Sour Cream Apple Pie

By vealam

Ingredients

• For the crust:
• 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 tablespoon granulated sugar
• 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, cold and cut into cubes
• 1/4 cup water, cold
• For the filling:
• 1 cup sour cream
• 3/4 cup granulated sugar
• 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
• Pinch salt
• 2 large eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 5 large granny smith apples, peeled and thinly sliced
• For the topping:
• 1/2 cup light or dark brown sugar
• 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/4 cup unsalted butter, melted

Details

Servings 8
Preparation time 40mins
Cooking time 100mins
Adapted from completelydelicious.com

Preparation

Step 1

To make the crust:
In medium bowl, combine flour, salt and sugar. Add cubed butter and use pastry blender to cut butter into dry ingredients until size of small peas. Add water 1 tablespoon at a time until dough starts to come together into ball. Dump dough out onto clean surface and knead a few times to incorporate all of dry bits. Work quickly, do not over handle.

Divide dough in half and shape into 2 disks. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 2 hours. Note: for this recipe you’ll only need 1 disk. Refrigerate or freeze other disk for another pie.

On a lightly floured surface, roll out the chilled pie crust into a rough 12-inch circle and transfer to a 9-inch pie plate. Trim edges and crimp as desired.

To make the filling & topping:
Preheat oven to 400 °F.

In a large bowl whisk together the sour cream, all-purpose flour, salt, eggs and vanilla extract. Add apple slices and toss to coat. Dump into the prepared pie crust.

In a second bowl combine the brown sugar, flour and cinnamon with a fork. Add the melted butter and stir to combine. Use your hands to crumble the topping on top of the pie.

Place the pie on a sheet pan and bake until topping is golden and filling is set and slightly bubbles at the edges, about 1 hour. If topping browns before filling is set, cover with foil for the remainder of baking time. Let pie cool to room temperature before serving.