Blueberry And Pecan Crunch Pie Recipes

BLUEBERRY AND PECAN CRUNCH PIE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375. Line pie tin with crust. Sprinkle cake crumb into pie crust.
• In small bowl, combine sugar, cornstarch, ginger root, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Mix well; set aside.
• In a large bowl, combine blueberries, juice, and zest (go light on zest). Mix gently and fold into sugar mixture. Pour into shell. Set pan on baking sheet. Bake at 375 for 15 minutes.
• While pie is baking, combine first five topping ingredients. Cut in butter until mixture resembles small peas. After pie has baked 15 minutes, sprinkle topping on hot pie. Reduce oven to 350 and continue baking for 60 minutes. If topping over browns, cover loosely. Cool 6 to 8 hours.

TRUE BLUE CUSTARD CRUNCH PIE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
• Beat together sour cream, 3/4 cup sugar, egg, 2 tablespoons flour, vanilla extract and salt in a mixing bowl until smooth. Gently fold the blueberries into the sour cream mixture. Spoon the filling into the unbaked pie crust.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 25 minutes.
• While the filling is baking, prepare the streusel crunch topping: In a medium bowl combine 3 tablespoons flour and 2 tablespoons sugar. Cut the cold butter into the flour mixture until crumbly. Fold in the chopped pecans. After the filling has baked 25 minutes, sprinkle the streusel crunch topping over the top of the pie.
• Bake until the topping is golden brown, about 15 additional minutes.

BLUEBERRY-PECAN STREUSEL PIE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 400°F. Place cookie sheet in oven.
• In medium bowl, toss Filling ingredients until well mixed. Spoon evenly into frozen pie crust.
• Bake on cookie sheet 55 to 60 minutes or until topping is bubbly and crust edges are light golden brown. Cover crust edges with strips of foil last 20 minutes to prevent excessive browning.
• In small bowl, mix Topping ingredients with fork until crumbly.
• Remove pie from oven. Sprinkle topping evenly over filling. Cover edges of crust with foil strips. Return to cookie sheet.
• Bake 15 to 20 minutes or until topping is golden brown. Cool completely, about 3 hours.

BLUEBERRY-PEACH PIE WITH PECAN CRUMB TOPPING

Steps:

• Place prepared pie crust (one that has been rolled out, placed in 9-inch pie pan, and edges crimped/fluted) in the freezer for 15 minutes; preheat oven to 400°.
• In a large bowl, combine the blueberries, peaches, ½ cup sugar, lime juice, and lime zest; mix well and then set aside for 10 minutes.
• In a small bowl, mix the cornstarch and 2 tablespoons sugar; stir this mixture into the fruit mixture.
• Turn the filling into the chilled pie crust; smoothing the top with a spoon or your hands; place the pie on the center oven rack and bake for 30 minutes.
• Meanwhile, to make the topping-combine the flour, pecans, sugar, and salt in a food processor; pulse several times to chop the nuts coarsely.
• Scatter the butter over the top and pulse again until the mixture resembles fine crumbs.
• Sprinkle the milk over the mixture and pulse again briefly.
• Transfer the topping to a bowl and rub it between your fingers to make damp, gravelly crumbs; refrigerate until ready to use.
• Remove the pie from the oven and decrease temperature to 375°; carefully dump the crumbs in the center of the pie; spreading them evenly over the surface with your hands.
• Tamp them down lightly; return pie to oven, placing it so that the part that faced the back of the oven now faces forward.
• Slide a large foil-lined baking sheet onto the rack below to catch any drips.
• Continue to bake 30-40 minutes until the juices bubble thickly around the edge.
• If necessary, cover the pie with loosely tented foil for the last 15 minutes to keep the top from getting too brown.
• Transfer pie to a wire rack; let cook for at least 2 hours before serving.