Easy German Apple Streusel Pie

Description

This is a super-easy pie recipe with a sweet bottom crust, a juicy cinnamony apple filling, and crisp streusel on top, all made out of the same dough.

Ingredients

  • 4 large apples – peeled, cored, and thinly sliced
  • 1 pinch ground cinnamon
  • 7 ounces unsalted butter, at room temperature
  • 1 cup white sugar
  • 3 teaspoons vanilla sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 3 ½ teaspoons baking powder

Instructions

  1. Combine apple slices and cinnamon in a saucepan and cook over low heat for 10 minutes. If necessary
  2. add a tiny bit of water so apples don’t burn. Remove from heat and set aside to cool.
  3. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 10-inch springform pan with butter
  4. Combine butter
  5. sugar
  6. vanilla sugar
  7. and egg in a large bowl; beat using an electric mixer until smooth and creamy. Mix flour and baking powder in a separate bowl. Add 2/3 of flour mixture
  8. 1 tablespoon at a time
  9. to butter mixture and beat on low speed. Add remaining flour mixture and mix in by hand to make a crumbly dough.
  10. Transfer 1/2 the dough into the prepared springform pan and press down to create a bottom crust. Add apple slices
  11. leaving a small space around the edges. Crumble remaining dough evenly on top.
  12. Bake in the preheated oven until streusel and crust are lightly browned
  13. about 50 minutes. Cool on a wire rack for 5 minutes. Run a table knife around the edges to loosen. Carefully transfer to a serving plate or cooling rack.

Prep Time: 20 mins

Cook Time: 1 hr

Total Time: 1 hr 25 mins

Servings: 10

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