My girlfriends and I had lunch at a local restaurant a couple of weeks before Thanksgiving, and we had a cranberry apple streusel pie that we all vowed to recreate for our individual Thanksgiving separations.

In comes, this recipe. The only tweaks I made were:

1) I made my own pie crust- I used Alton Brown’s food processor recipe. I would probably be stingier with the water next time, but everyone raved about the taste and the texture.

2) I used a mandoline to slice the apples after they were peeled. A corer would have served me well here, but my method worked. I used 1/3 gala apples, and 2/3 green granny smith. Once I had uniform slices, I laid them carefully in the pie pan in an even layer, with a slight bump in the middle.

3) I didn’t measure the fresh cranberries I used, but I squeezed as many on top of the apples as I possibly could, and then finished with the streusel topping.

An all around fantastic recipe! Thanks so much!