Pie Cutters
A very basic apple pie–but very good! I don’t have a picture of the pie, but I like to use these little pie cutters rather than cutting slits in the top crust.
Classic Apple Pie
Ingredients
- 6-8 tart apples peeled, cored, and thinly sliced (about 6 cups)
- 3/4 to 1 cup sugar depending on how tart your apples are
- 1 Tbs lemon juice optional, if your apples are sweet rather than tart
- 2 Tbs flour
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- Dash ground nutmeg
- 2 Tbs butter
- 2 pie crusts
Instructions
- Make your pie crusts. Standard and low fat versions are here.
- Mix the sugar, flour, cinnamon and nutmeg together. Sprinkle the lemon juice on the apple slices if they are sweet apples. Mix the apples and the sugar mixture together.
- Put one pie crust on the bottom of the pie pan.
- Put the apples on top and spread out.
- Cut the butter into a few pieces and put on top of the apples.
- Top with the other pie crust and cut a few vents for steam to escape or cut out some pieces with tiny pie cutters, pictured above. Bake at 400F for 50 minutes.
Leftover Pie Crust
If you have some leftover pie crust, I like to roll it out and top with a bit of cinnamon and sugar, then bake it so the kids can nibble on it.
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