The Best Apple Crumble Pie Recipe: Tasty & Easy To Make
This apple crumble pie combines tender, cinnamon-spiced apples with a buttery, crumbly topping, all nestled in a flaky pie crust. It's an easy-to-make dessert that captures the warmth and comfort of classic autumn flavors. Serve warm with a scoop of vanilla ice cream for an extra treat!
Equipment
- 1 Pan/Skillet
- Mixing Bowls
- 1 9-inch Pie Crust/Shell or Baking Pan
- 1 Potato Peeler optional
- 1 Apple Slicer optional
Ingredients
Pie Crust
- 1 9-inch Pie Shell I use Keebler Graham cracker pie shells. Even better if you use Pillsbury pie crusts.
Apple Pie Filling
- 2 tbsp Lemon juice
- 4 Apples
- 1/2 cup Dark Brown Sugar
- 1/4 cup Granulated Sugar
- 1/3 cup All Purpose Flour
- 1½ tsp Cinnamon
- ½ tsp Salt
- ¼ tsp Nutmeg
- 1 tsp Vanilla
Crumb Pie Topping
- ¾ cup All Purpose Flour
- ½ cup Dark Brown Sugar
- 1 tsp Cinnamon
- ½ tsp Salt
- ½ cup Butter, melted 1 stick of butter
Instructions
Making The Apple Filling
- Using either juice from a lemon or bottled lemon juice, add the 2 tbsp of lemon juice to a pan.
- Peel one apple with a potato peeler and then slice with apple slicer and throw away the core. Cut those slices up into tiny small pieces, making sure no skin is left on the apple.
- Then place into the pan (stove NOT turned on yet) with the lemon juice. The lemon is intended to help prevent the apples from browning too quickly.
- Repeat this step with the other apples, peeling and cutting up one at a time and placing into pan. Mix around the apples in the lemon juice.Refrain from adding more lemon juice as we don't want a lemony apple pie.
- Once all the apples are cut and in the pan, turn on the stove at medium heat. Add brown sugar, granulated sugar, flour, salt, nutmeg, and cinnamon.
- Mix around evenly until the mixture feels a bit thicker similar to the picture.
- Turn stove off and let the apples sit with a lid cover while preparing the crumble.
- Preheat the oven to 350 ℉.
Making Crumb Pie Topping
- To a mixing bowl, add 1 cup flour, ½ cup sugar, 1 tsp cinnamon, ½ tsp salt and mix.
- Then melt butter in a separate bowl in the microwave or on the stove. Don't use it while it's super hot, allow it to cool for a little before using OR don't let the butter melt all the way, let it melt slightly then mix the butter away from heat source and use it.
- Pour butter into the mixing bowl of flour, sugar, salt, and cinnamon. Mix until crumbles form. Once the crumble forms, I slightly shake the bowl up and down to toss the crumbles around and get the flour from underneath.
Back to the Filling
- Add the 1 tsp of vanilla to the pan of apples and mix around in the pan. Try one to see if the apples are softened to your liking, if not let it sit for another couple minutes with lid on.
- Add the apple filling to the pie shell. The pie shell usually comes in a foil pan you can place right into the oven. If you're using pie dough, you'll need a 9-inch round baking pan.
- Add the crumble on top of the apples in the pie shell.
- Place in the oven at 350℉ for 15 - 20 minutes.
- Take out and enjoy with a scoop of vanilla ice cream!
