I love apple pie, and fall seems like the best time to make it. I found this recipe in the The King Arthur Flour Baker’s Companion
cookbook, and decided I had to try it. It uses rum and cider in the apple pie filling, which intrigued me. It was delicious, and the small amount of rum enhanced the taste. I modified the recipe a little to cut the amount of sugar in the recipe and increase the cinnamon. I think most apple pie recipes use too much sugar, apples are so naturally sweet already they just don’t need much extra. I use very little sugar in my apple pies, and no one has ever complained they aren’t sweet enough.
Yield: 12
Best Apple Pie Recipe
Prep Time
10 minutes
Cook Time
1 hour
Total Time
1 hour 10 minutes
Ingredients
- pie crust
- 3 1/4 lbs apples, peeled, slice and cored (I used Gala apples)
- 1/4 cup apple cider
- 1 Tablespoon rum
- 2 Tablespoon lemon juice
- 2 teaspoon vanilla
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup cornstarch
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon allspice
- 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425.
- Mix apples, cider, rum, lemon juice and vanilla together and stir.
- In another bowl mix all the dry ingredients - sugar, cornstarch, salt, cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg. Stir the dry ingredients into the apples.
- Roll out a pie crust and put it in a 9 inch pie plate. Add the filling. Then roll out the second crust and put it on top. Cut a few slashes in the crust.
- Bake pie for 15 minutes. Then lower heat to 375 and bake for 45 minutes.
Notes
Nutrition facts are estimates.
Nutrition Information:
Yield:
12Amount Per Serving: Calories: 687Saturated Fat: 10gSodium: 620mgCarbohydrates: 88gFiber: 6gSugar: 18gProtein: 8g
Sounds really wonderful! And I love the fact that you use minimal sugar and just let the apples do the sweetening. I’ve wondered that myself…why do people add so much sugar to things like apple pie? They taste better without it!
This is my first year making Apple Pie, picked the apples off my very own tree!
Yum! Oh my goodness, that looks so delicious. If you can believe it, I have never made a pie in my life lol.
That looks incredible. I can see the bits of cinnamon and seasonings in the filling. YUM!
Oh man, that looks delicious!
warm apple pie and vanilla ice cream – On my!
I think I just drooled myself.
Looks great! I’m always looking for great pie recipes
I know what my next baking project will be. I love apple pie
Yummy!