Easy AF Apple Pie
Super Easy Apple Pie Recipe + Yummy
Servings: 6
Equipment
- Pillsbury Premade Refrigerated Pie Crusts, 2 Count - Walmart.com
- Marketside Peeled Sliced Apples, 12.5 oz, 5 Count - Walmart.com
Ingredients
- 1 package Refrigerated Pie Crust 2 crusts. Room Temperature.
- 24-28 oz of Peeled Snack Apples aim for 6 to 7 cups of peeled apples
- 1/4 cup Brown Sugar
- 1/2 cup Sugar
- 2 TBSP Flour
- 1 tsp Cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp Nutmeg
- 1/2 tsp grated lemon peel
- 1-2 tsp lemon juice
- 1 TBSP Butter or Margarine
- A little extra brown sugar
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425°
- In a medium to large bowl, mix apples, sugar, brown sugar, flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, lemon peel, and lemon juice together.
- Unroll one of the pie crusts. Be careful unrolling. If it's too cold, it will break up, especially as you get to the end of the roll. If the pie crust breaks up, allow a few minutes at room temp for it to adjust, and then try some more. Do your best to unroll it, and then in the broken areas, pinch it together and then rub it smooth. Flip it, repinch and rub smooth.
- Place in pie pan. Sprinkle bottom with a thin layer of brown sugar.
- Dump the apple mixture into the pan.
- Dot with butter sporadically over the top.
- Unroll the second pie crust.
- Find the center, and maybe mark it with a slight indent with your finger.
- Use a cookie cutter, and cut pieces around center. You can cut out pieces and discard the left-over dough, or you can flip flop between cut pieces and place the cookie cutter piece over the crust in between cut pieces. For the second, make sure you have room between cut pieces to do such a thing. It's easiest to add the cookie cutter pieces after you top the pie. But you can get creative with cutting the pie crust on top and reapplying it as decor.
- Place crust on top of pie.
- Smash the edges with your fingers, pinching together to form the pie crust like shape, or you can instead smash a fork around the edge to seal the crust and make a jagged effect.
- Bake at 425° for 40-50 minutes, until golden.
- This is best served warm with vanilla ice cream.
Notes
Decorating Pie
You can add a golden color by brushing the top of the pie with an egg yolk and 1 tsp of heavy whipping cream... Or you can brush or spray heavy whipping cream to the top.
To make some parts more brown than others, brush over it with egg yolk, cream, and cinnamon and brown sugar.
Pie Filling Tips
You can totally omit the lemon, but it's better with it. Some people add a little vanilla or bourbon.
Make sure when measuring brown sugar to pack it into the cup (like smash it down with a spoon until the cup is full rather than letting it lay there all loose).
If your brown sugar is hard, you can microwave it for 30 seconds to loosen it up.
I sprinkle the bottom with a little brown sugar for both flavor and to keep the juices from the egg being absorbed into the pie crust. But you can instead brush the bottom with egg whites to help stop the crust from absorbing the juices.