For a tasty pie that is full of apple pie flavor but is made without apples, try this faux apple pie recipe! Make certain to serve it hot.
| Prep Time: | 15 mins |
| Cook Time: | 40 mins |
| Total Time: | 55 mins |
| Servings: | 8 |
| Yield: | 1 9-inch pie |
Ingredients
- 2 cups water
- 1 cup white sugar
- 2 teaspoons cream of tartar
- 30 buttery round crackers
- ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1 (9 inch) prepared pie shell
- 1 cup crushed buttery round crackers
- ½ cup packed brown sugar
- ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ⅓ cup butter, melted
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C).
- Make the pie: Bring water, sugar, and cream of tartar to a boil in a medium saucepan over medium-high heat. Drop in whole crackers and boil for 5 minutes. Remove from the heat and pour mixture into pie shell; sprinkle with cinnamon and drizzle with lemon juice.
- Make the topping: Mix crushed crackers, brown sugar, melted butter, and cinnamon together in a small bowl; sprinkle over pie filling.
- Bake in the preheated oven for 15 minutes. Reduce the heat to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C) and continue to bake for 15 to 20 more minutes. Serve warm.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 440 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 62 g |
| Cholesterol | 20 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Protein | 3 g |
| Saturated Fat | 8 g |
| Sodium | 366 mg |
| Sugars | 40 g |
| Fat | 21 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
I used great value items from Walmart and it tasted just as great! Yummy!!! Thanks!
Ive actually made this a few times and it is my fiancé’s favorite pie! It’s so yummy especially with French vanilla ice cream!
This recipe works like a charm and the taste is spot-on! You can replace the sugar with Splenda or stevia. Great recipe that I highly recommend!
I am a 72 year old recent widower trying my hand at cooking Remember this from a while back and thought I would try it. Easy to make and tastes really good. Fooled some friends when I took it for a party. Next time I may add some walnuts or pecans to the topping.
This is a great recipe! Everybody was astounded to find out that there weren’t any apples included in the recipe….delicious!
This was really fun to make and was taste magic. I did not put a crust on top of the crumble because that didn’t seem necessary. Everyone who tried it loved it. The recipe says to serve it warm, but I thought it was just as good after it had been refrigerated.
I had the original recipe from the Nabisco box, but somehow it became lost over the years. Next time I use this recipe, I will try using less water and more vinegar. I think that will help give it more “apple” flavor….otherwise it was fine.
I have made this several times and it’s amazing! You’d swear it was a “real” apple pie. My friends still don’t believe there were no apples in it! Best with vanilla icecream.
This was SO much fun to make with my kids. We home school and this was a very fun experiment and easy enough the kids 13,10 and 5 we able to make it on their own. After reading reviews we did make some tweeks. We added another tablespoon of fresh squeezed lemon, and a little more cinnamon. We did not add the extra crackers in the brown sugar mixture since we read it was too much. We actually just did the brown sugar mixture into the “apple” mixture and then did a criss cross pie top. It tasted AHMAZING!!! We could not believe their was no apple in it. Like just SHOCKED! It was fun and now a family favorite! We will make this often, so cheap, so easy, so FUN!
I made this, and I substituted REAL APPLES for the crackers. IT. WAS. AWESOME!
Black magic! witchcraft! sorcery! The work of old scratch himself, I tell you! I’d bet the devil’s virginity there’s an apple in there….but NO! Dare if you must, but you’ll be conjuring the devil!
My new guilty pleasure! You would swear there were apples in this pie by the aroma, texture and flavor. Even though it’s basically a cracker pie, it doesn’t freak me out because it tastes so good. It is not too sweet, not at all, and the topping is the perfect blend of salty, crunchy sweetness. I wouldn’t change a thing, except maybe the picture, since it shows a lattice crust top which this pie does not have.
I poured the boiled liquid directly over crackers in pie shell. My husband liked the pie!
It was wonderful. My family had no idea that it was not an apple pie until I told them.
Just made this for my chemistry classes. Loved by all! Very applicable to our topic of acidic and basic salts (the cream of tartar is the workhorse in this lesson)! I didn’t have enough crackers for the crumble, so I substituted 1/2 c flour instead.
Mom made these when I was a kid, I loved them over the years I have taken two wives and several girl friends to dinner at moms when this pie was served ….all thought I was crazy when I told them while they were eating it that iy was not made from apples. Now still liveing alone at 60 I made it for myself and it is still GREAT! ! ! O:-) But NOT AS GOOD AS MOM MADE IT! HAHaha
Made this since high school. Liked the layer for top but you can also use normal pie crust if you like.
Love this – no one can believe it is not the real thing. I made this years ago – it was big in the 70’s but lost the recipe. So glad to find it.
husbands favorite! dont know how it magically taste like apples but it does! Husband has a mouth injury and has trouble chewing and really missed apple pie so we tried this recipe and wow. he constantly asks for his apple pie
I have not had this since I was a kid been looking for this recipe for years because I loved it. Back in the 70’s for some reason I do not remember there was a apple shortage and this recipe was being made everywhere. Thank you for having it here.
This was absolutely wonderful! Thank you!!!