Desserts - Crunchy Carmel Apple Pie

By chlovett10

Ingredients

• Crumb Topping:
• 1 pastry crust for a deep-dish pie (9 in. (homemade or store bought)
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 6 cups thinly sliced peeled apples (Marsha likes
• to use golden delicious and fuji apples.)
• 1 recipe crumb topping (see below)
• 1/2 cup chopped pecans
• 1/4 cup caramel topping
• 1 oz of Tender Loving Care
• 1 cup packed brown sugar
• 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup quick cooking rolled oats
• 1/2 cup butter

Preparation

Step 1

Directions for Crumb Topping:

Stir together brown sugar, flour, rolled oats. Cut in ½ cup butter until topping is like course crumbs. Set aside. (Continued on back)


Directions:

In a large mixing bowl, stir together the sugar, flour, cinnamon and salt. Add apple slices and gently toss until coated. Transfer apple mixture to the pie shell (I remove the store-bought pie shell from the aluminum pie plate and transfer it to a 9-inch pie plate of my own, but you do not have to do so.) Sprinkle crumb topping over apple mixture. Place pie on a cookie sheet so the drippings don’t drop into your oven. Cover edges of pie with aluminum foil. Bake in a preheated 375 oven for 25 minutes. Then remove foil and put back in for another 25-30 minutes without foil. Remove from oven. Sprinkle pie with chopped pecans and then drizzle with caramel on top. Cool on a wire rack and enjoy warm or at room temperature.