My father, son and husband having breaking my chops for the last 3 days to get back to work. They told me they were gonna go to the bakery and buy dessert if I didn't start baking for them again...lol... So I decided to bake an Crumb Topped Apple Pie with a vanilla sauce.
It was really cute today my youngest nephew had come over for a little while after school. He looked at the fruit bowl on the table and said "wow Aunt Nee~Nee thats a lot of apples, can I have one? I told him yes of course you can, and I told him why I had so many apples. So after I told him I was gonna make an apple pie for dessert, he said " guess what, I'm gonna eat the first piece ok ". Unfortunately, he had to leave before I started baking so I have a piece put a side for him.
Crumb Topped Apple Pie
What you will need:
1 (9 inch) pie shell
6 cups thinly sliced apples
3/4 cup sugar or splenda
2 tbsp flour
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/8 tsp nutmeg
crumb top
1/2 cup flour
1/2 cup brown sugar
4 tbsp butter
a pinch of cinnamon
1) Preheat to 375 degrees.
2) Place sliced apples in a large bowl. In a small bowl, mix together sugar/splenda, flour, cinnamon and nutmeg. Sprinkle mix all over apples. Toss until well coated. Spoon apple mixture into pie shell.
3) In a small bowl mix together flour, brown sugar and pinch of cinnamon. Cut in butter until crumbly. Sprinkle mixture over the apple filling.
4) Cover with foil but not to tight. Bake for 25 minutes. Remove foil and bake for another 30 minutes. Cool on cooling rack.
Well it was time to take this bad boy out of the oven, and after almost an hour of smelling the most amazing smell I ever smelled in my life...lol... OMG.... Letting it cool down was a pretty hard challenge to accomplish.
In the meantime my husband and I had whipped up some Vanilla Sauce to along with it. It was finally time to dig in and boy we could not wait to dig in. It was so good I was pretty impressed with myself on this one. Everyone said it was delicious. I made it with splenda instead of sugar for my mom. Not bad for my very first pie.
If you need the recipe for the vanilla sauce it is on my blog page under Baked Apples w/ Vanilla Sauce. I think I might just have to go get another small piece of pie now.
So for now be safe, Be Happy, Be Loved!!!
