OK, so I was thinking of doing this for my wedding (and am now kicking myself that I didn't), but here's my big question: how LONG can you keep these pies frozen? Is there an amount of time after which they lose significant quality? I was afraid that baking apple pies in the fall for a June wedding was a recipe for bland, freezer-burnt dessert... Julia, the longer they're frozen, yes, they'll very gradually degrade. The question is - how much, how fast, and how attuned would your guests be to slight changes in texture? They'd do better in a chest freezer for sure, one that doesn't self-defrost. And I have a friend who bakes pies, then freezes them for more than a year, and then re-bakes them frozen, and she says they're fine. I don't think I'd risk it all on a wedding, but it would be a good experiment sometime... PJH

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