Do you remember the trip to the apple orchard that I took a couple of weeks ago? That trips was spurred by the need to get the absolute freshest fruit for my mission to bake an Apple Pie – something I had never done before. I didn’t know if it was supposed to be easy or hard to make apple pie, but I know the hardest part is to get the perfect crust (at least that’s what I’ve heard.) I figured that for my first time, I didn’t have to bake TOTALLY from scratch and used Pillsbury’s Refrigerated Pie Crusts to help ensure the perfect pie.
About Pillsbury Pie Crusts
To celebrate all that apple harvest brings, Pillsbury is encouraging families to join in the fun in a number of ways this fall.
Get the family involved in making pies and other treats together. Pillsbury Pie Crusts are an easy base for your favorite warm apple treats. Simply unroll into a pie plate, fill with your favorite variety of sliced apples and filling, and bake! From orchard to oven, Pillsbury Pie Crusts make apple pie baking simple with delicious results.
The Review
Once I had my Pillsbury Refrigerated Pie Crusts in hand (purchased from the refrigerated section at the grocery store) it was time to find a recipe. I thought that the Perfect Apple Pie recipe looked easy enough and had 4.5 stars out of 500+ reviews which made me think it must be pretty good. After selecting the recipe, I went to work and quickly realized why apple pie isn’t always the go-to pie of choice. Peeling, coring and slicing 6 apples is no joke. Maybe I wasn’t doing it the most efficient way (paring knife to peel, corer to core and slice, then slicing the slices into thinner apple slices) but from the get-go this apple pie became a labor of love.
Thank goodness I didn’t have to do anything with the Pillsbury Refrigerated Pie Crusts. I simply let them sit out to room temperature and then went to work. First the bottom crust goes into the pie dish, making sure to press the dough into the edges. Even with my sharp fingernails, the dough didn’t tear or get to thin as it was molded into the proper shape. Next, I filled the dish with the apple mixture, and finally I topped it with the second crust (there are two crusts per box). I used a fork to mush the top and bottom crusts together and then sliced the holes into the top of the pie.
I baked the pie in the oven for about 40 minutes – being tantalized by the aroma of freshly baked apple pie for half of that time. I made sure to cover the edges of the crust with foil after the first 15 minutes to make sure they didn’t burn. I pulled open the oven door and took out the pie with my breath held, waiting to see how my first apple pie would look. It didn’t look bad at all (if I do say so myself.)
The crust cooked up perfectly. It came out a lovely golden brown with totally unburnt edges (yay!) Both the top and the bottom were the right amount of crispness (not too hard or too soft) and they both had a lovely flake to them. Between the four of us, the pie lasted less than a day. My fellow testers were impressed that I was able to make such and edible pie.
I have to give credit to both Pillsbury Refrigerated Pie Crusts and the Pillsbury Perfect Apple Pie recipe for helping to increase my kitchen cred. I’m sure that had I tried to make the pie crust on my own, the outcome would’ve been very different. I don’t even have a rolling pin.
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The WiC Project Pillsbury Pie Crusts Giveaway
The Prize:
One winner will receive a Pillsbury “Love the Pie” prize pack which includes a VIP coupon for a free sample of Pillsbury® Refrigerated Pie Crusts, a pie dish, and apple themed kitchen items.
To Enter:
- In the comments below, let me know one of your family’s fall harvest rituals ( such as going apple picking or baking a pie with freshly picked apples, etc.)
- For one bonus entry, “Like” Pillsbury’s “Love the Pie” on Facebook or follow Pillsbury’s “Love the Pie” on Twitter. Feel free to let them know The WiC Project sent you. 🙂
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The Rules:
Giveaway ends at 11:59 PM EST, November 15, 2010.
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Disclaimer: This post consists of my (and/or fellow tester) opinions only. Your experience may be different. No compensation was given for this review/giveaway. I did receive free products, information, and giveaway items from Pillsbury through MyBlogSpark to use and test for the purposes of this review. This did not affect the outcome of this review.
for my family, we usually have a huge party and bob for apples. We bake pies from fresh picked pumpkins and make pumpkin bread. [email protected]
Our favorite fall harvest rituals is going to our local pumpkin patch and apple orchard to pick fresh apples and pumpkins!
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My family does like to go pick apples every year, we make a lot of pies and apple crisps.
