My partner and I went to Colorado to visit a friend of his, Cecilia Pang. She is a very adorable and outspoken lady, nice to hang out with her. She has a puff pastry pie shell in her freezer, sitting for so long. She wanted me to make an apple pie with it, cos she loves apple pie. I thought her to make my famous Apple Pie and she loves it. She can make it on her own now, cos I know she can.
Ingredients:-3 Granny smith apple
2 Red Delicious
(actually, more granny smith gives better tartness and body to your pie)
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon (it depends on your taste, you can put 1 1/2 tsp)
1/2 cup Dark brown sugar
1/4 cup granulated sugar
a pinch of salt
1/2 stick unsalted butter
8" Puffy pie shell frozen (from Safeway or Walmart or any)
Method:-1. Peel, core and dice the apple (a size of popcorn)
2. Use a pot or saucepan, cook the apple, both sugar and the butter together until a little soft. Use medium heat.
3. Add in salt, ground cinnamon and nutmeg
4. Cook until the all the apple look glossy and syrupy, take one and taste it. Not too soft tho cos we need to cook it again in oven with the 8" pie shell.
5. Put aside and let the apple cool down a little.
6. Heat the oven to 375 deg.
7. Pour the cool down apple into the shell.
8. Add any toppings you want, either another pie shell or sugar crumbs. When you used another pie shell, remember to brush with beaten egg and poke a whole in the at the center, so that the steam will come out from the apple while baking. Brush the
9. Bake for 25 min the most, and check the color of the crust to your preference.
Sugar crumbs:-1/2 cup Dark Brown sugar
1/4 cup all purpose flour
1/2 stick unsalted butter, must be cold but not too hard
a pinch of salt
Pinch with your fingers or use folk to crumb all together until crumbly. Remember dont melt the butter.
Labels: apple, crumbs, pie
