All American Apple Pie
Desserts | Baking, Entertaining, Holiday, Kid Friendly | Fruits, Pasta & Grains
SERVES 6 - START TO FINISH: 20 minutes prep, 40 minutes baking time
Cooking Notes
For testing purposes, I used Pillsbury ® Refrigerated Pie Crusts. If you don’t have apple pie spice, substitute 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon, 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg and 1/4 teaspoon allspice
All American Apple Pie
2 refrigerated pie crusts*
3/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup all purpose flour
1 teaspoon apple pie spice*
dash salt
3 pounds Granny Smith apples, peeled, cored, thinly sliced
2 tablespoons butter, melted
Vanilla ice cream, for serving
1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
2. In a large zipper top bag place, sugar, flour, salt and spice. Add apples, close and shake to coat well. Set aside.
3. In a 9-inch pie plate, place one crust evenly over the plate and press into plate. Add coated apples and drizzle melted butter over them. Cut second crust into strips and weave a lattice top. Crimp edges and place in preheated oven.
4. Bake 35 to 40 minutes until crust is flaky and golden brown. Remove from oven and rest for 10 minutes before serving with ice cream, if desired.
All American Apple Pie
What’s a more American dessert than apple pie? And what’s more American than a college cook-off between guys and girls? I can’t think of a thing.
My daughters came home from school with this recipe, which was the big winner at a cooking contest among their friends at East Carolina University. Torre Grills, a junior from Charlotte, N.C., won top honors for her amazing Apple Pie. And when I sampled a slice, I had to have the recipe.
I can’t seem to help myself, making even a winning recipe it as “desperate-cook friendly” as possible so I substituted apple pie spice, which is one of my favorite dessert spice blends. But Torre uses 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg and 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon. You can, too, and even throw in a dash of allspice, if you want. I also like my apples thinly sliced, instead of chunks but either will work just fine, as well.
Really the only slightly difficult thing about this pie is the lattice top, but even that can be “desper-ized.” Simply roll out the second crust. Slice it into 3/4-inch strips. Take every other strip and lay them over the apples, about 1/2 inch apart. Alternate weaving the remaining strips, one at a time until the lattice work is finished. Think those woven pot holders we did as kids. Crimp the edges and then it’s ready to bake.
All American Apple Pie
Approximate Values Per serving (without ice cream): 464 calories (35% from fat), 17 g fat (7 g saturated), 10.2 mg cholesterol, 3 g protein, 80 g carbohydrates, 7 g dietary fiber, 265 mg sodium
Comments
From Alicia Ross - June 26, 2011
Art, the apples must be thinly sliced, I use a apple peeler/ slicer and the slices are no thicker than 1/4 inch each. Also, did you use a metal pie pan or glass? Metal will cause the pie crust to be darker. If you only have metal, you can wrap the edges at the 30 minute mark with foil to prevent further browning. There are also pie crust edges you can buy at kitchen stores if you do a lot of baking. I prefer glass or ceramic, though for this very reason. Also make sure you are using a 9-inch plate, an 8-inch plate will cause it to be deeper and could cause the cooking problems on the bottom. This is a juicy pie, but with a 9-inch plate, it should not have spillage problems. The foil under neath it shouldn't have effected the cooking, though. Hope it was still delicious, though!
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From Art - June 23, 2011
After following the recipe completly, baked for 35 minutes, the crust was a little darker than Golden Brown, BUT, there was about 1/4 inch of juice at the bottom of the baking dish and the apple slices toward the middle and bottom were not completely cooked. To prevent a spill in the oven as the pie baked, I placed a small sheet of aluminum foil under the glass baking dish. Could that sheet of aluminum foil have had an effect on the cooking apples. I checked the temperature in the oven using an oven temperature gauge and it was right on the 425 degree mark. Any thoughts?