My husband’s favorite pie is apple caramel pie from a local bakery in our small town. I haven’t figured out their secret pie recipe yet, so I went searching for a copycat recipe. The problem with trying to find a good apple pie recipe online is everyone has the “best apple pie” recipe. So, I decided to mix some different recipes, including Grandma Ople’s Pie Recipe, to make this pie and it turned out great.
Ingredients
2, 9 inch pie crusts (I used Pioneer Woman’s recipe and only had one disc frozen so made it work)
8 Granny Smith apples (cored, peeled, sliced)
1 stick unsalted butter
4 tablespoons flour (1 for the filing and 3 for the caramel topping)
A little less than 1/4 cup water
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1 cup white sugar (1/2 cup for the filling and another for the caramel topping)
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon all spice
Instructions
Start with your one pie crust and place in the pie pan.
Once your apples are sliced, place in a large bowl and mix in 1 tablespoon flour, 1/2 cup sugar and the cinnamon, nutmeg and all spIce and mix well. Then, pour the apples into your pie crust/dish.
Now, take your other pie crust and cut into strips and make a lattice design on the top. You want this kind of spread out so the caramel topping will drop into the filling.
Next, make your caramel topping: On the stovetop on medium high heat - melt your butter and add 3 tablespoons flour, water, vanilla, brown sugar and 1/2 cup sugar. Mix until everything is melted and is a dark brown color.
Now drizzle the topping all over the pie in between the lattice openings.
To bake, cook on 425 degrees for 20 minutes, then turn down to 350 and continue to bake for 45 minutes. (After the cooking time, I added foil on top and cooked for an additional 20 minutes to make sure the apples were softer.)
Let sit for 20 minutes so it will set up. Note this has the caramel drizzle so it is more liquidy than a normal apple pie.
To serve, cut a slice and top with vanilla ice cream and drizzle with sea salt caramel sauce.
Baked caramel apple pie.
Pie with caramel topping before cooking.
Apple filling before topping with lattice pie crust.
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