The Best Apple Pie Recipe
Make this easy and delicious apple pie! Tart and sweet apples, warming spices, brown sugar, and a buttery flaky crust? Yes please! This is the best apple pie recipe that is perfect for summertime or the fall.
Ingredients
- 2 pie crust Homemade or store bought
- 1/2 fresh lemon Juiced
- 5 lbs apples
- 3/4 cups brown sugar
- 3/4 cups white sugar
- 5 TBSP all purpose flour
- 2 tsp cinnamon
- 3/4 tsp nutmeg
- 1/2 tsp ginger
- 1/2 tsp clove
- 2 TBSP milk
- Optional raw sugar
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 425 F. Peel all the apples. I generally use whatever I have on hand which are usually Granny Smith and Gala apples.
- Once peeled core your apples. I cut off all the sides and leave the core. If you have something to core it, that will also work.
- Now thinly slice your apple slices. You want them about 1/8 of an inch, just really thin. That way they cook well. You can use a mandolin if you want, just be careful.
- Once you have your apples together put them in a large Dutch oven or very large skillet.
- Add your lemon juice and stir well.
- Now add your sugar, spices, and flour and mix it well until everything is coated.
- Put the heat on medium heat and let your apples cook for about 20 minutes with a lid stirring every few minutes.
- Once your apples are cook and the liquid is thick, add your vanilla and stir.
- Lay out your apple filling on a baking sheet to cool off. I tend to put it in the freezer for 10-20 minutes.
- While your filling is cooling get your pie crust ready. If you’re making it homemade, go ahead and make it and put it in your pie pan and cut off the excess.
- Take your other dough and cut it in strips. Each strip should be about 1/2 inch to 1 inch thick.
- Put your apple pie filling into the pie crust.
- Put 1 row of pie crust strips on your pie vertically.
- Now, start weaving the other strips horizontally. Don’t forget to press down the ends and cut off the excess.
- Once your pie has a lattice put your pie in the fridge for 20 minutes.
- Take it out of the fridge and brush the lattice with milk. You can add the raw sugar now if you want.
- Put the pie on a baking sheet and bake for 15 minutes. Grab some tinfoil.
- After baking for 15 minutes put the foil around the outside of the pie, the outside crust. Put it on loosely.
- Reduce the oven heat to 350F and bake for another 40 minutes.
- Let your pie cool. It can take about 4 hours to fully cool. Serve with a scoop of ice cream!