Classic Dutch Apple Pie Recipe
A delicious heart warming pie that the whole family will love.
Equipment
- 1 Springform pan
Ingredients
Dough
- 125 gram unsalted butter at room temperature
- 350 gram all purpose flour
- 250 gram regular sugar
- pinch salt
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 2 eggs
- 1 egg yolk for brushing
Filling
- 1.5 kg apples preferably a sour kind
- 75 gram cane sugar
- 2 tbsp cane sugar to sprinkle on the pie
- 75 gram raisins
- 1 tbsp cinnamon
- 1 lemon
Instructions
Filling
- Cover the raisins with warm water and let them sit for about 10 minutes. Then remove the raisins out of the water and squeeze the excess water out of them.
- Peel, core and chop the apples in small pieces. Add the raisins, cane sugar, cinnamon and juice of the lemon to the apples and mix well.
Dough
- Mix the eggs and butter until combined.
- Mix the all purpose flour, baking powder, salt and sugar.
- Combine the eggs and butter mixture with the flour mixture and knead until it forms a dough.
- Divide the dough in two. One part a bit larger than the other. Put each part between plastic foil and roll it out into a flat disc so it can cover your baking tin. Put both discs shortly in the freezer.
Combining the pie
- Preheat the oven to 160°C.
- Grease your baking tin.
- Remove the largest disc out of the freezer and place it in the baking tin to cover the bottom and sides of the baking tin.
- Place the apple mixture into the baking tin. Make sure not to put all the liquid in in order to avoid a soggy bottom.
- Remove the second disc from the freezer and cut the dough into long strips. Place the dough strips on top of the apple mixture in a braid pattern.
- Brush the dough strips with the beaten egg yolk and sprinkle the cane sugar on top.
- Bake the pie for an hour in the preheated oven until golden brown.
- Best enjoyed slightly warm with whipped cream.