How to Make the BEST Homemade Apple Pie Recipe

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An apple pie is a pie in which the principal ingredient is apple. In this recipe, I cooked the apple and glazed it to level up the taste of Apple pie. This is a simple yet delicious apple pie perfect for the holiday dessert. Hope you get to try and enjoy it! 🙂

YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/BUsZHmcFIP4

Ingredients

Pie Crust – https://youtu.be/TL_phitr7rU

[apple filling]

3 lbs Apple (Honey Crisp) – https://amzn.to/2Kb6pJB
3 tbsp Lemon Juice – https://amzn.to/36BQLyn
2/3 cup Sugar – https://amzn.to/38JSK6k
1/4 cup Butter (unsalted) – https://amzn.to/3pwTIcj
3/4 tsp Ground Cinnamon – https://amzn.to/2Kb4JzJ
1/4 tsp Ground Nutmeg – https://amzn.to/38WASFJ
Dash of Salt – https://amzn.to/3pwjlcX
1 tbsp Cornstarch – https://amzn.to/36zOtzP

[for brushing]

1 pc Egg – https://amzn.to/3nial9E
1 tbsp Whipping Cream – https://amzn.to/3kyFGTN

[sprinkle]

1 tbsp Sugar – https://amzn.to/38JSK6k
1/2 tsp Cinnamon – https://amzn.to/2Kb4JzJ

Steps

[apple filling]

Cut the apple into small pieces
Add sugar and lemon juice and toss
Heat up the pan (medium-high heat)
Melt the butter and add the apple
Add salt and cook for 3 minutes
Adjust the heat to medium-low, add cinnamon and nutmeg and continue to cook
Put the cover, lower the heat and simmer for 5 minutes
After 5 minutes, remove the cover
Add cornstarch
Stir until the syrup gets caramelize
Remove from the heat, drain the syrup
Set aside the apple
Put back the syrup in the pan and simmer until it thickens
Once the syrup thickens, add it back with apple, toss and coat the apple with the syrup

[pie crust]

Stretch the pie crust to fit on the pie pan
Set the pie crust in the pie pan
Set aside the pie crust in the fridge
For the top pie crust, to make lattice pie crust, cut into strips
Set aside (put in the fridge

[for brushing – egg wash]

Beat egg and mix with whipping cream

[for sprinkle]

Combine sugar and cinnamon

[assembly]

In the pie, add the apple filling
On top, lay the longest pie crust strip in the center then lay long to short from the center to the end
Fold the center strip and the strip next after to the center and place another strip underneath
Unfold the strips and fold the other strips then place another strip underneath. Repeat this process until you fill all the pie
Trim any excessed strips
Fold in the edges
Brush the top with egg wash
Sprinkle with cinnamon sugar

[bake]