For some reason I missed this post until this morning when I said to myself "I need a recipe for some different apple pie" - and I scrolled down as if my hand was being guided by some recipe angel!! I'm going to try this one today as I'm also going to make some potato soup for dinner. DH brought home a bag of humongous baking potatoes from Sam's and I need to use them.

rita -- that sounds wonderful -- there is nothing like soup and pie for dinner in the fall and winter!

Why bother bake the pie if you aren't going to serve it with whipped cream?

Because homemade vanilla ice cream is by far the preferred choice--warm pie, and cold ice cream. yum!

The pie looks good. I like a good amount of cinnamon in mine.

"Because homemade vanilla ice cream is by far the preferred choice--warm pie, and cold ice cream. yum!"

Not if you can take or leave ice cream....even homemade ice cream :-) I much prefer whipped cream over ice cream and if ice cream was all that was offered, would skip it. But I will take whipped cream on just about any dessert any time!!

I won't even try to argue with someone that does not like ice cream. ;)

I like it.....just not very often and not nearly as much as whipped cream :-) Much too sweet to add to an already sweet dessert.

FWIW, I can't eat even a bite of pecan pie unless that tooth shattering sweetness is cut by whipped cream :-)

Gardengal I'm with you on the whipped cream. I love the stuff. I have been known to whip up some cream just to dip a cookie in. I really love the crispy edge of pie crust dipped in whipped cream. Thats why I always bake my pie crust scraps...just to dip in whipped cream. Lol.

Sorry I can't decide between a good vanilla ice cream and whipped cream, so I'll just have both, thank you. Now, Mama - you just lit up my brain-cells big-time - pie scraps with whipped cream??!!! That's genius!!! OMG you could market that and make billions! Especially in states like CA and CO where everyone has the munchies?? Sign me up for the ground-breaking investment on that, surely I could kick in enough for a couple sacks of flour, if nothing else.

But the pie already has cream in it! Does it need cream on top as well?

Ritaweeda, LOL! Ricky will be the authority--surely not I--but I'd think just pie scraps and whipped cream wouldn't quite do for the munchies. I think it has to be bacon and cheddar melt on cinnamon maple pie scraps with whipped cream, or something like that. :)

gardengal, that is one of the reasons I make my own ice cream--the commercial ones are too sweet. I even altered the recipe I use, and cut the sugar way back from the amount listed.

You see? - The options are endless! Sweet ones with cinnamon, maple, you name it, like you suggested above, even chocolate! And savory ones with endless varieties of flavors - like Mexican or Italian - little bite-size empanadas!

*RAISES HAND*

I'll take some pie with MY whipped cream, please.

Wait, how much shortening with how much flour for the crust ... oh, I'll just use lars' crust

Lars' crust

1 cup butter
1 cup cottage cheese
2 cups flour

Combine butter and cottage cheese with a mixer until well combined. Stir in flour until just mixed and divide in half.

↑↑↑top with mounds of whipped cream.

↑↑↑toss at someone who needs taking down a peg, but make sure to twist before you let go to make sure it sticks (remove from pan first!).