Deliciously & heathy pie recipes for your parties!

I made these delicious pies for a holiday party and they were a hit! So I thought I'd share. I made it easy by using store-bought crust; you can even find frozen gluten-free crusts. I got this walnut idea from my backpacking trip to Stehekin. The Stehekin Valley Ranch had them on hand and it was absolutely delicious. And like always, I made it a healthy version of it.
 
Walnut Maple Pie

Ingredients:
1 frozen pie sheell
2 cups of roughly chopped walnuts
2 large eggs, beaten
1 cup of maple syrup
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 tablespoon melted butter
2 tablespoon of arrow root flour (or tapioca flour)
1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
1/8 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg

Instructions:
1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F
2. In a large bowl, mix together the beaten eggs, maple syrup, vanilla extract, and melted butter. Sprinkle in the arrow root flour, salt, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Whisk until smooth.
3. Spread chopped walnut over the bottom of pie shell. Pour the base over the walnuts in the pie shell.
4. Place the pie in the preheated oven on the middle rack. Place a cookie sheet on the rack underneath to catch any drippings from the pie crust. 
5. Bake for 40-45 minutes. After 20 minutes, put foil around pie edges to keep them from burning.

Cool completely before serving and enjoy. I made my pie a day ahead of the event to ensure it had time to settle.


Apple Pie
(I only had 4 large fuji apples and every recipe I looked at asked for Granny Smith, which meant I didn't need to use as much sweetener!)

Ingredients:
2 frozen pie crusts for a 9 inch pie 
4 large peeled and sliced fuji apples
1/2 cup of brown sugar (you can use date syrup instead)
1 teaspoon of cinnamon
2 tablespoon of tapioca flour
1/4 teaspoon of nutmeg
1 tablespoons of lemon juice and half of the zest.
1 large egg, beaten
1 tablespoons of brown sugar (you can use coconut sugar instead)

Instructions:
1. Preheat oven to 400 degree Fahrenheit.
2. Defrost the pie crust and rollover bottom of pie sheet.
3. In a large bowl, mix sliced apples, coconut sugar, cinnamon, tapioca flour, nutmeg and lemon juice and mix until coated. Place into the pie crust.
4. Roll the top crust over the pie and press the dough from the edges of the pie together to seal and fold together. Use a knife and make slits into the pie crust to allow the steam to vent.
5. Brush the top of the pie and sprinkle brown sugar on top. Cover the edge with foil to keep from burning.
6. Bake at 400 degrees F for 25 minutes.
7. Turn down to 375 and remove the foil from edges and bake for an additional 30-35 minutes. Top will be brown and bubbly.

Cool for 3 hours and enjoy. I made my pie a day ahead of the event to ensure it had time to settle.

used as a reference:
https://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/walnut_maple_pie/?print
https://littlespoonfarm.com/apple-pie-recipe/#recipe