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Our ritual is baking apple pies. Actually, I made one last night! Yum. Thanks.
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We always go to the pumpkin patch every year.
pie looks great–I don’t need to be included for the prize
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I always make apple pies and pumpkin pies. I used to always make a mincemeat pie for my dad. We also have zucchini muffins made with zucchini from our garden.
We enjoy going to the farmer’s market and picking out a pumpkin for pies!
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Our fall harvest ritual is making baked apples with cinnamon. LPoser1 [at] gmail [dot] com
Well… making pie, of course! I used to think baking an apple pie was an elaborate affair. Until, my mother confessed her delicious and well known pie recipe was simple — and she’s used Pillsbury Refrigerated Crusts for YEARS. Love it! mamaellesays {at} gmail {dot} com
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Your pie looks wonderful! My family goes to a semi-local orchard every year, and they have tractors that drag you out to pick apples, and a pumpkin coach ride that takes you out to pick your own pumpkins.
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We use apples that we pick to make apple pies all year round as we freeze some.
Our fall starts with fresh baked Apple/Pear pie and a Hearty meat stew.
My family and I always goto our local Apple Orchard and get the Honey Crisp apples as soon as they come on. That is our ritual.
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We go to the local pupkin patch every year
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Our fall ritual is making homemade pumpkin pie
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We go to a pumpkin patch to pick out pumpkins.
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We love to bake Pumpkin Pies!
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We always go to our local farmers market to buy apples from local farmers. Then I make lots of recipes with apples in them.
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we like to pick our on apples locally
Our fall ritual – Pears. We have to Bartlett Pear trees so in Sept we have: ginger pear pie, pear cobbler, pear clafouti, pear turnovers, pear butter, pear jam and anything we can think of with pears. I do use a ready made crust most of the time. Our kitchen is so small & the table is in the dining area so it is hard to find a good place to roll out crust.
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Baking apple pie!
Baking apple pie!
Baking apple pie!
Baking apple pie!
My family always makes pecan pie together the day before Thanksgiving. We all have our roles and it always tastes Great!
We do go apple picking and than we can Applesauce and Apple Butter.
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We don’t have any fall rituals. We just do Halloween also known as All Saints Eve and do a little trick or treating and get ready for Thanksgiving preparations.
My husband, Dad and I all hop on our motorcycles and take a long ride to go to the cider mill. It is a favorite tradition that we have created the past few years.
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We go pick a few pumpkins, my daughter likes baking.
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This year my son picked out some apples from the store and made his first apple pie The apples were great but the crust didn’t turn out very well, I think it was over mixed!
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We did apples in honey.
Great giveaway! My families favorite fall rituals are saying what we’re thankful for around the dinner table on thanksgiving day before dinner. I’m getting married soon and it’d be nice to start some thanksgiving rituals of our own! 🙂
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MOM HAS TO START CHECKING ALL HER CHRISTMAS ITEMS REALLY, REALLY EARLY IN THE FALL
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We do something totally different as a Fall tradition! First, we get a family picture taken in the mountains. While we are up there, we find pinecones and bring them home and paint them for Christmas ornaments for the tree. (One year, we painted them Silver and Gold.) I think this year, we are going to find Acorns! Its’ a fun family outing!
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We belong to an organics coop. We make pumpkin pie and apple charlotte.
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going apple picking
We always go to a local orchard and go apple picking!
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Carving jackolanterns for Halloween.
we just started going apple picking this yr, and we had so much fun
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We have our own apple trees, so we like to make applesauce.
Our family fall harvest ritual is visiting our local apple orchard!
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We make chili
We make homemade applesauce every year.
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the only fall ritual we have is going to our local farmers market for apples, squash and pumpkins
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we bake apple pies
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My husband makes apple pies which I always look forward to.
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I can’t say we have any rituals. Just enjoy all the holidays I guess 🙂
We pick all the apples off of our two trees and store them for the winter. We give extra to friends/family to enjoy.
We pick all the apples off of our two trees and store them for the winter. We give extra to friends/family to enjoy.
We love to bake pies in the fall.
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I wait for a crop of apples to be delivered to the grocery store. I won’t pick apples that have been there for awhile. I select the best ones and use them to make a pie. The freshest apples are the best.
