Cheater Mincemeat Pie Recipe (2024)

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Making mincemeat pie really doesn’t get easier than this! Adding fresh apples and your choice of nuts to prepare mincemeat makes for an easy and delicious pie that is quick to make and perfect for the holidays.

Why not make your own Pie Crust for this recipe? Or learn how to make a Chess Pie instead?

Cheater Mincemeat Pie Recipe

Mincemeat is definitely one of those things that people don’t feel comfortable experimenting with. While most people will feel more comfortable buying their mincemeat pies directly from the store, you can easily make your own with all sorts of delicious fillings.

This recipe combines fruit, sugar, nuts, and a healthy amount of rum with a typical mincemeat pie filling to make a sweet, sticky, and amazingly delicious mincemeat pie.

Feel free to decorate your pie as you see fit, maybe with some stylish crimping, but just keep in mind that it is so good, you will probably break right through any attractive patterns without even noticing them.

Cheater Mincemeat Pie Recipe Ingredients

Make sure you look at the recipe card at the very bottom for the exact amounts so that you know exactly what to buy for this recipe.

Mincemeat Filling

• Prepared mincemeat pie filling

• Pecans or walnuts

• Apples, peeled, cored, and chopped into small pieces

• Packed brown sugar

• Rum

• Lemon zest

• Orange zest

• Pie crust

How To Make Cheater Mincemeat Pie Recipe

• Combine all of the ingredients for the filling together in a medium-sized bowl

• Cover and refrigerate overnight

• Take the filling out, give it a big stir and let it come to room temperature

• Prepare the pie pastry crusts and place one in the bottom of a 9-inch pie plate

• Stir the filling one more time, and pour it into a pie shell

• Top it with the second pie crust, crimp the edges, and cut slits into the top

• Bake at 425 Fahrenheit for 40 minutes, or until the filling starts to bubble

• Once cooked, remove and cool on a rack, serve warm or cold as desired

How To Stop Your Mincemeat Pie Crust Burning In The Oven

This pie recipe spends quite a bit of time in the oven, so it definitely has a tendency to get a little bit overcooked if you aren’t careful.

To avoid accidentally burning the edges of your pie crust, keep an eye on it throughout its bake time.

If, after the first 20 minutes, you start to notice the pie crust browning a lot faster than the filling, then make sure to tend it with foil.

Just take a piece of aluminum foil and drape it loosely over the pie crust. This will stop too much direct heat from hitting the pie crust, helping to prevent it from accidentally burning.

How To Easily Style Your Pie Crust

Trying to crimp the edges of a pie crust is easily the hardest part of making a good pie. Those attractive crenulations seem basically impossible to achieve, right?

For those baking at home, you have two basic methods you can use to get perfect crimping every time: two fingers or a pair of forks.

For your fingers, you take your first finger and the thumb of one hand and press them gently together with a very slight gap in-between them, like you are almost pinching the dough.

Then, lightly press one part of the pie crust and, using the index finger of your other hand, press together the pie dough in-between your finger and thumb.

Do this all the way around your pie to get a decent crimp that might not look perfect but will look amazing once it has finished baking.

The fork method is even easier; place the tines of one fork against the pie crust lip, with the back resting into the pastry, and slot the other fork’s tines of the first.

Pushing gently, the pie crust should press into itself, forming a gentle seal and crimping beautifully. Just make sure not to press too hard and accidentally breakthrough and shred the pie crust!

Looking for more delicious Pie recipes? Try these out:

• How to Blind Bake a Pie Crust

• Impossible Pumpkin Pie

• Raisin Pie Recipe