Recipe: Perfect Easy Apple Pie

Easy Apple Pie.

You can cook Easy Apple Pie using 8 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Easy Apple Pie

1. You need 5 of Granny Smith Apples.
2. You need 125 grams of soft brown sugar.
3. You need 1 of Rind and juice of a lemon or orange.
4. You need 6 of clove.
5. You need 1 tbsp of plain white flour.
6. Prepare 30 grams of butter.
7. It's 2 tbsp of caster sugar.
8. You need 1 large of sheet of premade pastry.

Easy Apple Pie instructions

1. Preheat oven to 200°F C..
2. Mix the lemon or orange rind/juice with the cloves, flour and sugar.
3. Peel and core the apples and cut into thick slices..
4. Place a third of the apple slices in the base of a deep pie dish and sprinkle with half of the sugar mixture..
5. Cover with half the remaining apples and sugar mixture then arrange the rest of the apples on top..
6. Pour the orange juice over..
7. Cut the butter into small pieces and dot over the apples..
8. Roll the pastry out onto an oblong tray on a lightly floured surface about 4cm larger than the pie dish. Cut out a 1.25cm strip. Dampen edges of pie dish with a little then place the thin strip on the pie dish edge. Dampen the pastry edge then place the rest of the pastry in position. Press the edges firmly together using a fork..
9. Brush pastry with a little water and sprinkle with sugar..
10. Bake in the preheated oven for 15 mins then reduce the temperature to 180°F C for 30 mins..
11. Allow to cool for 10 mins..