Crumbly Apple Pie

Prepare your favorite Pie crust

Filling
7 medium Granny Smith, Golden Delicious, or Gravenstein apples, peeled or unpeeled, cored and very thinly sliced
1/2 cup sugar
1 teas. cinnamon
1/4 teas. nutmeg
1/4 teas. salt

Topping
3/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
3/4 cup flour
1/2 teas. nutmeg
1/3 cup chilled butter, cut into small pieces

1. Place oven rack in lowest position. Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

2. Prepare crust and roll it out into a 12 inch circle with a rolling pin. Fit into a 9 inch pie pan. Trim excess dough, leaving a 1-inch overhang; make a decorative edge.

3. To prepare filling, mix together all ingredients. Spoon into crust.

4. To prepare topping, in a small bowl, mix together brown sugar, flour, and nutmeg. Using a pastry blender, cut butter into brown sugar mixture until coarse crumbs form. Sprinkle apples evenly with topping.

5. Bake pie until topping is lightly browned and filling is bubbly, 35 minutes. If pie is overbrowning, cover loosely with aluminum foil. Transfer to wire rack to cool.

P.S. I also added oatmeal to the topping-I think about 1/2 cup. :)

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Apple and Cinnamon Muffins

Kyla and I made these mini-muffins this morning for a little class reading party today. They turned out great and weren't too sweet. Maya and I went along for the party and I noticed her classmates loved them! Hope you enjoy them too!


2 and 1/3 scant cups all purpose flour
3 teas. baking powder
2 pinches of salt
2 teas. ground cinnamon
scant 1/2 cup sugar
3 apples, peeled, cored, and finely chopped
1 cup milk
2 eggs beaten
1 stick of butter, melted

Topping:
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 teas. ground cinnamon

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Place 12 muffin paper liners in a muffin pan*.

Mix together flour, baking powder, salt and cinnamon. Stir in the sugar and chopped apples. Place the milk, egg, and butter in a separate bowl and mix. Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and gently stir until just combined. Mixture will be thick and lumpy.

Divide the batter evenly between the paper liner. To make the topping, mix the brown sugar and cinnamon in a small bowl. Sprinkle over muffins. Bake in the oven 20 to 25 minutes, or until risen and golden.

Remove the muffins from the oven and serve warm or place on a cooling rack and let cool.

Enjoy!

* you can use the small little muffin tins and papers like I did in the picture above. Instead of 12 large muffins, you will have 48 mini muffins.

Oat Flour. Agave Nectar. Apple Delight with Walnuts.

I brought this to a potluck recently. I had a couple requests for the recipe so here it is. It is made with oat flour and agave. I adapted it from one of my favorite Apple desert recipes.

4 medium, tart cooking apples, pealed and sliced. ( I used granny smith this time)
1/2 cup agave nectar
1/2 cup oat flour
1/2 cup quick cooking or old fashioned oats
1/3 cup stick butter, softened
3/4 teas ground cinnamon
3/4 teas ground nutmeg
1/2 cup chopped walnuts (optional)

Heat oven to 375. Grease bottoms and sides of square pan with shortening.

Arrange apples in pan. Mix remaining ingredience. Spoon over apples. Sprinkle with chopped walnuts.

Bake about 30 minutes or until topping looks golden and apples are tender. Enjoy the smell. Serve warm alone or with cream or ice cream.

I doubled this recipe and put it in a 9 by 13 inch pan for the potluck and I actually used lots more apples. I just heaped my pan up with apples because I wanted to use then up. They always shrink down quite a bit!

Hope you enjoy this like we did,

Yours Truly,

Potluck Apple Pie-Taste of Home 1999

Crust
2-1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 cup water
Pinch Salt
1 cup shortening or butter

Filling
1/2 cup maple syrup
3 pounds tart apples (8 to 9 medium), peeled and thinly sliced
1-1/4 cups sugar
1/4 cup lemon juice
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Topping
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup cold butter
1 cup chopped pecans (optional)

In a small bowl, combine 1/4 cup flour and water until smooth; set aside. In a large bowl, combine salt and remaining flour; cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Add reserved flour mixture; knead gently until dough forms a ball. Press dough onto the bottom and up the sides of an ungreased 15-in. x 10-in. x 1 in. baking pan. Spread 1/4 cup syrup over crust. Arrange apples over syrup. Combine sugar, lemon juice, cinnamon, vanilla and remaining syrup; drizzle over apples. For topping, combine flour and sugar in a bowl; cut in butter until the mixture resembles course crumbs. Stir in pecans. Sprinkle over filling. Bake at 350 for 1 hour or until apples are tender.

Enjoy!