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Prep time
1 hour 30 minutes
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Cook time
50 minutes
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Makes
1 nine inch deep pie
Author Notes
Our families favorite version of America's most loved pie.
—Alexa
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Ingredients
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1
Double pie crust, purchased or your favorite home made.
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@3 lbs
Fresh Apples;Empire, McIntosh, Granny Smith, Ginger Gold, Pippin, Rome, or your favorite sweet-tart apple.
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1/2 cup
Sugar; it works with recommended replacement amount of sugar substitutes as well.
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2 teaspoons
Cinnamon
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1/4 teaspoon
Ginger
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1/2 cup
All purpose flour
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up to1 cups
Caramel bits(diced wrapped caramel cubes, or those cute caramel "bits"in a bag from Kraft.
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up to1 cups
Walnut pieces
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@ 4 tablespoons
Butter
Directions
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Peel and core apples into a large mixing bowl.
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Add all dry ingredients and toss to coat.
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Line a 9" pie pan with one piece of crust dough
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Fill crust with apple mix, piling up above the edge about an inch. Dot with small chunks of the butter.
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Cover filling with second piece of crust dough and seal all around by crimping top to bottom. Cut a few slits in the top for steam to escape.
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Place in a preheated oven (400 degrees),and bake for 40min. Lower the temperature to 350,and bake 20min. longer until the crust is tan and juice is bubbling from the slits.
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Remove from oven and cool on a wire rack. It can be served in about 20min. or any time thereafter, ( and warmed up in the microwave, till warm.)
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