Caramel Cream Apple Crunch Pie
- Ready In:
- 50mins
- Ingredients:
- 16
- Serves:
-
8
ingredients
- 1 unbaked pie shell (9 or 10 inch)
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CRUMB TOPPING
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1⁄2 cup brown sugar
- 1⁄2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1⁄2 cup finely crushed gingersnap cookie
- 1⁄2 cup crisco butter flavor shortening
- 1 cup toffee roasted almonds or 1 cup plain sliced almonds, coarsely chopped
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APPLE FILLING
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1⁄2 cup granulated sugar
- 1⁄2 cup brown sugar
- 1⁄2 tps. cinnamon
- 1⁄8 teaspoon salt
- 6 granny smith apples or 6 gala apples, peeled, cored, sliced into 1/4-inch slices
- 1⁄4 cup smuckers caramel ice cream topping
- 1 (6 ounce) container vanilla yogurt
- 1 1⁄2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
directions
- TOPPING: In small bowl, mix flour brown sugar, cinnamon and gingersnap crumbs.
- Cut in Crisco to form crumb mixture.
- Stir in almond pieces.
- Sprinkle 1 cup of crumb mixture over pie crust. Set aside the remainder.
- FILLING: In large saucepan, combine sugars, flour, cinnamon and salt; mix in apple slices.
- Cook over medium heat for 8 minutes, stirring occasionally until mixture starts to thicken.
- Remove from heat. Stir in caramel topping. Blend in yogurt and flour. Set aside.
- PIE ASSEMBLY: Spon filling into prepared pie crust.
- Sprinkle top with remaining crumbs.
- Place on cookie sheet for easier handling, and bake for 50 minutes, or until browned and apples are tender. Cover crust with last 10 minutes if it browns too quickly.
- Let pie cool before cutting.
- Serve slices of pie with a dollop of whipped cream, if desired.
- Drizzle top with caramel topping.
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