Sometimes, a simple pie is all that’s needed to round out Easter lunch or a spring supper… or just to enjoy all by itself. Not a plum fan? You can sub other fruits like summer peaches with the same tasty outcome!
Course Dessert, Pie, Sweet Treats
Cuisine American, Southern Desserts
Keyword cream pie, easy pie, hushpuppies, plums
Author Wendy Perry
Ingredients
½teaspoon apple pie spice
½teaspoonground ginger
1tablespoonsugar
19"pie crust,unbaked
3tablespoonscold butter
4cupsplums,pitted and thinly sliced (about 6 plums)
⅔cupsugar
2tablespoonsflour
1cupheavy cream
Instructions
Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
Combine spices with 1 tablespoon of sugar. Dust bottom of crust with 1 teaspoon of sugar-spice mix, pressing into soft dough.
Grate cold butter over spiced crust. Cover with plums.
Add remaining spice mix to ⅔ cup sugar, flour and cream. Whisk to blend well.
Pour over plums and bake on center rack about 35–40 minutes, until center is set. Cool before serving.
Notes
Note: If crust edge gets browned before pie is set, cover pie with foil to finish baking.