You’ll love this up to date model of a basic: salted caramel apple pie. It has all the taste you’re keen on from caramel apples, with the added bonus of a buttery, flaky pie crust. It’s all the time one of many top-rated Thanksgiving pies on my web site, however you don’t want to attend for a particular vacation to make it. High every slice with vanilla ice cream for a dessert that goals are made from!

This is likely one of the first pie recipes I initially printed on my web site, again in 2013. And it’s nonetheless considered one of my absolute favorites! I make it each Thanksgiving, together with pumpkin pie.

Right here’s Why You’ll Love This Salted Caramel Apple Pie

• Cinnamon-spiced apples
• Additional additional apple filling (pile it excessive!)
• Buttery, flaky golden pie crust
• Candy, salty, gooey salted caramel (want I say extra?)
• Tastes superb with vanilla ice cream

There are 3 elements to this pie. It’s fairly much like my common apple pie, however with salted caramel inside and on prime. (Probably the most flavorful addition!) First, now we have the buttery, flaky pie crust, then the cinnamon-spiced apples, and at last the salted caramel. Let’s begin with the crust. Have you ever ever made pie dough from scratch earlier than?

Begin With High quality Pie Dough

Pie crust could be tough, however it doesn’t must be. It’s made with a number of easy components. Flour, salt, chilly water, and fats. You can also make pie crust with shortening or with butter. Why shortening? Shortening aids in creating flakiness. Flaky, tender, melt-in-your mouth crust. Why butter? Butter imparts unparalleled, impeccable taste. Nothing beats butter in relation to taste!

My favourite pie crust recipe makes use of each, for the most effective of each worlds. Flaky, tender, buttery pie crust constructed from shortening AND butter. And if you happen to’re searching for an all-butter pie dough, right here is my favourite recipe for all-butter pie crust.

Every of those pie dough recipe posts features a useful video tutorial, step-by-step photographs, and many troubleshooting ideas.

#1 Pie Crust Success Tip

Hold the pie dough chilly everytime you aren’t working with it. Go away the pie dough within the fridge when you make the apple filling.

Finest Filling Substances to Use & Why

• Apples: You want about 8 giant apples. Identical to after we make apple cake, I like to recommend utilizing half tart and half candy. I like tart Granny Smith apples paired with a candy selection corresponding to Pink Woman, Honeycrisp, Jazz, or Fuji. You get extra complicated taste in every chunk whenever you use a combo.
• Sugar: Use granulated sugar to sweeten the apple pie filling. You don’t want an excessive amount of, as a result of additionally, you will be including the sweetness of the salted caramel.
• Lemon: A squeeze of lemon is essential in apple pies. Not sufficient to style the lemon, however simply sufficient to forestall the apples from browning and to maintain the flavour brilliant. (Apple pies can style slightly flat with out it.) For these causes, I additionally use lemon in my apple cinnamon babka recipe.
• Flour: Flour thickens the pie filling, turning the juices right into a gooey filling that units up, for a superbly sliceable pie. I don’t use cornstarch right here, flour is my best choice. I want cornstarch for berry pies, like this blueberry pie.
• Spices: Cinnamon and nutmeg add unparalleled taste. For added heat, add some allspice or cloves. You possibly can actually use both; they’re like a comfy hug on your tastebuds. 😉
• Salted Caramel: You should use store-bought caramel sauce or you may make this well-liked home made salted caramel sauce. I like to recommend home made; my recipe is salty, candy, and irresistibly buttery. You make it on the range with solely 4 easy components, and a couple of of these components are additionally used within the filling and the crust (sugar and butter). No sweet thermometer required, and you may make the caramel upfront, or whereas your pie dough is chilling.

By the way in which, here’s a full record of the most effective apples for baking.

These Step-by-Step Photographs Will Assist

My pie crust recipe makes sufficient dough for a double-crusted pie. Begin by rolling out your backside pie crust (about 12 inches in diameter) and becoming it right into a 9-inch pie dish.

Subsequent, add the apple filling to the crust. Chances are you’ll assume, “There may be method an excessive amount of filling, it received’t match!” However it’ll, I promise. Pile it excessive.

Now pour about 1/2 cup of salted caramel over the apples.

Take the remaining chilled pie dough out of the fridge. Roll it out right into a 12- to 14-inch-diameter circle. I wish to make a lattice pie crust for the highest. I used 18 strips of pie dough to lattice and so they have been about 1/2—3/4 inch thick… 9 strips going every method. Crimp the pie crust edges with a fork, to seal in all that caramel-apple goodness.

Earlier than baking, brush the highest with an egg wash, for that golden sheen, then sprinkle with coarse sugar, for slightly sparkle and crunch. That is precisely how I end off blueberry pie, too!

Different Topping Choices

In fact, you should use thicker strips like I used for this peach pie, or a mix of thick and skinny strips like I used on this cherry pie. You would additionally attempt one thing additional ornamental by studying Methods to Braid Pie Crust or following my Pie Crust Designs Tutorial.

Or… be happy to skip the highest crust totally (save the opposite half of the pie dough for a pumpkin pie!) and use the oat streusel topping from this blueberry crumble pie or the crumb topping from this apple crumble pie. I typically like to combine this recipe with that topping!

As soon as the pie filling is effervescent, and the crust is golden brown, the pie is completed. Look forward to the pie to chill utterly, after which you may slice and serve. As all the time, you may serve with a scoop of vanilla ice cream and because you’ll have some leftover, add a drizzle of salted caramel on prime. These are the *chef’s kiss* good ending touches to your salted caramel apple pie.

Salted Caramel Apple Pie Success Ideas

1. Uniform Apple Slices: Do your greatest to chop the apple slices to be all the identical thickness. Why? You don’t need some thick strong apples and a few skinny mushy apples. You need all of them to bake right into a deliciously soft-yet-crisp texture. Purpose for about 1/4-inch-thick slices.
2. Chilly Pie Dough: Hold all the pie dough you aren’t immediately working with within the fridge. Heat or room-temperature pie dough is unimaginable to roll and deal with.
3. Make-Forward Salted Caramel: You can also make the salted caramel upfront, and refrigerate for as much as 1 month or freeze for as much as 3 months. Thaw within the fridge or at room temperature, then warmth it up earlier than utilizing. After refrigerating, the caramel might be chilly and strong, so that you’ll must heat it as much as deliver it again to a liquid consistency you may pour over the pie.

Beneficial Instruments

You should definitely try my prime 10 greatest pie baking instruments, however listed below are a number of particular instruments I like to recommend for making this salted caramel apple pie:

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