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Sunday, 19 July 2009 04:28 |
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Apples Pies are typically a favorite dessert fast food for most people. An easy to dessert to whip up with just a few ingredients. To that dessert, just add this textured crumb topping and bake it to get a crisp top and bottom apple pie, with a ooozing filling!.
Serve it warm as it is with cold vanilla ice cream or Serve it cold with a delicious cold vanilla custard drizzled over. It sure to make a hit with family and friends.
Makes: 8 servings
Ingredients for the Crust
- 1 1/3 cups all purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon sugar
- 1/2 cup chilled unsalted butter, cut into 1/2-inch cubes
- 3 tablespoons (or more) ice water
Filling
- 3 1/4 pounds apples, peeled, cored, sliced 1/4 inch thick (Approximately 6 cups of sliced apples)
- 2 tablespoons all purpose flour
- 1/4 cup milk
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
Topping
- 1 cup all purpose flour
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
- 1 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 6 tablespoons chilled unsalted butter, cut into 1/2-inch cubes
Method For crust
Mix flour, salt, and sugar in large bowl. Add butter and rub in with fingertips until coarse meal forms. Drizzle the water over flour mixture; and knead with hands adding more water by teaspoonfuls if dough is dry. Gather dough into ball; wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate 30 minutes.
Preheat oven to 200C.
Roll out dough on lightly floured surface to 12-inch round. Transfer to 9-inch-diameter glass pie dish. Trim overhang to 1/2 inch; turn edge under and crimp decoratively. Refrigerate while preparing filling and topping.
Method for filling
Mix all ingredients in large bowl to coat apples.
Method for topping
Blend all ingredients, except butter in a processor. Add chilled butter cubes; using on/off turns, cut in until mixture resembles wet sand.
Toss filling to redistribute juices; Arrange the filling into the crust, mounding in center.
Pack topping mixture over and around apples. Bake pie on baking sheet until topping is golden, about 40 minutes (cover top with foil if browning too quickly).
Reduce oven temperature to 160 C. Bake until apples in center are tender when pierced and filling is bubbling thickly at edges, about 30-40 minutes longer. Let it stand for about an hour and serve with ice cream.
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