shelf life of an apple pie?

[grasswire]

My family member who owns an espresso shop/cafe up the street and I have been talking about having me come in one afternoon a week to bake and take some of that load off him.

My most requested dessert is green apple pie. Ingredients are just peeled sliced green apples, sugar, a bit of cinnamon, a pat of butter, and the crust (Crisco, a bit of milk, salt, flour, water).

What do you think the shelf life is for a slice of pie? In our house, an apple pie doesn't last long enough for us to ask that question.

And another question. Does anyone have a superior recipe for a yellow cake that is very similar to what you would get from a boxed cake mix? People love the sherry cake recipe I've used for years, but it starts with a yellow cake mix and a box of pudding mix. I'd like to work it out from scratch with same results. Suggestions welcome.

[Tab]

1. Not sure about apple pie

but I can assure you that in my house, a Key Lime Pie is lucky if it makes it through the evening.

[hippywife]

2. It's not very long.

Just a couple of days really, if it's not refrigerated. I used to work in a restaurant where the main draw was the pie, many different varieties. They were all dated and the double crust pies were disposed of the evening of the second day.

[grasswire]

3. were the fruit pies there refrigerated?

Or just covered?

I don't expect an apple pie to sit without selling for a day, but we're trying to calculate the costs if some of it has to be thrown out on the third day, per health regulations.

[hippywife]

4. No, they weren't refrigerated.

There may be some regulation how long you can serve it. I'm not sure. You'll have to check with the health department on that.

Refrigerating a double crust pie seems to degrade the quality of the crust.

[grasswire]

6. yeah, I agree

The rule here is that on the third day, baked goods must go. I honestly don't think that a pie will last more than a day, but we're just working the details to forecast profit.

[hippywife]

7. It's always good

to try to project every possibility. Hope it works into a profitable venture for both of you.

[kestrel91316]

5. In my sister's household, with the two college kids, a pie is gone in an evening.

At Christmas she makes my niece a big layer cake (only cake of the year, I think) with coconut icing and that thing is gone in a little over 24 hours. :wow:

The boys (BIL and nephew) are string beans with gargantuan appetites.....my sis and I, not so much string beans, lol.

Oh, the point of my post, lol:
By myself I keep a pie around for several days, but that's refrigerated and covered. Two days at room temp is fine, AFAIK. Mold can't grow that fast. Bacteria got killed by the baking.