Rosh Hashanah Apple Honey Pie

I came up with my own apple pie recipe for Rosh & HAD to add honey :)))

This pie recipe was inspired by my mom & my friend Jessie :) 

My mom taught me how to bake by baking for me :) 

& Jessie, spent my 1st Rosh Hashanah with me! At a restaurant in Bangkok, Jessie found us apples and honey :) 

This recipe is EZ!!!

Here is what you will need:

-Pot with lid

-Pyrex glass pie dish

-Wooden spoon

-Half a stick of butter

-1 cup of sugar

-1 bag of Trader Joe's sliced organic apples

-Cinnamon

-Honey

-2 Pie Crusts Trader Joe's 

Begin! 

Cut off half a stick of butter and slice it in smaller slivers. Place a couple of pieces of butter in the bottom of a pot on high flame.

Let the butter melt. 

Then add 1/2 cup of sugar. 

Mix the sugar around letting the butter get soaked up. Slowly start adding more slices of butter. Add the bag of sliced apples to the sugar mixture. Fold the apples into the caramel. Add the remainder of the butter. Continue to fold the apples into the sugar mixture. Once all of the butter has melted, lower the heat & let the apples cook. Stir the apple mixture occasionally. Once the apples look glazed but not fully cooked place the lid on the pot. 

Unroll the pie crusts. 

Use one of the 2 crusts to line the Pyrex pie. Take pieces of the cracked pie crust and piece it together on the bottom of the Pyrex. Join together the pieces to create a pie liner. 

Check on the apples. Once they look a little more mushy-stir again. Add 1/2 cup of sugar & sprinkle cinnamon to cover the entire pot of apples. Fold the apples into the new sugar mixture. Cover the pan again with a lid. 

Using a rolling pin, flatten the leftover pie crust. With a cookie cutter, cut out desired shapes in the crust. Keep cutting out the shapes until all of the dough has been used. To keep from the cut outs getting smooshed, lay them on the wax paper provided in the pie crust box. 

Once the apples are cooked and the sauce is more of a syrup, it is time to add the mixture to the pie crust. 

Use the wooden spoon to spoon out all of the contents of the pot into the Pyrex. Be sure to scrape the sides and get all of the remnants of the apple mixture into the Pyrex.  

Now, coat the bottom of the pot in honey. The heat of the pot will help to mix the contents together & keep the honey from attaching to the sides. Use the wooden spoon to mix honey contents and pour this on the top of the apple mixture in the Pyrex. 

Use a fork to imprint the top of the inside of the pie crust. This creates the quintessential pie crust design. Begin to add all of the pie crust cut outs along the top of the apple mixture. Attach the dough cut outs along the side of the Pyrex and then across the center of the apples. Being sure to cover the entire apple mixture. Sprinkle sugar crystals to the top of the pie crust. 

400* degrees cook the pie for 30-40minutes. Checking on the crust. Once it gets golden brown, it's time to take the pie out! 

Let the pie cool :))))

Today, hope you have a great Jewish New Year!!! Eating apples dipped in honey is symbolic of evoking a "Sweet New Year." 

Xoxo

PS: We ate the pie to fast that I didn't get a chance to take a picture ;)