Boysenberry Pie Recipe

I love this boysenberry pie recipe! It’s a sweet, tart and delicious berry pie with a buttery crust on top and on bottom. This berry pie has it’s own personality apart from other berry pies. Boysenberries taste like a combination of a raspberry, blueberry and blackberry and the flavor is uniquely boysenberry.

If you’ve ever been to Knott’s Berry Farm amusement park in California then chances are you’ve had boysenberry flavored goodies. Boysenberries were created in California on a berry farm that is now Knotts berry farm amusement park. If you want to know the history there then I suggest looking it up, it’s pretty interesting. For the intents and purposes of this post, I’m not going to go into that.

We bought a pass to the amusement park this year because we were in southern California a few times for work and vacation. while at the park, they have boysenberry juice on tap and we always want to take some home with us when we leave so we buy the juice concentration at their gift shop.

They also have all kinds of goodies at the park that feature the delicious berry and do a food tasting event during the spring and summer with sweet and savory dishes. This year after going we ordered some canned a boysenberries online so we could make some yummy goodies of our own.

For this pie, you can use homemade or store bought pie crust. I use both depending on my level of effort I want to put into my pies. Store bought is so easy and tastes great but homemade is king when it comes to buttery goodness. My pie crust recipe is HERE.

Here’s how you make this boysenberry pie recipe: (Printable recipe card below)

Makes one standard sized pie

• 2 pie crusts
• 2 ~15 ounce cans boysenberries in light syrup
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 lemon – zested
• 2 tablespoons lemon juice
• 3 1/2 tablespoons cornstarch

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 375 F.
2. In a sauce pan, add boysenberries and syrup, sugar, lemon zest, lemon juice and cornstarch then bring mixture to a boil and simmer until the mixture starts to thicken.
3. Roll out pie crusts, one for the bottom of the pan and one for the top. Line pie tin with the bottom crust and set the top crust aside.
4. Pour boysenberry mixture into the pie crust then top with the other pie crust.
5. Cut 3-4 slits in the crust to work as a vent during baking.
6. Bake for ~55 minutes or until the crust is golden.
7. Cool completely and then enjoy.

Here are a few other recipes you may also be interested in:

Easy Boysenberry Turnovers
Raspberry Cheesecake Cookies
Strawberry Rhubarb Cobbler

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Boysenberry Pie Recipe

This boysenberry pie is a sweet, tart and delicious berry pie with a buttery crust on top and on bottom.

Prep Time20 minutes mins

Cook Time55 minutes mins

Course: Dessert, Pie

Cuisine: Dessert, Pie

Keyword: Blackberry, boysenberry, Christmas, Dessert, pie, Thanksgiving

Servings: 1 standard pie

Ingredients

• 2 pie crusts
• 2 ~15 ounce cans boysenberries in light syrup
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 lemon – zested
• 2 tablespoons lemon juice
• 3 1/2 tablespoons cornstarch

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 375 F.
• In a sauce pan, add boysenberries and syrup, sugar, lemon zest, lemon juice and cornstarch then bring mixture to a boil and simmer until the mixture starts to thicken.
• Roll out pie crusts, one for the bottom of the pan and one for the top. Line pie tin with the bottom crust and set the top crust aside.
• Pour boysenberry mixture into the pie crust then top with the other pie crust.
• Cut 3-4 slits in the crust to work as a vent during baking.
• Bake for ~55 minutes or until the crust is golden.
• Cool completely and then enjoy.