This American Flag pie honors: the country, the stars and stripes and the independence.

Ingredients

5 pie crusts (4 pie crusts – for bottom crust and 1 pie crust for stars and stripes)

1/4 cup fine sugar

2 – 13 x 18 large sheet pans

1 ruler

parchment paper

strawberry filling:

2 quarts (8 cups) 4 – 16 oz boxes fresh strawberries, hulled and quartered

1/2 cup sugar

4 teaspoons tapioca flour

1/8 teaspoon salt

1 tablespoon lemon juice

1 teaspoon lemon zest

blueberry filling:

2 cups (1 pint) fresh blueberries (or frozen blueberries)

2 tablespoons sugar

1 teaspoon tapioca flour

1 1/2 teaspoons lemon juice

1 teaspoon lemon zest

Directions

Prepare sheet pans: lightly spray one sheet pan coconut nonstick spray, line the other with parchment paper.

Preheat the oven to 425 degrees.

Rinse the blueberries, and mix all the blueberry filling ingredients in a bowl, set aside. Rinse the strawberries and pull stems using a straw, push from the bottom of the strawberry to pop the stem off the top. Cut all strawberries in half and mix with all the ingredients, set aside. Cut the banana.

Prepare the bottom crust: On a cutting board, roll out pie crusts, lay them on the sprayed sheet pan and piece together all four of the pie crusts to form one bottom crust. Use a knife or pizza wheel to cut pieces and patch together a full crust gently pressing together and up the sides of the pan. Use a fork to poke small holes all over the bottom crust of the sheet pan, this helps the crust lay flat during the pre-bake.  Sprinkle fine sugar on the bottom crust.

If possible, re-chill your pie crusts in the fridge prior to baking on the sheet pans for an hour.  Large sheet pans don’t fit in my fridge, so I set the sheet pans on ice packs to keep them as cold as possible. Pie crust bakes properly when very chilled going into a hot oven!

On the bottom pie crust, spread blueberry filling into the upper left corner in a small rectangle of the baked pie crust. Next, add the strawberry filling onto the pie.

Bake at 425 for 25-30 minutes, until the berries are bubbling.

Remove pie from oven, and arrange the blueberries, the strawberries and bananas at the bottom of the pie.