Apple Pie

Makes one 9" pie 

Marilyne 

Apple Pie

Ingredients 

One Pastry for Pie Shells double crust recipe or any double crust

4 large Granny Smith apples,eeled and cut in 1/2" wedges

1/3 cup white sugar or a mixture of white and brown sugar. Add more for sweeter pie.

Flour, just a few spoonfuls to coat the apples

1 tsp cinnamon 

Instructions 

Preheat oven to 450 F.

Put a bottom crust in a pie plate.

Place apple slices in a bowl, coat cut apples with a few spoonfuls of flour and a one tsp of cinnamon. Toss and place in bottom crust.

Add the top crust to your pie. Cut the excess pie dough with a knife to make even edges. 

Seal the edges of pie dough: Add a bit of water to wet the edges of the crust to seal the two crusts together. Crimp the crusts with your fingers to completely seal the pie crust edges.

Cut about 4 slits on top crust to allow steam to evaporate.

Sprinkle cinnamon on top of pie before placing in the oven, optional 

Bake at 450 degrees for 10 minutes.

Then lower oven to 350 and bake for 40-50 minutes until done.

Serve hot or cold with optional French vanilla ice cream.

You can freeze pie before it's cooked or after it's baked.

Notes:

If making pie crust is new for you, you’ll find plenty of step-by-step guides in cookbooks, online, and on YouTube.

For the crust, I used Charlotte’s Pastry for Pie Shells recipe but you can buy frozen ready made pie crusts. 

Easy apple pie: 

Buy a ready made baked apple pie from the grocery store. Sprinkle cinnamon on top crust.  Warm the pie, in a preheated 350F oven for approximately 15 to 20 minutes, until warm. Serve with ice cream.

Pastry for Pie Shells ingredients 

Apple pie filling ingredients 

Apple Pie in oven