taste is to add more flavor. Use dried spices or flavor extracts to up the flavor without adding more sugar. Start with a teaspoon of vanilla or almond extract. From there, get creative with cinnamon, ginger, cloves or nutmeg.

Very often flour or cornstarch is used, but in certain instances tapioca, arrowroot and potato starch can also help achieve the desired consistency.

Which one you use is a matter of personal preference. Cornstarch makes for a shiny, glossy filling. A little goes a long way because it has twice the gelling power of flour. Flour thickens nicely but leaves more of a matte finish.

A: The only difference between Comstock and Wilderness is where it is available. Comstock is available in the East Coast & South while Wilderness is in the Midwest and Pacific NW.