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we aklways go to the pumpkin patch
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We always have a big bon fire after doing the final harvest of our garden.
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We always go to a pumpkin patch before Halloween to get pumpkins and take pictures.
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We make lots of pies and eat them! 😀
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we went with the kids to a pumkin patch, carved pumpkins and decorated for halloween – now goin to decorate for thanksgiving
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We like to go to the Apple Orchard and then make apple pies!
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We love fall decor. My favorite thing is buying bails of hay and decorating with pumkins and leaves, squash.
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The fall cleaning out of the garden and putting it to ” sleep” for the winter. The pumpkins, squash, and potatoes come and are stored for use when it gets cold
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I like to bake an apple pie.
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We love to go apple picking
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During the Fall, we do Saturday raking in the yard. At night, we build a fire and sip hot apple cider. Thank you for the chance to win.
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Oh we love pumpkins here! Pumpkin pie all the way is our tradition, but apple is a very close second! We like to roast the seeds if we have time as well. kekagel(at)yahoo.com
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No harvest rituals here. 🙁
We have two apple trees in our yard—so we get to pick all the apples–sort them—then give the bad ones to the animals and make lots of apple crisp for us.
my family would take long drives to see all the different colored leaves.
We always go to the pumpkin patch and after carving the pumpkins we make homade pumpkin pie and pumpkin seeds :0)
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we do alot of baking
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Ours is raking the leaves every weekend. We make huge piles and jump and play in them. Love to make leave tunnels. So much fun!
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Every year we go apple picking at a local orchard with our three children. They are 24,22 and 20, things haven’t changed too much. My boys enjoy juggling apples, they also see who can fit the most in their shirts( don’t worry we do pay for them), and we taste test to see which kind of apples we like best. We end up with atleast 60 apples. I always use pillsbury pie crusts, tastes like scratch. Apple dumplings with custard sauce is their favorite. We have been apple picking for 23 and a half years, and its always been enjoyable, with a lot of laughs.
My boss brings me key limes from his yard and I always make a Key Lime pie for Thanksgiving.
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We go apple picking at the apple orchards
We like raking up leaves and jumping in them!
It’s not a tradition yet but just moved and our yard has a nice apple tree. I would love to learn how to can and make a tradition of making all kinds of apple products.
We like to get pumpkins and dry out the seeds for a snack! Thanks!
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We like go to blueberry picking in July. aleksa91 hotmail com
We always go to the orchards and get lots of peaches and apples and other goodies to can for winter.
We like to make Banana bread,raisin pie, and choc pie and talk about who’s going to be here for thanksgiving and what we are going to make. Always fun! Thanks! jacquecurl1(at)gmail(dot)com
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In the fall we love to bake pies! suelee1998 @ gmail.com
Our fall tradition is going to the pumpkin patch and picking out pumpkins and fall mums.
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We always go apple picking Than its apple sauce, apple butter, apple brownies, apple pie, Apple everything for two weeks. [email protected]
We bake butternut squash au gratin during the fall!
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One of our traditions for fall is having a fire in our fire pit the first cold night we have (which here in FL is usually not until November). Then we sit around the fire with hot cocoa and enjoy the warmth from the inside and out.
we always bake cranberry bread in the fall
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Our family ritual is collecting an assortment of beautiful leaves and pumpkin picking!
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We go to the pumpkin patch!
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My family love to baked apple pies with fresh apples from the market.
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We dont have a ritual but id love to start one
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We always come home with fresh fruit and make simple fruit cobblers/crisps. Fruit, sugar, flour and butter. Life is good.
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We take our kids to the pumpkin patch for a day of fun and, of course, picking out that perfect pumpkin! It’s a fall treat since it is only open at that time.
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We love to go apple picking in the fall. We canned apple pie filling and made jars of apple butter for Christmas gifts this year. Delicious!
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We love to go apple pickin in the fall and come home and make homemade applesauce..the smells go thru the house and it smell so good…I then make about 4 apple pies to freeze for the holidays. So all I have to do is take them out and bake them and they smell just as good as the day I made the. [email protected]
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Having pumpkin pie is one of our biggest fall rituals.
Making caramel apples.
We go to the Cider Mill & we pick apples every year
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I have an out date pills berry pie crust in my frig. It is 13 days out dated. Purchased and has always been refrigerated. Can I still use it