Community Pick
Decadent Apple Pie
"Use your favourite apple variety, just make a note to alter the amount of sugar based upon the sweetness of the apples used!"
photo by Jonathan Melendez
- Ready In:
- 1hr 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 11
- Serves:
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6-8
ingredients
- 7 apples, peeled, cored and sliced
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 tablespoons flour
- 1 1⁄2 tablespoons cinnamon
- 1⁄4 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1 tablespoon lemon zest, finely grated
- 2 tablespoons butter, softened
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Pastry for double crust pie
- 2 cups flour
- 2⁄3 2/3 cup butter or 2/3 cup shortening
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- cold water
directions
- Pastry for double crust pie-------------.
- Combine flour, lard and salt with a pastry blender or fork until balls are the size of a large pea.
- Add cold water by the spoonful and blend until the bowl starts to clean itself as you work the dough.
- Then it is ready for rolling.
- Preheat oven to 450°F.
- Combine sliced apples with sugar, flour, cinnamon, nutmeg and lemon rind.
- Line pie plate with unbaked pie crust, trim pastry, crimp to edge of pie plate. Fill pie crust with apple mixture and dot with softened butter.
- Brush crust edge with water and place pie crust top on top of pie, crimp to the bottom crust. Make some slits in the top crust for steam to escape. Bake for 10 minutes.
- Turn oven down to 350°F and bake for 45 minutes longer.
Questions & Replies
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hey I'm just in 8th grade and I have an assignment to do for one of my classes and the assignment is to write an process essay and I do believe when you all know when it says essay we might as well just pack our bags and move to another state. anyways a process essay is where we need to pick a topic and it can be anything like how to change a tire, I went with apple pie well cause I love to cook even though I've never made apple pie I want to try it with in this month so I need to fine a reliable source to share with my class and my class has over 150 students in it so I need to make this a really good one for me to get extra credit I need to out go everyone. so my question I guess really is if this is a good recipe to use? PLEASE SOMBODY ANSWER ME ON THIS! ITS DUED IN FOUR DAYS AND MY ESSAY NEEDS TO BE 2KWORDS! I MIGHT AS WE DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Reviews
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a very nice easy recipe.a recipe that has the right ingredents -
This was a great pie. It was nice and juicey. The only thing I didn't like about it was the lemon. It was a little bit to bitter. Thanks for posting!! Sincerly Super Spongebob -
I can cook nearly anything but I've NEVER been able to make an apple pie that was juicy. This was my first one that ever turned out and was delicious. My husband had wanted me to buy a frozen one and I decided to try one more time. This is definitely going to be MY pie recipe from now on. Thanks for posting it!
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I love this apple pie recipe. This was my first attempt at baking a pie and thanks to this recipe it was a success!
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I am always trying to find a better apple pie. This one is a definite plus in my book and company enjoyed it served warm with cinnammon ice cream which I made by softening 1/2 gallon of vanilla and blending in cinnamon to taste. Then refreeze it and serve with pie.
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Soooooo good!
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Excellent! Used granny Smith's, added 1/4 cup brown sugar, reduced cinnamon to 1 tsp. and used premade pie crust dough for top and bottom. Nummy!
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I knew the cinnamon was going to be over the top, so i reduced it to 1.5 tsp. i also used cloves instead of the nutmeg. and at the suggestion of my son i added a bag of dried cranberries to the apples. this was such a hit that it did not last long. i plan on making it many more times in the future.
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Made for DH's birthday, apple pie instead of a cake he wished and was very pleased with this one!! I used splenda instead of sugar and just used a half cup, also cut back on the cinnamon to 1 tablespoon and used becel marg for the butter. The pastry was fine, i used shortening, it made enough to fit easily in a 9 inch aluminum pie plate. The only problem I had was that my apples were so juicey that when i took it out of the oven it was sitting in juice, so I quickly, while it was hot slipped it onto a plate, surprizingly it landed in one piece!! It did stick to the plate but did come away ok to lift with a wide spatula. It was delicious topped with a slice of cheddar cheese. thanks for posting.
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Very easy to make. I didn't have any nutmeg on hand so I had to omit it. Instead of regular butter I used vegan butter, which tends to be a little saltier than regular butter. I've also added a hand full of raisins because raisins are just awesome, and instead of 1 cup of sugar I used 1/2 cup of brown sugar. It came out great. Thank you so much for this amazing recipe!
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