Classic apple pie
- Preparation and cooking time
- Total time
- + resting + chilling
- Easy
- Serves 6
Ingredients
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 3 tbsp demerara sugar, plus a sprinkle for the top
- 1 tbsp cornflour
- 4 Granny Smith apples, cored and sliced
- 25g butter, cubed
- 1 egg, beaten to glaze
- vanilla ice cream, to serve
- 250g plain flour
- 125g butter, chilled and cubed
- 2 tbsp icing sugar
- 6-7 tbsp ice cold water
Method
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.