Granini's Dutch Apple Pie

Granini's Dutch Apple Pie

with homemade caramel sauce

GranNini's Dutch Apple Pie

Ingredients:

Apple Innards:

12 sweet apples, peeled and sliced

2 teaspoons cinnamon

1 teaspoon nutmeg

2 cups sugar

4 Tablespoons flour

4 Tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into small pieces

Crumble Topping

1 1/2 cups flour

1 cup brown sugar

1 cup oatmeal, ground to a powder (I put my oatmeal in a blender to grind it.  Works great.)

1 cup butter

3/4 teaspoon cinnamon

1/4 teaspoon nutmeg

1/4 teaspoon salt

1/2 cup pecans, toasted and chopped into small pieces

Unbaked Pie Shell

1/2 cup (8 Tablespoons) Crisco or butter

3/4 teaspoons salt

1 1/4 cups flour

1/2 cup ice water

Homemade Caramel Sauce

1. In a large microwaveable bowl, add in all the ingredients.  
2. After all the ingredients have been added, carefully stir together until all the slices of apples have been coated with cinnamon sugar goodness.
3. Place the bowl in the microwave and cook for 10 minutes on high.  
4. Stir completely, then microwave for another 10 minutes.  (Yes, 20 minutes in the microwave!)
5. When the apples are finished, stir them completely and let them sit while you prepare the pie crust and the topping.
6. Preheat the oven to 365°.
7. Prepare the pie crust.  For step by step instructions, please click here:  Pie Crust.
8. Prepare the crumble topping. 
9. Pour the apple innards into the prepared pie crust.
10. Gently place the crumble topping on top of the apples.  You will probably have a lot of crumble topping left over.  That's okay.  You can use it to top some coffee cake later.  It freezes beautifully.  Just pop it into a freezer ziplock bag until you are ready to use it.
11. Bake for 30 to 35 minutes until the insides are bubbly hot and gooey.
12. Serve with caramel sauce and French vanilla ice cream.

Yummmmmmmmm.

For those of you who like pictures with their instructions, here you go.

Enjoy!

Feel free to use an apple, peeler, corer, slicer.  

It makes doing the apples so much easier -- and more consistent!

One pretty apple, properly peeled and cored.  Slice them into halves or quarters.

See how pretty?

Apples coated with cinnamon & spices, and then baked in the microwave 

Allow the apples to cool just a little.  Then use a pastry knife to cut the apple pieces into smaller chunks. 

 Now it's more like chunky applesauce.

 The pie on the left has bigger pieces, the pie on the right has the pieces mashed & cut.

Set aside.  Prepare the crumble.

 Melt the butter.

 Add in the sugar and spices.

 Stir it all together.

 I didn't have time to grind my oatmeal, so I just sprinkled it in. That works too, but I prefer it with the ground oatmeal.

 I tried using bigger pieces of pecans, and I didn't prefer it.  

Make sure to dice the toasted pecans into much smaller pieces.

 Pile the apples up high into a mound.  The pie on the left is mounded properly.  

The pie on the right needs more apples.

 Pile the crumble on top of the pie.

All done!  See how the innards have caramelized?  Mmmm.

This time I've used smaller chunks of pecans, and ground the oatmeal.  

Aaaah. Perfection.

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