Fall Fruits Festival ~ Apples & Giveaway

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Welcome back to the Fall Fruits Festival! Today is all about apples. Yummy apple recipes work for me! An apple-themed giveaway works too! :)

Have you enjoyed all of the Fall Fruits Festival so far? For more yummy recipes and to enter all the giveaways, be sure to stop by:

Day 1 - Pears
Day 2 - Pumpkin

Did you know that apples are a member of the rose family? Did you know that it takes 4-5 years before an apple tree bears its first fruit? Or that apples are 80-85% water? Just some trivia to make you a little smarter. :)

When Fall starts here, we are able to go up to Apple Hill and visit lots of apple orchards. So fun and the apples are wonderful! While there recently, I got a box of Granny Smith apples. I had to use them in some great recipes.

When I saw this particular recipe, I KNEW I had to make it for my husband. My instincts were right - this recipe is great! I loved it; my husband loved it; my Dad loved it; and it was a big hit at my church potluck! Thank you to my Pillsbury calendar! :) We're going to have this pie for Thanksgiving so I'm linking it up to Tried and True Thanksgiving Recipes Week at What's Cooking At My House!  And I'm linking it up to the Love The Pie party happening over at Tidy Mom - yum!

Sour Cream-Apple Pie

CRUST
1 refrigerated pie crust, softened or
1 frozen pie crust or
1 homemade pie crust *

FILLING
1 1/4 cups sour cream
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons vanilla
1 egg
6 cups 1/4-inch slices peeled baking apples

TOPPING
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1/4 cup packed light brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
Dash salt
3 tablespoons cold butter

1. Heat oven to 400 degrees F. Prepare pie crust as directed. In large bowl, beat sour cream, granulated sugar, flour, salt, vanilla and egg with wire whisk until well blended; stir in apples. Pour into crust-lined pie plate.

2. Bake 15 minutes. Reduce oven temperature to 350 degrees F; bake 30 minutes longer.

3. Meanwhile, in medium bowl, mix all topping ingredients except butter. With pastry blender or fork, cut in butter until mixture looks like coarse crumbs; refrigerate until ready to use.

4. Sprinkle topping over pie. Bake 20-25 minutes longer or until topping is golden brown. Cool completely on rack, about 2 hours. Cover and refrigerate any remaining pie.

* Please don't tell Donna from Way More Homemade that I used a frozen Marie Callender's pie crust instead of making my own!! :)

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Since I still had plenty of apples left, I decided to try making homemade applesauce. I tried this recipe from A Year of Slow Cooking. It turned out great! I just used less lemon juice and more sugar to make up for my very tart Granny Smith apples. It was so easy to do and yummy!

And now...apple-themed giveaway anyone??

This giveaway is for a small apple teapot and 2 kitchen towels.

Enter the giveaway by leaving a comment on this post! That's it! The giveaway will stay open through 10pm PST on Sunday 10/18 and the winner will be randomly chosen from the comments.

Now it's time for you to link up your apple posts and recipes so we can all enjoy the apple goodness! You can link up a new or old post about apples, but please do include a link back to this post so everybody can enjoy the Fall Fruits Festival! If you don't have a blog, feel free to share apple links and recipes in the comments.

Check back through the day to see all the apple posts linking up! I hope you'll come back tomorrow - it's Day 4 and it's about Cranberries! So glad you stopped by - I hope to see you again!

Have a wonderful Wednesday friends!

I'm linking this up for Works-For-Me Wednesday at We Are THAT Family because great apple recipes and giveaways are workin' for me!

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