In my family, this tends to be used as a birthday cake but any occasion is reason enough to try it. Typically we do not make it using the full amount of red food coloring. If you choose to cut back on the red food coloring you will need to add water for the amount of red food coloring you don’t use (so if you use one ounce of coloring you will still need to add one ounce of water).
Ok, so this one is self explanatory but my grandmother used to makes this on a semi-frequent basis and I can get hungry for it at times. Very easy to make and it’s not hard to try to remember the ingredients.
I made this for my brother’s birthday and added a special ingredient of the seeds from one vanilla bean. While they are expensive I recommend buying in bulk if you have the opportunity. Then once you scrape the bean throw the pod in a Mason jar and fill with sugar to make your own vanilla sugar. This works very well and re-flavors the sugar when you keep adding new sugar to the jar. Plus you can give it as a gift.
Call me un-American if you want, but apple pie just isn’t on the top of my list of favorite pies. But, since I was asked to make one for a retirement party I am going to include the recipe for you to enjoy. I prefer to use a mix of apples instead of just using one kind. I only used two in this recipe, Jonagold and Golden Delicious, and because they were LARGE apples I actually got two 9-inch double crust pies and one 9-inch single crust pie out of this.
