3.17.2010

Brown Sugar Crunch Apple Pie

Ingredients:
(creamy filling)
1/4 cup butter (melted over medium heat until lightly browned– then cooled)
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 egg
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon vanilla
4 large Granny Smith apples (peeled, cored and sliced thin-1/2 inch)
2 Braeburn apples (or any other kind –two different kinds of apples will enhance the flavor)
(topping)
1/2 cup all purpose flour
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 cup butter

Directions:
Pre-heat oven 350 degrees.
Start with 1 Pie crust in pie plate-crimped and ready to go!
In small bowl beat sugar and egg until fluffy. Stir in flour and vanilla mix well. Beat in butter.
Pour creamy mixture into bottom of crust.
In a bowl, mix 1/2 cup of sugar and 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon, set aside.
Put apples in mixing bowl.
To the bowl of apples, add sugar and cinnamon mixture, stir until coated.
Pour sugared, apple slices into crust. Pile higher in the center.
(topping)
Mix the flour, both sugars and cinnamon in a bowl. With a pastry blender, cut in butter until the mixture looks like coarse crumbs. Sprinkle over apples–press lightly. Dot with butter.

Cover edge of crust with foil or a pie shield.
Bake at 350 for 1 hour.

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