Cheese Crusted Apple Pie

Name: Cheese Crusted Apple Pie
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 1 h
Total time: 1 h 30 min
Yield: 6-8 serving(s)
Ingredients: 1 cup plain flour; 1/2 cup self-raising flour; 2 tablespoons caster sugar; 125 g butter; 1/2 cup grated cheese; 1/4 cup water, approx; 4 large apples, peeled; 1 tablespoon lemon juice; 1 tablespoon plain flour; 1/3 cup sugar; 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon; 1/3 cup brown sugar; 1/3 cup plain flour; 1/2 cup coarsely chopped pecan nuts; 60 g butter

Submitted by Fouzia Parkar

Download

Ready In:: 1hr 30mins
Ingredients:: 15
Serves:: 6-8

ingredients

Cheese Pastry
1 cup plain flour
¹⁄₂ cup self-raising flour
2 tablespoons caster sugar
125 g butter
¹⁄₂ cup grated cheese
¹⁄₄ cup water, approx
Filling
4 large apples, peeled
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 tablespoon plain flour
¹⁄₃ cup sugar
¹⁄₄ teaspoon cinnamon
Topping
¹⁄₃ cup brown sugar
¹⁄₃ cup plain flour
¹⁄₂ cup coarsely chopped pecan nuts
60 g butter

directions

Cheese Pastry: sift flours and sugar into bowl, rub in butter, add cheese, then enough water to mix to a firm dough.
Press pastry into a ball, cover, refrigerate 30 minutes.
Roll pastry large enough to line 23cm flan tin; trim edges.
Cover pastry with a piece of greaseproof paper. Cover paper with dried peas, beans or rice, etc.
Bake in moderate hot oven 7 min, carefully remove paper and beans, bake further 7 min, cool.
Filling: chop apples coarsely, add to pan with lemon juice, cover, cook about 10 min or until just tender.
Stir in flour, sugar and cinnamon; cool to room temperature.
Place filling into pastry case.
Topping: combine sugar, flour and pecans in a bowl, rub in butter until mixture is coarse and crumbly.
sprinkle this on the filling in the pastry case.
Bake in moderate hot oven 15 min, reduce heat to moderate, bake further 15 min; cool to room temperature.
decorate with whipped cream, extra chopped pecans and icing sugar, if desired.

Questions & Replies

Got a question? Share it with the community!

Reviews

Have any thoughts about this recipe? Share it with the community!

RECIPE SUBMITTED BY

Fouzia Parkar

United Arab Emirates

to start with, i am a commerse graduate. i am doing my iata and planning to work on the airport. 2 things i do most r talk and laugh and make others laugh along. i like making friends. i have a lot of interest towards the designing field. basically it is that everything that revolves around creativity is my interest. i have lots a hobbies like pot painting, ceramic and tissue flower making, coin collecting, painting, stamp collecting, stitching etc...... i love reading mystery novels and also love watching suspense and horror movies. i love cooking but not the typical food cooked at home. i love trying out new stuff. i love to mix recipes and make new things out of them. i like more of baking which u will notice in the recipes that i post. i hope u enjoy them :)

View Full Profile