When Life gives you apples you make apple pie… said nobody. There is nothing like changing a saying to fit your life reasoning to benefit you right?
I had a wonderful indigenous people weekend with a really close friend of mine, she managed to get me out of my quartine home to travel to a farm, specifically an apple orchard. With acres of apple trees ranging from “Granny Smith” to “Fuji” giving many options for fresh eating or fresh baking apples.
This was a fun experience and gave me the opportunity to live out my farm girl dreams as an urban born and raised woman lol.
So I wanted to bring my rural experiences to Herbnstyle today and share with you all a homemade vegan and allergy-friendly apple pie recipe.
Ingredients:
- Vegan Flakey Pie Crust Recipe
- Large Baking Apples (I used Honeycrisp and Jonagold primarily.)
- Brown Sugar
- Organic granulated sugar
- Cinnamon
- Nutmeg
- Gluten-free all-purpose flour
- Lemon juice
- Water
- Apple Cider
- Vanilla Extract
Materials:
- Rolling pin
- 9″ pie pan
- Fork
- Extra Large Mixing bowl
- Vegetable Peeler
- Knife, Apple slicer, or Mandoline
- Spoon or spatula for mixing
First, Pre-heat your oven to 425 degrees and take one half of your vegan pie crust dough and begin to roll out with a rolling pin and flour to form a 9-10″ in. disk.
Tip: For optimal flaking while baking, be sure to not overwork your dough to keep your crust cold.
Next, place your rolled out dough in your pie pan and mold the dough to form a pie base crust.
Once the dough is molded, cover the dough with parchment paper and beans to ensure the dough does not rise while baking in the oven for 10-15mins.
Tip: If you don’t have parchment paper and beans, poke holes into the dough using a fork for the dough to not rise in the oven
While crust is crisping in the oven start by cleaning and peeling your apples using a vegetable peeler
Tip: if you don’t have access to a peeler use a small knife
Once all of your apples are peeled, begin slicing your apples into thin even slices, and place into your bowl.
Reminder: be sure to de-cord your apples and remove all seeds when slicing
Now that apples have been cleaned, peeled, deseeded, and sliced add in all remaining ingredients (brown sugar, granulated sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, flour, lemon juice, water, apple cider, vanilla) to your bowl and mix for filling.
Once your filling is prepared, roll out the second half of your vegan pie crust and set aside. Then take your baked pie crust base and pour your apple pie filling into your pie pan.
Now, take your remaining rolled out dough and place over the pie pan to cover the apple pie filling, and bake in the oven at 425 degrees for 40-45mins.
Tip: If you have trouble getting your pie crust on your pan use a cookie cutter or dough slicer to form smaller decorated crust pieces in order to make it easier to cover your pie.
Once Pie has baked remove from oven and allow to cool for 10-15mins and slice and enjoy!
Tip: Click here for the Vegan Pie Crust recipe
Vegan Apple Pie
Equipment
- Extra Large Bowl
- Rolling Pin
- 9" Pie Pan
- Vegetable Peeler
- Knife, Apple Slicer, or Mandoline
- Spatula
Ingredients
- 1 Vegan Flake Pie Crust Recipe
- 6 Large Baking Apples
- ½ cup Brown Sugar
- ½ cup Organic Granulated Sugar
- 1 tsp Cinnamon
- ½ tsp Nutmeg
- 3 Tbsp Gluten-free All-purpose Flour
- 1 Tbsp Lemon Juice
- ¾ cup Water
- ¼ cup Apple Cider
- 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
Instructions
- Pre-heat oven at 425°. Roll out half of Vegan Pie Crust dough and place into 9" pie pan and mold the base of the pan
- Puncture holes into pie crust using a fork and cover with parchment paper and uncooked beans to weigh down the dough and bake crust in the oven for 10-15 mins
- Prep your apples by cleaning, peeling, and slicing apples, place apple slices into an extra-large bowl
- In the same bowl add in brown sugar, granulated sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, flour, lemon juice, water, apple cider, and vanilla and mix with a spatula to coat apple slices
- Roll out the second half of vegan pie crust and set aside
- Once the base crust is baked remove from oven, pour in apple filling, and cover the top of the pie with rolled out dough and bake the pie for 40-45mins
- When the pie is finished cooking, with a golden-brown crust, allow for the pie to cool for 10-15 mins and slice, serve, and enjoy
Notes
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