Your thought of adding some uncooked apple slices into the filling is fantastic. It'll help your pie pop with fresh flavor and also give it some crunch. Add about 1 apple, thinly sliced to the pre-cooked filling. You can also consider blind-baking the bottom of your crust so that you can reduce the overall bake time. The only catch here is that you'll want to top the pie with something like streusel topping (rather than adding a top crust, which will need to bake for the full amount of time). In the end, we have faith your apple pie will be fantastic, even if the filling is slightly soft — it's homemade apple pie so by default it's delicious! Kye@KAF

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