Apple Crumble Pie - Apple Season has arrived!

I found myself at the Downtown Ames Farmer's Market last weekend with a goal of buying flowers from the Friends Flowers stall. I accomplished this pretty quickly, although trying to choose from the beautifully assembled bundles was not an easy task. As I meandered down Main Street on my way to Birds Unlimited, I walked by Deals Orchards stall. Of course I couldn't pass without buying a small bag of an early apple variety called Early Blaze. Described as crispy and tart, I decided they would be perfect in a pie. Finding a recipe for Apple Crumble Pie I got to work.

Apple Crumble Pie

Apple Crumble Pie

         Preheat oven to 350 degrees. 

        Ingredients for crust and crumble:

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon salt, divided
• 1/2 cup chilled butter, cut into small pieces
• 1/4 cup ice water
• 1 tablespoon white vinegar
• Cooking spray
• 1/2 cup regular oats
• 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
• 3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon, divided
• 1/8 teaspoon ground cloves, divided
  
  
  Directions for Crust and Crumble
  1. Lightly spoon flour into dry measuring cups; level with a knife. Combine 2 cups flour and 1/2 teaspoon salt in food processor; pulse 2 times or until combined. Add butter; pulse 6 times or until mixture resembles coarse meal. With processor on, slowly pour ice water and vinegar through food chute, processing just until blended (do not allow dough to form a ball).
  2. Remove two-thirds of dough and press into a 4-inch circle on plastic wrap. (Leave remaining dough in processor.) Cover dough with 2 additional sheets of overlapping plastic wrap. Roll dough, still covered, into an 11-inch circle. Place rolled dough in freezer 5 minutes or until plastic wrap can be easily removed. Remove top sheets of plastic wrap; fit dough, plastic wrap side up, into a 9-inch pie plate coated with cooking spray. Remove remaining plastic wrap. Fold edges under; flute. Set aside.
  3. Add oats, brown sugar, 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon, and a dash of cloves to the dough in processor; pulse several times or until crumbly. Set aside.

Pie, ready for the oven

 

Ingredients for apple pie filling:

• 5 cups diced peeled tart apples
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 2 tablespoon all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg and/or ground cloves

Directions for Filling

1. In a bowl, combine first five ingredients; spoon into pie shell and bake 50 minutes or until golden in color and apples are of desired tenderness.

 

Apples, ready to be put into pie crust