Apple Pie
By Let's Cook It · May 3, 2026
Buttery double-crust pie with cinnamon-spiced apples, the American classic.
- Prep
- 40 min
- Cook
- 1 h
- Total
- 1 h 40 min
- Serves
- 8
- #american
- #dessert
- #baking
- #pie
- #fruit
Ingredients
- 350g plain flour
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tbsp sugar
- 230g cold butter, cubed
- 120ml ice water
- 1 kg tart apples (Bramley or Granny Smith), peeled and sliced
- 150g sugar for filling
- 2 tbsp lemon juice
- 2 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp nutmeg
- 30g cornstarch
- 30g butter, cut in pieces
- 1 egg, beaten for wash
- Coarse sugar for top
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Instructions
- 1
Pulse flour, salt, sugar and butter to coarse crumbs, add water to form dough. Chill 1 hour.
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- 2
Toss apples with sugar, lemon, cinnamon, nutmeg and cornstarch.
- 3
Roll out half the dough and line a 23 cm pie dish.
- 4
Pile apples in the crust, dot with butter pieces.
- 5
Roll the second crust, place over the top, crimp edges and cut steam vents.
- 6
Brush with egg wash, sprinkle with coarse sugar.
- 7
Bake at 200°C for 20 minutes, then reduce to 180°C for 40 minutes.
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- 8
Cool at least 1 hour before slicing so the filling sets.
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