Spiced Apple Pie with Crumb Topping
I love using a crunchy oat topping on my pie. You only need to worry about one crust then and the topping is a showstopper!
Servings: 8 servings
Ingredients
Apple pie filling
- 1 pie crust here's my homemade piecrust
- 4-5 medium apples I like to use Gala
- 2 tablespoon unbleached flour
- 3 tablespoon brown sugar depending on the sweetness of the apples
- 3 tablespoon refined coconut oil melted you could also use butter
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon cardamom
- ⅛ teaspoon nutmeg
- ⅛ teaspoon of pink salt or sea salt
Pecan Oat Crumb Topping
- ¾ cup unbleached flour
- ½ cup pecan halves
- 1 cup oats
- 6-7 tablespoon butter melted (or melted refined coconut oil)
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon cardamom like this one
- 6 tablespoon brown sugar
- couple dashes of nutmeg
- A couple pinches of pink salt
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400.
- Make pie dough, and roll it out, and put it in the pie dish. I'm using a deep-dish pie plate. Set aside.
- Peel apples, then slice them thin and put them into a large mixing bowl.
- Melt the coconut oil (or butter in a small saucepan then stir into the apples.)
- Mix in the flour, and the spices, and sugar, and set aside.
- In a separate mixing bowl make the topping.
- Mix together all dry ingredients.
- Melt butter or coconut oil and pour over dry ingredients. Make sure nothing looks dry.
- Place apple mixture in the prepared pie dish.
- Sprinkle crumb topping over the top evenly.
- Bake at 400 degrees for 15 minutes, then reduce temperature to 350. Continue to bake at 350 for 40-45 minutes or until apple are soft when a knife is inserted.
Notes
*you can use the extra crust off the sides to make little leaf cut outs. You could serve them on top the pie, or on the plate!