Caramel Apple Pie – A beautiful and delicious pie made with homemade caramel sauce and apples. Beautiful, satisfying, and delicious is what I call it! A slice of this pie with vanilla ice cream drizzled with caramel sauce is pure deliciousness 😋
Homemade caramel is the best and I highly recommend using that. It’s pretty simple to make and tastes so good! I planned to decorate the pie with the lattice design. You could decorate the pie however you want to.
I hope you’d enjoy making this pie as much as I did! Here you go with the recipe!
Ingredients:
Crust: ( Makes one 9” pie and double the crust recipe for a lattice pie)
All-purpose flour -21/2 cup
Salt- 1 tsp
Sugar- 1/2 tbsp
Crisco shortening or Unsalted butter – 1 cup
Ice cold water- 5 tbsp
Pie Filling:
Firm apples – 3 cups or 6 apples ( peeled, cored and sliced )
Cornstarch – 3 tbsp
Granulated Sugar / Demerara sugar – 1 cup
Lemon juice – 2 tbsp
salt – a pinch
Caramel Sauce:
Granulated sugar- 11/2 cup
Unsalted butter- 1 stick
Heavy cream-3/4 cup
Salt-1 tsp
Method:
For the caramel sauce:
Heat the granulated sugar in a medium saucepan over medium heat stirring continuously till the sugar melts to form a thick brown liquid.
Once the sugar is completely melted remove from heat and add in the butter. Mix well.
Once the butter has completely melted and incorporated into the caramel sauce add the heavy cream and let the mixture book for 30 sec. Remove from stone. Add the salt and mix well. Let the caramel sauce cool completely.
For the pie:
Mix flour, salt, sugar, and shortening to a fine grainy texture ( like bread crumbs). Add water little by little and let form a dough.
Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for an hour.
Remove roll to a 9″ diameter circle, wrap around the pie pan, there should be one-inch dough hanging over the edges.
Place in the refrigerator.
Make the pie filling. In a bowl add everything listed under pie filling and toss well. Keep aside for ten minutes.
Preheat oven to 425 ° f, remove the pie and, add the filling, drizzle caramel sauce all over and use another 9” dough disk to make a lattice pattern and decorate as desired. Keep the decorated pie in the refrigerator for 20 mins. Brush the pie with egg wash ( one egg beaten with one tbsp milk) and sprinkle with coarse sugar.
Place pan in the oven and reduce temperature to 350° f, bake for 40 minutes, and increase the temperature to 375 and bake for another 10 minutes. Remove let cool for an hour to slice.
Serve with vanilla ice cream drizzled with caramel sauce on top.
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