Apple Crisp Pie

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Description

I had an abundance of apples and needed to use them. We love apple crisp but I just made it a few days before. Pie sounded nice, so I combined 4 different recipes to get this one. It has almost a shortbread type crust and is just the right balance of sweet and tart. I had to hurry and write the recipe down so I wouldn’t forget it because I will definitely be making this again!

Ingredients

  • ½ cup butter, softened
  • 2 ounces cream cheese, softened
  • 1 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
  • 2 tablespoons white sugar
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • 6 cups Granny Smith apples – peeled, cored and thinly sliced
  • 1 tablespoon lemon juice
  • ¼ cup brown sugar
  • 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
  • ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • ¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg
  • ⅛ teaspoon ground ginger
  • ¼ cup brown sugar
  • 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
  • 10 tablespoons quick cooking oats
  • 6 tablespoons butter

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Spray a 9-inch pie dish with cooking spray.
  2. To make the crust
  3. beat 1/2 cup of butter with cream cheese in a mixing bowl with an electric mixer until thoroughly combined; scrape the sides of mixing bowl occasionally to incorporate all the butter and cream cheese. Beat in 1 1/4 cups flour
  4. the white sugar
  5. and salt on medium-low speed until the mixture looks like coarse cornmeal
  6. about 20 seconds. Increase the speed to medium-high
  7. and beat until the dough begins to clump together
  8. about 30 more seconds.
  9. Lay out a 24-inch piece of waxed paper on a work surface
  10. and scoop the dough out onto the left half of the paper. Form it into a ball
  11. and flatten it into a 6-inch disk; fold the right side of the paper over the dough disk
  12. covering the dough. With the rolling pin on top of the paper
  13. gently roll the dough out into a round crust about 1/8-inch thick; peel off the top half of the waxed paper
  14. turn the dough out onto the prepared pie dish
  15. and fit the dough into the dish. Peel of the remaining portion of waxed paper.
  16. To make the filling
  17. mix together the apples and lemon juice in a bowl. In a small bowl
  18. mix 1/4 cup of brown sugar
  19. 2 tablespoons of flour
  20. the cinnamon
  21. nutmeg
  22. and ginger together until thoroughly combined
  23. then mix the flour mixture with the apples. Pour the apple filling into the crust.
  24. To make the topping
  25. combine 1/4 cup of brown sugar
  26. 2 tablespoons of flour
  27. and the oats; with a pastry cutter
  28. cut in 6 tablespoons of butter
  29. until the mixture looks like coarse crumbs. Spoon the topping evenly over the apple filling.
  30. Bake in the preheated oven until the apple filling is bubbling and the topping is golden brown
  31. about 40 minutes. If the crust begins to look brown after about 20 minutes of baking
  32. cover the crust edge with a strip of aluminum foil.

Prep Time: 40 mins

Cook Time: 40 mins

Total Time: 1 hr 20 mins

Servings: 8

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