I love apple pie, honestly I love pie, but I hate making pie crust and I think it’s a waste of time. Its futzy and never turns out great for me – so…confession time…I buy pie crust. Pillsbury does a completely acceptable job, and it makes throwing a pie together pretty fast. Generally pie crusts come 2 in a package, so you could make 1 apple pie, or two “one crust pies” like a pumpkin pie and a ……. dutch apple pie!
I don’t eat pumpkin pie – it is too close to pudding consistency – and pudding is against The Food Rules! (capitals and punctuation required) So at holiday time, I have to make something besides pumpkin pie, but I don’t want an extra pie crust laying around – so I fiddled and faddled around until I came up with this dutch apple pie recipe. Enjoy!
Dutch Apple Pie
Ingredients
- 1 Package Pie Crust - I like the Pillsbury or Marie Callendars brand
- 6-7 C sliced cored peeled apples about 7 small to medium apples
- 1/2 C granulated sugar
- 1/4 C all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp fresh ground nutmeg or already ground if that's what you have
- Topping
- 1/2 C 1 Stick butter, softened
- 1 C all-purpose flour
- 2/3 C packed brown sugar
- 1 Tbsp granulated sugar
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
Instructions
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Preheat oven to 400, roll out pie crust and lay on top of pie plate and let sit for a few minutes to soften
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While crust softens start peeling and slicing apples
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Mix sliced apples with rest of filling ingredients and set aside
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Mix topping ingredients together and set aside
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Situate crust into pie plate and flute edges
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Pour apples into crust and top with topping, you might have a few apples and topping left over depending upon your pie plate - I use an 8" plate and have a tiny bit left over.
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Bake in the middle of the oven for approx. 45 minutes until apples are soft. The thinner you slice your apples, the faster it will bake, I usually do about 1/4' slices.
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Enjoy with whip cream or icecream!
Recipe Notes
Adapted from Betty Crocker
