Easy Pleasy Apple Pie

This one’s easy, because I use refrigerated premade crust that I get at the supermarket … most likely Pillsbury. All you have to do is mix the dry ingredients and add them to the apples. Then, pour everything into the crust and bake.

I use two types of apples – Granny Smith for tartness and body, and Fuji for sweetness.

Ingredients

• BROWN SUGAR, ¾ cup, light (or white sugar will do as well)
• FLOUR, ¼ cup, all-purpose
• SALT, ¼ teaspoon
• CINNAMON, ¾ teaspoon, ground
• NUTMEG, to taste
• APPLES, 3 Fuji + 3 Granny Smith
• LEMON, 1, zest + juice
• BUTTER, 3 tablespoons, cold and diced
• EGG WASH
• SUGAR, to sprinkle on top crust

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 400°F.
2. Mix sugar, flour, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg in a bowl and set aside.
3. Peel, core, and cut apples into wedges.
4. Sprinkle with lemon juice to prevent browning, and toss.
5. Evenly coat the apples with the sugar mixture, sprinkling in some lemon zest if you are so inclined, otherwise, keep the zest for another recipe in the future.
6. Line a 9-inch pie tin with one crust.
7. Mound the apples in the crusted pie pan.
8. Dot the apples with the diced butter.
9. Cover with the second crust and seal the pie by crimping around the circumference.
10. Cut four 2-inch slits in the top, radiating outward from about an inch or two from the center.
11. Brush top with egg wash and sprinkle on some cinnamon and sugar.
12. Bake on center rack for 45 minutes, take out of oven and let the pie rest for 20 minutes.