Longaberger's All-American Pie

Don't you love this fun, patriotic look?  It's quick and easy to complete, and your friends and family will enjoy it this summer.  I wish the picture better showed my patriotic Longaberger Grandma Bonnie's Pie Plate (you can barely see the tops of some of the navy stars inside the rim), but any Longaberger Pie Plate will work perfectly.  

This All-American Pie was featured in Longaberger's Collector's Club Connection (May 2016), and as the writer says, "It allows you to express your patriotism in a fun and tasty way."  Kids and grandkids might enjoy helping put this pie together for a family celebration.  As you'll see, I used the easy version of everything, and it turned out fine with no stress. 

Line a pie plate with your favorite crust--I used Pillsbury refrigerated crusts.  Fill with two cans of cherry pie filling (I used Lucky Leaf Premium Filling in 21-ounce cans and got many compliments), trying to keep it away from the top left one-fourth as much as possible. Add blueberry pie filling (more Lucky Leaf, for me) to fill in the blue field in the top left corner.  You won't use the entire can.  The original instructions said to spread the cherry filling evenly everywhere and then cover with a thin layer of blueberry on the upper left, but I didn't do that.  As thick as this pie filling is, I was able to add the two fillings in their own places and smooth it together easily. 

Cut another crust into stars and stripes.  I have a Pampered Chef "Creative Cutters Set" that has 8 small, very-useful shapes, and I used the especially-handy star shape here. I used a pizza cutter to cut the stripes and then assembled them on the pie to look like Old Glory.  I baked the pie for 45-50 minutes at 350 degrees and had to broil it for a brief moment at the end (watch it closely!) to lightly brown my stars and stripes.

Especially delicious served warm with vanilla ice cream, this is a great pie!  I'm sure it's good cold, too, if there is any left by then.

Longaberger's Collector's Club has long featured special products, mostly baskets, that were unique examples of American craft. For an annual membership fee, members had the opportunity to purchase those products and received a special publication too. The Collector's Club Connection was a magazine for Club members that in recent years had become an online magazine.  This was especially fun because the stories could be very timely.  The photography and ideas were always fun and fresh.  Michael Kennedy has been a wonderful and very creative director of Longaberger's Collectors Club, known more recently as The Club.

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