Try our easy apple pie recipe. Want to make the perfect apple pie filling? This is the best deep dish homemade apple pie to make for the family…
Ingredients
- ground cinnamon 1 tsp
- demerara sugar 3 tbsp, plus a sprinkle for the top
- cornflour 1 tbsp
- Granny Smith apples 4, cored and sliced
- butter 25g, cubed
- egg 1, beaten to glaze
- vanilla ice cream to serve
- plain flour 250g
- butter 125g, chilled and cubed
- icing sugar 2 tbsp
- ice cold water 6-7 tbsp
Method
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Step 1
To make the pastry put the flour and butter in a bowl. Use your fingers to rub the two together. Stop when you have a mix of breadcrumb-sized and pea-sized lumps of butter (this will give you a flakier pastry). Stir in the icing sugar and a pinch of salt. Add the iced water spoon by spoon, mixing with a butter knife as you add until it clumps together into a dough. Wrap in clingfilm and rest for 30 minutes in the fridge.
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Step 2
Heat the oven to 190C/fan 170C/gas 5. Cut the pastry into 2, making one piece slightly bigger. Roll out the larger piece and use to line a 20cm x 3½ cm deep metal pie tin.
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Step 3
Mix the cinnamon, demerara sugar and cornflour together well. Put the apple slices in a bowl and toss with the cornflour mix. Pile into the lined tin then dot with butter.
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Step 4
Roll out the rest of the pastry to make a lid. Cover, trim and crimp together the edges. Make a steam hole in the middle (decorate the top with the off-cuts if you like). Glaze the top of the pie with egg, chill for 15 minutes then glaze again (this will give you a deep golden crust). Sprinkle the surface of the pastry with more demerara then cook for 40 minutes until crisp and golden. Serve with a scoop of ice cream.
Nutritional Information
- Kcals 443
- Fat 22g
- Saturates 13.4g
- Carbs 54.3g
- Sugars 20.2g
- Fibre 2.5g
- Protein 5.6g
- Salt 0.5g
