Scratch-Made Homemade Apple Pie
Preparation Time: 45 minutes
Cook Time: 1 hour
Serves: 1 Large pie, serves 8
Nothing beats a delicious homemade apple pie, scratch-made and baked to golden perfection.
Ingredients
For the Pie Crust
170g Butter, cold and cubed
8 Tbsp Cold Water
315g Snowflake Cake Wheat Flour
1 tsp Salt
For the Pie Filling
1kg Granny Smith Apples, cored, peeled and sliced
150g Sugar
2 Tbsp Snowflake Cake Wheat Flour
1 Pinch of Salt
1 tsp Ground Cinnamon
1 Pinch of Nutmeg
1 Lemon, halved (juice of one half only)
To top
1 Egg, beaten
1 Tbsp Sugar
Method
- Mix the flour and salt in bowl, then add cubed butter and mix through until peas-sized clumps are formed
- Add cold water gradually until the dough comes together (you may not need all the water) - the dough should not be too tacky or stick
- Work together and turn onto your work surface. Work into a ball, cover and refrigerate
- Add the sliced apples, sugar, flour, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg and lemon juice to a bowl, then cover and refrigerate for 30 minutes
- Preheat oven to 200ºC
- On a floured surface, cut the pie dough in half and roll out both halves to about 3 mm thick.
- Roll the dough onto your rolling pin and unroll onto a pie dish, making sure the dough reaches all edges, then trim excess
- Pour in filling mix and pat down, then roll the remaining dough on top
- Trim the excess dough from the edges and crimp the edges together
- Brush the pie with the beaten egg and sprinkle with sugar, then cut slits in the top to create a vent - decorate with pastry offcuts if desired
- Bake for 50-60 minutes or until crust is golden brown
- Serve warm with vanilla ice cream
