#CRUMB CRUST FOR APPLE PIE FULL#

Weigh your ingredients! Always weigh your dry ingredients, especially when it comes to baking.

However, in a pinch, if you aren't a pie crust novice, you can make it work. It gives the dough less time to hydrate, and makes it harder to roll out. I never advise making dough the same day you plan to bake it. New to making pie crust? I suggest you take a look at my Ultimate Guide for All Butter Pie Crust. Here are some of the best apples for baking: Gala and Granny Smith apples are both good choices for apple pie because they don't get mushy after a long bake in the oven, and they have a sweet and tart flavor to them. Using a combination of apples is helpful because it introduces a few different types of flavors and textures to the pie.

baking apples (see below for my recommendations)įor a pie, you want to have an apple that can hold it's shape, has a nuanced flavor and a slight tartness to break up the sweetness of the sugar.

#CRUMB CRUST FOR APPLE PIE FULL#

The full recipe is listed below in greater detail. Here is an overview of the ingredients needed for this recipe. The blend of Gala and Granny Smith are perfect in this Apple Crumble Pie! This pie starts off with a flaky pie crust (this one or this one works well), filled with juicy and tart cinnamon apples, topped with a crunchy oatmeal crumble. Now, having found this magical medley, I've never looked back they are not my go-to's. For me, the holy grail is a combination of Gala and Granny Smith. I learned a lot, but most importantly I learned which apples are truly best for apple pie. Things changed when I started personally working with a local farm and I got into the nitty gritty research of apples in general. Looking back now, I realize I was using whatever apple came my way from the farmer's market, or whatever my chef would order for apples and that was a big part of the problem. Despite trying multiple recipes, I just felt the apples were never the right consistency and it lacked that oomph of flavor I was after.

Even after I was making pies full-time, I never could make an apple pie I was entirely happy with. Apple Crumble Pie RecipeĬan I let you in on a secret? I failed at making a good apple pie the first few years into my baking career. An absolute classic, this Apple Crumble Pie is filled to the brim with juicy apples laced with cinnamon, inside of a buttery flaky pie crust and baked off with a delicious oat crumble.

Crumb crust for apple pie