This homemade apple pie is flavorful, delicious, and easy to make! It's the perfect pie to make for Thanksgiving or Christmas.
When making this pie it smells absolutely amazing in the house. The scent of nutmeg, cinnamon, and baking apples is absolutely wonderful! The trick to making the apples tender in this pie is to cut the apple into thin slices. This way, the apples are evenly baked and the flavors are evenly coated.
Making the Crust for Homemade Apple Pie
You can make it easier on yourself when it comes to thin out the crust but doing some of the work ahead of time. After mixing the ingredients and before placing it in the refrigerator, roll the crust into a disk and flatten it out to about ¾ to 1 inch before chilling.
That way, when it comes out of the refrigerator, it'll be easier to use a rolling pin and it will keep its shape.
Making the Pie Filling
Do you want your homemade apple pie to be moist and juicy for serving? If so, then simply add the apples to the pie filling mixture and add them into the crust.
If you prefer to have your bottom crust crisper and the pie not so juicy, place your apples into a skillet and simmer on low until the desired amount of juice comes out of the apples.
I personally prefer to have some juice in the apple because it makes it more flavorful. It's your pie, make it how you like it!
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📖 Recipe
Mama's Delicious & Easy Apple Pie
Ingredients
Pie Crusts
- 2 ½ cups all purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- ¾ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon nutmeg
- ⅓ cup shortening
- 8 tablespoon butter - cold and cut into tbsp
- 10 tablespoon water - ice cold
Pie Filling
Top of Pie Crust
- 1 tablespoon butter - melted
- 2 tablespoon sugar
Instructions
Pie Crusts
- Preheat oven to 400°F.
- Combine flour, sugar, salt, cinnamon, and nutmeg in a bowl.
- Cut in shortening and butter until butter is broken down into small bits.
- Add in water, 2 tablespoon at a time until no longer crumbly.
- Work crust with hands and roll into a ball.
- Separate into 2 balls, one larger than the other. The larger will be the bottom crust.
- Flatten out balls into a circular shape and place in the fridge for 20 minutes.
Pie Filling
- Slice roughly 8 apples into thin slices. (8 cups)
- Combine all dry ingredients and pour over apples.
- Mix apples and sugar mixture well to combine. Set Aside.
Apple Pie
- Take pie crusts out of the fridge and roll thinly and place in pie dish.
- Pour apple filling into pie crust and even out.
- Roll out second pie crust and cut into strips if desired. Place over pie filling.
- Brush melted butter over top of the pie crust and sprinkle with sugar.
- Place aluminum foil around edges of pie and bake for 40 minutes.
- Remove aluminum foil from pie and bake for another 10-20 minutes or until the top of the pie is golden brown.
- Let cool before slicing.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutritional information is an estimate based on third-party calculations. Actual values may vary due to ingredients, measurements, and serving sizes.
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Oh that looks delicious and sounds so simple that even I could do it! Ha. Thanks for sharing. I'm pinning this for apple picking season!
Yum! Apple pie just might be the best thing about fall!
Oh Mylanta that looks amazing. I'm pinning this to save for fall! Yum. Thank you for sharing!
Although I feel like I never have time to bake fresh deserts, I WILL find time to bake this. YUM
I can basically taste a warm slice of this with vanilla ice cream just by reading through the recipe! I’m not much of a pie baker, but I think this is one I need to try.
oh i love apple pie! perfect time, i'm heading to the orchard this week!