Grammy's Kitchen · Apple Pie · Best Apple Pie
One of 64 apple pie recipes we measured
from joyfoodsunshine.com
13 cooks on joyfoodsunshine.com rate it 5.0★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 64.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| fat | 70% | 14% |
| liquid | 41% | 3% |
| total sugar | 39% | 54% |
| egg | 16% | 10% |
| dairy | 5% | 0% |
| salt | 2% | 0% |
Adapts cleanly: dairy-free, egg-free, gluten-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| 1588 g | 10 cups sliced apples (peeled, cored and sliced (about 3.5 lbs)) |
| 100 g | 1/2 cup granulated sugar |
| 22 g | 3 Tablespoons all-purpose flour |
| 6 g | 2 Teaspoons ground cinnamon |
| Dash of nutmeg (optional) | |
| 300 g | 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour |
| 6 g | 1 teaspoon sea salt |
| 25 g | 2 Tablespoons granulated sugar |
| 227 g | 1 cup butter (COLD, cut into 1 inch pieces) |
| 118 g | 1/2 cup ice cold water |
| 50 g | 1 egg (beaten) |
| 15 g | 1 Tablespoon milk |
Method: 16 steps, published by joyfoodsunshine.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“I’m asking for help and advice. Anytime I make an all butter crust the butter oozes out of dough when I bake it. I’m left with a hard crust that I can pick up in one piece. It’s thrown away for sure. I’ve used cubed butter put in freezer x15 minutes, place ” — a cook, 5.0★
“This was super easy to make. I baked it for an extra 10 minutes to get it a nice brown color on top and heated it up at 350 degrees the next night for 20 minutes or so for a party. I wasn't sure how it would taste becasue the apples looked pretty firm under th” — a cook, 5.0★