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Apple Cinnamon Pie
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2 hours 40 min
There's nothing better than a warm and delicious homemade apple pie. This one is pretty simple to make and tastes fab with cream, whipped cream or ice cream.
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Ingredients
Serves: 12
- 300g plain flour
- 150g unsalted butter, cubed
- 100g caster sugar
- 2 level teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon vanilla sugar
- 1 pinch salt
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 4-5 apples
- 2 tablespoons caster sugar
Method
Prep:30min ›
Cook:1hr10min ›
Extra time:1hr chilling ›
Ready in:2hr40min
- Mix flour with baking powder in a large bowl. Stir in 100g sugar, vanilla sugar and salt. Add the butter and egg. Work everything into a smooth dough. Wrap and chill for 1 hour or overnight.
- Peel apples, quarter, core and then finely chop either in the food processor or by hand. In a cup, mix 2 tablespoons sugar with cinnamon and toss with apples (use more or less of cinnamon-sugar depending on sweetness of apples).
- Preheat oven to 190 C / Gas 5. Grease a round springform cake tin with butter.
- Line base and sides of tin with 2/3 of the chilled dough. Pour in apple mixture and roll out remaining dough into a circle. Place circle of dough on top of the apples, sealing the pastry together at the sides. If there is any leftover dough, cut out pretty shapes and decorate the pie.
- Bake in preheated ovven for 40 minutes. Lower oven temperature to 180 C / Gas 4 and bake for an additional 30-40 minutes.
- Allow pie to cool slightly. Serve warm or cold.
