Apple Pie (Classic Homemade)
A classic homemade apple pie with a flaky butter crust and a cinnamon-spiced apple filling. An easy, traditional apple pie recipe made from scratch.
Ingredients
Pie Crust
- 1 1/4 cups flour
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 1/4 sticks (10 tbsp) unsalted butter, cold and cut into cubes
- 3 tbsp ice water
Apple Filling
- 1/4 stick (2 tbsp) unsalted butter
- 5 large honeycrisp apples, cut in slices
- 1/4 tsp ground allspice
- 1/4 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 2 tbsp flour
- 2 tsp cornstarch
- 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar (or lemon juice)
- 1 egg, lightly beaten
Instructions
- To make the pie crust, add the flour and salt in a food processor pulse to mix. Add butter and pulse until mixture forms pea-size pieces. Slowly add ice water, 1 tbsp at a time, and pulse until the dough just comes together in a big ball. It should be moist but not sticky.
- Take dough and flatten into a disk. Cover tightly with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 1 hour.
- To make the apple filling, melt 2 tbsp butter in a large frying pan on medium-high heat and add the apples. Ensure they’re evenly coated with butter.
- Mix the spices, salt and sugar and sprinkle over apples, cook for 7 min on medium-low heat while continuously stirring.
- Sprinkle the flour and cornstarch over the apples and continue cooking for 5 min.
- Add the apple cider vinegar, mix well and set aside to cool.
- Preheat oven to 425F. After the dough has cooled for 1 hour, cut the dough in half and roll it out on a floured surface to make a 12” diameter. Place dough in a 9” pie pan. Refrigerate the pie pan while you roll out the top of the pie.
- Take pie pan out from the fridge and pour the apples in the crust, cover with the remaining dough ensuring you pinch and crimp the edges of the pie.
- Using a sharp knife, cut four steam vents in the top of the crust, unless you make a checkered top crust like I did . Lightly brush the top of the pie with egg wash and sprinkle with 1 tbsp sugar.
- Bake for 20 min, then reduce the temperature to 375F and cook for 30-40 min. Allow to cool and enjoy this awesome