Bacon Apple Pie

Nope, that’s not a typo. We really do have a delicious Bacon Apple Pie recipe for you to try at home. It features a crispy bacon lattice top rather than a traditional pie dough lattice. The result—a sweet and salty miracle!

This recipe is featured in our Loveless Cafe Cookbook!

Servings: 8

Pie Crust

Ingredients

• 2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
• ½ cup confectioners’ sugar
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• ½ teaspoon salt
• ¾ cup unsalted butter, cold and cut into small cubes
• 2 egg yolks
• 2 tablespoons milk, cold

Directions

1. Place flour, confectioners’ sugar, baking powder, and salt in a food processor and pulse briefly to mix.
2. Add butter and pulse until it is cut in and mixture resembles coarse meal.
3. Add egg yolks and milk and process just until dough is smooth and evenly moistened. Do not process until dough forms a ball or it will be tough.
4. Remove dough from processor, divide in half, and press each half into a ball.
5. Flatten into two disks, wrap well, and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes before using.

Pie Filling & Bacon Lattice

Ingredients

• 1 (9-inch) pie crust, unbaked
• ¾ cup light brown sugar, packed
• 2 tablespoons corn starch
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• ½ teaspoon nutmeg
• ½ teaspoon ground cardamom
• ¼ teaspoon ground cloves
• ½ teaspoon lemon zest
• 6 cups Granny Smith apples, peeled and sliced (about 4 to 5 apples)
• 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
• 8 to 12 slices Loveless Cafe Applewood Smoked Country Bacon, uncooked

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Press pie crust into a 9-inch pie plate and set aside.
3. In a large bowl, rub brown sugar, corn starch, cinnamon, nutmeg, cardamom, cloves, and lemon zest together with fingertips until blended.
4. Add apples to bowl and toss to coat.
5. Fill pie crust with apple slices, including any sugar and juices that have accumulated in the bowl.
6. Weave uncooked bacon over top of pie filling, starting from the center and working your way out to the edges (For a lattice topping you should have an over-under pattern with 4 to 6 pieces going vertically and 4 to 6 pieces going horizontally).
7. Trim bacon slices to the edge of crust with scissors.
8. Bake on middle rack, checking after 30 minutes to make sure bacon does not burn. If bacon is browning too much, cover with foil.
9. After 1 hour, increase oven temperature to 400 degrees. Continue baking for 15 to 25 minutes until bacon is golden brown and crisp.
10. Let pie cool for 1 hour before serving.