40 apple pie filling recipes

Brown sugar apple pie thickened with tapioca and spiced with cinnamon and nutmeg. Granny Smith apples and lemon juice give it a sharp, bright filling.

Apple sour cream pie with Granny Smith apples and golden raisins in a tangy custard filling under a lattice crust. A creamy twist on classic apple pie where the sour cream adds richness and a slight tang.

Caramel apple pecan pie with chopped caramel candies melted into the filling alongside McIntosh apples and toasted pecans. Best served warm.

French apple pie with a thick applesauce and honey filling topped with concentric rings of sliced Granny Smith apples and a glossy apricot glaze. An elegant, low-fat tart-style pie.

Easy cranberry apple pie with a bright, tart-sweet filling of fresh cranberries and apples, simmered with orange juice and warm spice until glossy. A festive holiday pie that slices clean.

A show stopper of an apple custard pie recipe with tender apple halves baked in a luscious, creamy vanilla custard filling.

Mini apple pies use refrigerated biscuit dough as a fast pastry shortcut. Each rolled biscuit wraps a tablespoon of cinnamon-sugar apple-raisin filling and bakes in muffin cups. Ten warm hand pies in 15 minutes.

Easy Spam triangles: hand-pie pockets filled with Spam, smoky Gouda, diced apple, and onion dip in flaky pie pastry. Retro party appetizer with surprising flavor.

French apple pie with vanilla custard filling, butter-sauteed Granny Smith apples, apricot preserves glaze, and a golden lattice crust. A bakery-level showpiece.

Crispy phyllo strudel filled with spiced apples and sweet pineapple, naturally sweetened with honey. This easy apple-pineapple dessert is lighter than traditional pie.

Apple pie with a custard twist: cornstarch-thickened cream and egg coat the spiced apples, baking into a smooth, custardy filling under a sparkling cinnamon-sugar crust.

Traditional green tomato mincemeat with suet, raisins, apples, oranges, and warming spices simmered low for hours. A homestead recipe for filling pies, tarts, and turnovers from the late-season garden haul.

Healthy apple pie with a crushed Grape Nuts cereal base and a no-sugar-added filling sweetened with apple juice concentrate. Coriander and cinnamon spice six thinly sliced apples for a low-fat dessert.

Double crust apple pie pre-cooks the apple filling on the stovetop before baking. This smart technique prevents soggy bottom crust and delivers tender, perfectly shaped apple slices under a flaky sour cream dough.

French-style apple pie with sauteed tart apples in a single pastry shell, layered with a cooked vanilla custard filling and finished with an apricot preserve glaze on the crust.

Home-canned peach pie filling spiced with cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg, with apple and golden raisins for body. Four pints from one canning session means peach pie any month of the year.