6 Amazing Apple Pie Recipes

Apple Pie with Cheese Pie Crust
Apple Pie with Cheese Pie Crust

Apples are the craze during the fall season. You have the classic red, Granny Smith, Gala, Golden, Fuji, and more. From the red to the golden yellow, the sight of an apple shows us fall has arrived. Not only does this fall fruit taste great off the branch, but it serves as one of pie's best fillers.

Apple pie has always been an age-old favorite, dating back to 1390. The first-ever recorded apple pie recipe was created by the Master Cooks of King Richard II. Back then, sugar was scarce and pie crusts were not intended for eating, but just for storage. In the last 600 years, apple pie has had a major makeover with sweet sugars, delightful spices, and flaky crusts. Since 1390, we've seen traditional apple pies, French apple pies, and apple pie "à la mode" (popularized in the 1890s by Charles Watson Townsend after a trip to New York). Apple pie may not have originated in America, but it will always be an American favorite.

Salty Caramel Apple Pie

Nothing says "Autumn" quite like a homemade apple pie! In this caramel apple recipe, the apple remains the star of the show but, in a wild-card move, I've added fleur-de-sel to bring out the robust, hidden flavor notes of the fruit's natural sweetness. Enjoy!

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Apple Crumb Pie


Here's a fantastic pie from Tate's Bake Shop, located in Southampton. The balanced combination of tart filling and sweet crunchy topping in this apple crumb pie is excellent. If you like your pie less sweet, leave off the crumb topping and top the filling with pie pastry for traditional apple pie.

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Apple Pie with Cream Cheese Pie Crust


Here it is, the pie I made earlier this week with cream cheese and apples picked at a friend's wedding in Santa Cruz. I ended up taking this apple pie to my office after I photographed it, and there wasn't anything left on the plate by the time I came back 15 minutes later.

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McDonald's Apple Pie

Ah, McDonald's apple pies - we liked you better when you were fried, but we also understand why that can't be anymore. Ever since McDonald's started transitioning their menu to target a nutritionally conscious crowd, we've had to settle for our dessert pies un-fried, which are technically turnovers, baked but still delicious. Introduced in the late 1960s, these small dessert treats were hits immediately. There's nothing more American than hamburgers, fries, milkshakes, and pies - and you can find them all under the golden arches.

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Bacon Weave Apple Pie

This recipe brings apple pie to the next level and gives the dessert a meaty upgrade. We took an American classic and added sweet flavored bacon inside the pie, added it to the crust, and made a deliciously beautiful bacon-weaved top.

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Cheddar Cheeze-It Apple Pie Recipe

Adapted from one of chef David Burke's creations, the original version of this recipe already had Cheddar cheese in it, but we gave it an extra dose with Cheez-It crackers.

INGREDIENTS

For the pie crust :
1 pound cold butter
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup chilled vodka
1/2 cup soda water
1/8 cup sugar
1 cup crushed Cheez-Its
Pinch of salt

For the apple filling :

12 Granny Smith apples, cored, quartered, and cut into 1/4-inch slices
Zest and juice from 2 lemons
2 sticks unsalted butter
1 1/4 cups dark brown sugar
Pinch of salt
3 ounces Bourbon

DIRECTIONS


For the pie crust:
Cut the butter into ¼-inch cubes. With your fingers, blend the butter into the flour, sugar, Cheez-Its, and salt until it becomes pea-sized granules. Mix in the vodka and soda water. Divide the dough into two disks and wrap in plastic wrap. Refrigerate for at least 1 hour or until ready to use.

For the apple filling:
Toss the apples in the zest and juice. In a large sauce pan, cook the butter until brown and nutty. Add the apples and stir. Add the remaining ingredients and cook until the apples are al dente. Don't overcook. Pour filling onto sheet pan and let cool to at least room temperature

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

Roll out 1 disk of dough into a 16-inch circle that is ¼-inch thick. Line a deep-fluted-removable bottom tart pan with dough. Trim the top so that the dough is flush. Fill with the apples. Roll the second dish of dough to a 14-by-20 inch rectangle and cut into 1-inch strips to make a lattice on the top of the pie. Bake 1 hour. Remove the pie from the oven and grate 2 ounces of aged Cheddar cheese with a microplane over the top. Bake for 10 minutes more to brown the cheese.

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-The Daily Meal