Description
Berry Slab Pie is the perfect tasty dessert recipe for your Fourth of July celebrations (or anytime of year!) Blueberries, strawberries, and raspberries, are baked up in a golden pie crust in this old-fashioned recipe you’ll love!
Ingredients
Scale
- 3 store-bought pie crusts, unbaked and thawed
- 2 pints blueberries
- 2 pints raspberries
- 2 pounds strawberries
- 6 tablespoons cornstarch
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into small cubes
- 1 egg
- 1 tablespoon water
Instructions
Prepare the crust:
- Set pie crusts on the counter to allow to come to room temperature.
- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees and lightly flour your work surface.
- Lay two pie crusts together on the surface together and roll out to fit your pan.
- Gently roll the dough around your rolling pin and transfer to the pan.
- Trim the edges of the dough and crimp the edges around the edge of the pan.
- Pierce the bottom and sides of the dough with a fork.
- Place foil or parchment paper over the dough and lay pie weights (or dried beans) on top to weigh it down.
- Bake for 10 minutes.
- Remove weight and foil/parchment paper and bake an additional 5-7 minutes.Let the crust cool.
Prepare the Berry Filling:
- While the crust is cooling wash and dry all the berries. Hull and dice the strawberries and place all berries in a large bowl.
- Add lemon juice, cornstarch, sugar, and salt to the berries and stir to mix. Set aside.
Assemble the Slab Pie:
- Cut the remaining pie crust into strips for the lattice and stars (or any other shape) if you desire.
- Spread the berry mixture over the bottom crust.
- Add cubed butter over the berries.
- Top the berries with the lattice and/or shapes of pie dough.
- Mix egg and water together to make an egg wash. Brush egg wash over the pastry.
- Bake for 50 minutes or until crust is golden brown and berry filling is bubbling.
- Cool 2 hours before serving.
Notes
remove any white portions of the interior of the strawberries to maximize flavor, this portion is not sweet
if any portion of the crust starts to brown carefully cover it with foil for the remainder of the baking time
you can easily substitute homemade pie crust, you will need 3 pies worth total, two for the bottom crust and one for the top
- Prep Time: 30 minutes
- Cook Time: 65 minutes
- Category: dessert
- Method: baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size:
- Calories: 310
- Sugar: 16.7 g
- Sodium: 220.6 mg
- Fat: 13.2 g
- Carbohydrates: 47.2 g
- Fiber: 5.1 g
- Protein: 2.7 g
- Cholesterol: 15.4 mg