Apple and blackberry pie

Impress with a beautiful lattice blackberry and apple pie

There is nothing like a pie with a delicious crust and a beautiful lattice top. Smell the freshly baked bubbly filling with notes of homemade pastry, fruit, and berries wafting through the air. With the lattice top, it looks impressive and tastes fantastic, too. Using fresh apples and a myriad of blackberries combined with orange and lemon zest, you get a zingy, fresh, and sweet pie. Balance the freshness of the filling by serving it with sweet vanilla ice cream or whipped cream.

Are you in the mood for other fruity and freshly baked desserts? Try our carrot cake with orange buttercream frosting or banana walnut bread. Or, to start the morning with fruits and berries, try breakfast muffins with rhubarb and raspberry.

How to make an easy lattice pie top

Get the perfect pie look with the right lattice pattern. When you have your cut-out pastry strips, place half of them evenly spaced on the pie filling, using the longer strips in the middle. Then, fold every other strip back so they are still attached to the pie but almost falling off. Then, place one strip – in the right length – over the remaining strips, close to the bent-back strips. Fold these strips back over the perpendicular strip.

Fold the other strips back, the ones that were not back before, and place a new strip over the remaining ones. Fold the strips back over this new strip and see how the pattern starts to emerge. Continue until you are out of strips. And there you go, a pie top that is sure to impress.

Sweet and tart apples and blackberries

Experience the harmonious blend of sweet and tart in our blackberry and apple pie. Apples combine their delicate balance of sweetness and tartness with the vibrant blackberries ranging from sweet to tangy. As the pie bakes, the fruits meld together, their juices forming a luscious filling encased in an irresistibly flaky crust.

Serve with whipped cream or vanilla ice cream

This blackberry apple pie is perfect for a festive gathering or as the highlight of a family meal. Serve it warm, with the filling bubbling under the lattice crust. Let the pie shine with a scoop of vanilla ice cream or a generous dollop of whipped cream. The coolness of the ice cream is thoroughly delicious with the warm pie, while the whipped cream adds a layer of indulgence. Both offer pleasant contrasts for the warm, luscious filling and the white ice cream or whipped cream looks stunning against the dark purple and red filling.

Change the look of your pie

Create impressive patterns with another top crust instead of the lattice one. Make a larger portion of the pastry recipe and save half of the pastry for the top. Roll it out until big enough to cover the pie and over the edges, and decorate the top. Make small holes or incisions for the steam to come out, for example, by making carvings and removing a small piece of pastry here and there to form stars and circles. Or, simply, make small, symmetrical cuts in the crust.

Impress your guests with individual pies. Instead of one big pie, make small, one-serve portions. Follow the recipe, but use several smaller tins. Just remember to keep an eye on them when baking, as the smaller tins might shorten the cooking time. You can also keep the lattice pattern but cut out the dough in different shapes and place them on top like small pieces of art – for example, cut-out hearts, leaves, or stars.