A warm and delicious apple pie recipe made from scratch by yours truly!
Months ago, I had bushels and bushels of apples that we could not eat fast enough! So, I sought to make an apple pie from scratch. When I looked for recipes online, I often found that they required store-bought pie crusts. This baffled me because by using store-bought crust, it is no longer a “made from scratch” pie. So, I did what I should have done in the first place, I asked my grandma! She then gave me tips on pie crust and other aspects of creating a pie recipe. The following is what I finally was able to come up with and the result is delicious!
Apple Pie completely from scratch!
Ingredients for pie crust
- 2 ½ cup flour
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon baking powder
- 1 cup butter
- ⅓ cup cold water (add more if needed, up to 1 cup likely)
Ingredients for pie filling
- Five or six good-sized apples (apples of your choice, I used Snapdragon)
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 to 2 teaspoons cinnamon powder
- 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon butter
Instructions for pie crust
- Preheat your oven to 425 degrees Fahrenheit
- Cut butter into cubes and place them in a glass mixing bowl
- Add flour, salt, and baking powder to the butter in the mixing bowl
- Blend ingredients
- Slowly add water to the blending ingredients, starting with ⅓ cup cold water
- Continue to add cold water (likely up to 1 cup) until dough ball forms
- Remove dough ball from mixing bowl and separate into two even pieces
- Roll one dough ball out until it evenly covers the pie dish, with a little overhang
- Place dough on a large plate and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes
- Repeat for dough ball number two
- Grease pie dish with butter or nonstick cooking spray
- Once dough is chilled, place dough piece number one on the bottom of the pie dish to fit
- Add filling to the top of dough piece number one
- Top filling with dough piece number two
- Pinch or fold ends all the way around the pie dish to enclose ingredients
- Add ventilation slits in the top dough
- Rub top dough piece with egg wash
- Bake at 425 degrees Fahrenheit for 50 minutes to 1 hour
Instructions for pie filling
- Have the oven preheated to 425 degrees Fahrenheit and dough pieces rolled out and chilling
- While dough pieces are chilling in the refrigerator, prepare filling
- Wash, peel, and slice each of the apples you choose to use for your pie filling (an apple slicer would make slices even)
- Place apple slices into a large mixing bowl
- In a separate bowl, combine flour, sugar, and cinnamon
- Coat the apple slices with the sugar mixture, stirring in-between coatings to make sure they are evenly coated
- Continue shaking mixture over apples and stirring until sugar mixture is gone
- Once all of the apples are evenly coated in the sugar mixture, prepare the bottom layer of pie crust with dough piece number one
- Pour apple mixture over dough piece number one
- Slice thin layers of cold butter and place around the inner edge of crust/apple mixture
- Top with dough piece number two, pinching the edges together all the way around the pie dish
- Cut ventilation slits into the top of dough piece number two
- Rub with egg wash
- Bake at 425 for about an hour or until apples are tender and crust is golden brown
The end result should be a beautiful apple pie (similar to the one pictured above) that has filled your home with an aroma every baker yearns for! This pie recipe takes a good chunk of the day to make between getting the dough just right, thinking it, preparing and mixing the filling and finally the baking but I have to say that it is well worth it! Every time I make this apple pie recipe people go nuts for it and beg for more!
