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Slice of Apple Pie Recipe served with vanilla ice cream on a wooden board, showing flaky crust and cinnamon apple filling.

Apple Pie Recipe

A time-tested apple pie recipe that blends Grandma’s handwritten wisdom, culinary school tweaks, and Safa’s cinnamon accident. The result: a golden, flaky crust with a perfectly spiced apple filling that makes the whole house smell amazing.
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Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 55 minutes
Resting Time (filling + cooling) 2 hours
Total Time 3 hours
Servings: 8
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Calories: 410
Ingredients Equipment Method Nutrition Notes

Ingredients
  

  • 3 Granny Smith apples - Peeled & sliced (tart, firm)
  • 3 Honeycrisp apples - Peeled & sliced (sweet, tender)
  • ½ cup Granulated sugar -
  • ¼ cup Brown sugar - Packed
  • 2 teaspoon Ground cinnamon -
  • ¼ teaspoon Fresh nutmeg - Grated
  • 2 tablespoon All-purpose flour - For thickening filling
  • 1 tablespoon Lemon juice - Fresh
  • 2 tablespoon Unsalted butter - Diced, for dotting filling
  • 2 ½ cups All-purpose flour - For crust
  • 1 cup Unsalted butter - Cold, cubed (for crust)
  • 6 tablespoon Ice water - For crust
  • 1 teaspoon Salt - For crust
  • 1 teaspoon Sugar - For crust

Equipment

  • 1 9-inch pie pan (Glass or metal both work)
  • 1 Rolling Pin (Or a clean wine bottle in emergencies)
  • 1 Large mixing bowl (For apple filling)
  • 1 Sharp knife (For peeling and slicing apples)
  • 1 Measuring cups & spoons (For dry and wet ingredients)

Method
 

  1. Make the crust dough and chill
  2. Peel, slice, and mix apples with sugar/spices
    Bowl of sliced apples surrounded by flour, sugar, and cinnamon in small wooden bowls for making apple pie filling.
  3. Roll out dough and fit into pie pan
  4. Add apple filling and dot with butter
  5. Cover with top crust or lattice, crimp edges
    Unbaked apple pie in a red pie dish with a lattice crust pattern on top of the apple filling.
  6. Bake hot first, then lower oven temp
  7. Let pie cool completely before slicing
    Close-up of a golden-brown baked apple pie slice showing caramelized apple filling and flaky crust.

Nutrition

Serving: 180gCalories: 410kcalCarbohydrates: 58gProtein: 4gFat: 19gSaturated Fat: 11gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 5gCholesterol: 45mgSodium: 220mgPotassium: 220mgFiber: 4gSugar: 30gVitamin A: 550IUVitamin C: 8mgCalcium: 30mgIron: 2mg

Notes

Nutrition information is automatically calculated and should be considered an approximation. Actual values may vary based on specific ingredients used and portion sizes

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