This is a recipe for an alternative to apple pie. It is just like an apple pie with apples in every way. If you didn’t know any better, you’d assume that the beverage contained actual fruit. An old chemical lab exercise to demonstrate the limitations of the senses is presented here.
| Prep Time: | 10 mins |
| Cook Time: | 40 mins |
| Total Time: | 50 mins |
| Servings: | 8 |
| Yield: | 1 pie |
Ingredients
- 1 (14.1 ounce) package double-crust pie pastry, thawed
- 2 cups water
- 1 ½ cups white sugar
- 1 ½ teaspoons cream of tartar
- 25 buttery round crackers
- ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 2 tablespoons butter
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 450 degrees F (225 degrees C).
- Roll out pastry, place bottom pastry into a pie pan, and set aside.
- Bring water to a boil in a large saucepan.
- Mix together sugar and cream of tartar in a small bowl. Add mixture to boiling water. Stir, then add crackers, one at a time. Boil for 3 minutes, but do not stir.
- Pour cracker mixture into the pastry-lined pie pan. Sprinkle crackers with cinnamon and dot with butter. Cover with top pastry. Seal edges and cut steam vents in the top.
- Bake in the preheated oven until crust is golden brown, about 30 minutes. You may need to cover the top pastry partway through baking to prevent burning.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 456 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 65 g |
| Cholesterol | 8 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 2 g |
| Protein | 4 g |
| Saturated Fat | 6 g |
| Sodium | 355 mg |
| Sugars | 38 g |
| Fat | 21 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
My wife and I really liked it. She is gluten free. Recipes worked out really well (as a gluten free recipes). Just the GF ritz style crackers are a little smaller and required longer in the water/sugar mix.
made it for the girls I work with in a deli a couple of years ago they keep asking me to make it again they couldn’t believe there was no apples in it. Going to make it Today for the new girls.
This was really good. I served this to my class(52 people) and everyone loved it. I used like 30-36 crackers, but after I baked the pie and took it out of the oven, I removed the most shown crackers. If you can’t find the cream of tartar, use baking powder. I used it and it tasted delicious. 🙂
I remember my grandmother making this when I was young and loved it. I have tried this recipe on many people and they are totally convinced they are eating apple pie. So have some fun this is a quick to make recipe. Go figure, I forgot to put the top crust on it. Still YUMMY
Man…. If I only had this recipe on my last Antarctica expedition when all I had was a pie pan, some ritz crackers, and a hankering for some hot apple pie…..
Very good. Tasted very much like apple pie. I used Ritz Crackers. It was much better after it was completely cold (in refrigerator for a day or so). Delicious with Cool Whip topping. Fooled husband and son.
Everyone loved this. Unless I told them, no one knew it was made with crackers. It is simple and QUICK to make especially when when you use a premade crust. I have made this half a dozen times already.
This was ok and tasty for what it was but I was shocked to find that people tasted apple…. cinnamon yes but not apple, lol. The version I have of this is 50+ yrs old and used apple juice not water. Otherwise was the same… and tasted like cinnamon and APPLES. Lol!
Love it. Was fun to make.
I love this recipe! I learned this in high school, and it really does taste like apples!
I was craving apple pie, late, and had no apples. So I tried this. It does in fact taste like apple pie. It is missing something though (other than apples!) Maybe nutmeg or some other spice. Pretty good to have no apples and helped my craving for the night! *EDIT* This was awful the next day unless it was warmed up and half of the cracker mix taken out of the crust
Just kidding sounds good
I think this was a great recipe. My mother is allergic to apples but LOVES apple pie and severely misses it. I can’t wait to see the look on her face when she tries it! Thanks for the recipe!
Yum!
This pie was decent, the taste wasnt bad…..but paired with coffee, it was not so delectable!!! overall, it was decent though.
Awesome! Cheap, easy, fast and Delicious!
I made this out of curiosity,didn.t tell my family & they were quite impressed.
We used this as a science project for our homeschooling family. It was so much fun! For what it is, it’s a great recipe. I read many reviewers who said theirs turned out runny. To guard against that, I added 1 tsp of tapioca and allowed to completely cool before slicing. I had nice clean slices. I also used real apple pie spice instead of cinnamon alone.
omg, this pie was very good! i was surprised at how tasty it was since there were no apples! definently making this for thanksgiving!
Was too watery so i added more crackers and some cornstarch, will try the tapioca next time. My husband is allergic to apples but loves them, this is a good comprimise. Will keep my eye out for low sodium crackers and will add vitamin powder instead of the cornstarch I added this time. Thanks for the heads up on the nutrition content.
this is pretty interesting. i just made the filling. i didnt have buttery crackers, so i used honey bunches of oats. now its got this oat-y texture and a hint of honey. not bad, kinda like a granola bar. delicious!