Apple Crumb Pie. Packed full of apples, super easy recipe and so pretty too! This is really good served warm or cold with ice cream or whipped cream.
Apple Crumb Pie! How could you not like Apple Pie! I think everyone must have tried it at some point, and to be able to make a good apple pie, with a nice crisp pastry is easy, so long as you follow the steps!
Adelenne loves Apple Pies! She often makes them, and has now become quite an expert Apple Pie maker! So here, Adelenne has kindly shared her lovely recipe to show us how she makes her Apple Crumb Pie.If you love crumble toppings, check out our lovely Apple Crumble Cookie Bars!
Recipe by Adelenne Lee
Prep Time
15 minutes
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Cook Time
Approx 1 ½ hrs
Yield
6 - 8 Persons
You will need
9 inch pie dish
Ingredients
Pie dough
Makes 2 disks: (you only need ONE for this recipe so halve the amount or save half the pastry in the freezer for another pie!)
2 ½ cup AP flour
Pinch of salt
1 tsp sugar
250g / 1 cup butter, cold and chopped
¼-1/2 cup ice water
The filling
¼ cup All Purpose flour
8-10 Granny Smith apples
¾ cup castor sugar
1 tsp cinnamon powder
2 tbsp butter
2 tbsp lemon juice
The Crumb Topping
1 cup AP flour
¼ brown sugar
½ Cup cold butter cut into cubes
Instructions
First make the pastry
1. Put flour, salt and sugar in food processor, add butter, pulse until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
2. Slowly add ¼ cup ice water. Pulse till dough is crumbly but holds together when squeezed.
Do not overmix to have a flaky crust. You should see some pieces of butter still.
3. Divide dough into two portions, with dough still crumbly, wrap with 2 pieces of cling wrap to form 2 balls.
Wrap tight, refrigerate till firm. As you only need 1 portion for this recipe, freeze the other one!
To make the pie
1. Preheat oven to 230C / 450 F / Gas 8
2. Make the crumb by mixing everything by hand to resemble big crumbs and put in freezer.
3. Butter a 9 inch pie plate. Roll out 1 disk and put on pie plate, do not trim off the over hang, just fold over into the pie dish so you can refrigerate whilst you prepare the apples.
4. Peel, core and slice apples. To prevent browning add lemon juice. Add sugar, flour and cinnamon. Toss together.
5. Take pie plate out of fridge, unfold the overhang and put apples in and dot around apples with butter, then fold trimming over apples. Bake at 180C /350F/ Gas 4 for 45 mins, then sprinkle crumbs on top of apples and bake a further 30-45 mins. Leave pie to cool for 4-6 hours before cutting.
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Apple Crumb Pie
Apple Crumb Pie. Packed full of apples, super easy recipe and so pretty too! This is really good served warm or cold with ice cream or whipped cream.
Ingredients
Pie dough: * This makes 2 disks:, you only need ONE for this recipe so halve the amount or save half the pastry the freezer for another pie!
- 2 ½ cup AP flour
- Pinch of salt
- 1 tsp sugar
- 250 g / 1 cup butter, cold and chopped
- ¼-1/2 cup ice water
The filling
- ¼ cup All Purpose flour
- 8-10 Granny Smith apples
- ¾ cup castor sugar
- 1 tsp cinnamon powder
- 2 tbsp butter
- 2 tbsp lemon juice
The Crumb Topping
- 1 cup AP flour
- ¼ brown sugar
- ½ Cup cold butter cut into cubes
Instructions
First make the pastry
- Put flour, salt and sugar in food processor,
- Add butter, pulse until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
- Slowly add ¼ cup ice water. Pulse till dough is crumbly but holds together when squeezed.
Do not overmix to have a flaky crust. You should see some pieces of butter still.
- Divide dough into two portions, with dough still crumbly, wrap with 2 pieces of cling wrap to form 2 balls.
- Wrap tight, refrigerate till firm. As you only need 1 portion for this recipe, freeze the other one!
To make the pie
- Preheat oven to 230C / 450 F / Gas 8
- Make the crumb by mixing everything by hand to resemble big crumbs and put in freezer.
- Butter a 9 inch pie plate. Roll out 1 disk and put on pie plate, do not trim off the over hang, just fold over into the pie dish so you can refrigerate whilst you prepare the apples.
- Peel, core and slice apples. To prevent browning add lemon juice. Add sugar, flour and cinnamon. Toss together.
- Take pie plate out of fridge, unfold the overhang and put apples in and dot around apples with butter, then fold trimming over apples. Bake at 180C /350F/ Gas 4 for 45 mins, then sprinkle crumbs on top of apples and bake a further 30-45 mins. Leave pie to cool for 4-6 hours before cutting.
Nutrition Information:
Yield: 8 Serving Size: 1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 699Total Fat: 38gSaturated Fat: 24gTrans Fat: 2gUnsaturated Fat: 11gCholesterol: 99mgSodium: 318mgCarbohydrates: 83gFiber: 6gSugar: 33gProtein: 7g
Nutrition information isn’t always accurate
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