![]() Sanding sugaris a coarse sugar comprised of extra large crystals that will not melt in the oven, making it an ideal garnish for sprinkling on cookies, pie crusts, and other crispy topped baked goods. Macintosh apples are sweet apples with a red and green skin that become soft and juicy when baked, complementing the tarter, firmer granny smith apples. They’re perfect in this recipe for giving the pie filling a bright flavor and lending more dimension and texture to the macintosh apples, which tend to be more juicy, soft, and sweet. Granny smith apples are tart, green apples that tend to stay firm and dry out a little bit in the oven. This step allows you to pile even more apples into the pie – almost twice as many than if you didn’t macerate! Macerating the apples also helps to prevent or minimize the possibility of a pocket of air between the fruit filling and the top crust. Macerating the apples before baking allows the apples to release some of their moisture, softening the apples and causing them shrink a little. ![]() If it is shiny, it needs more time in the oven. The weights will prevent the shell from bubbling or puffing up as it bakes.īake until the entire crust is a light, matte, golden color, making sure to check under the weights too. To blind bake a pie crust, simply line your unbaked pie shell with parchment paper and fill with weights (these can be anything from commercially made pie weights to uncooked dry beans or rice), pressing down lightly on the weights to ensure the shell is evenly and entirely filled. Pre-baking ensures the crust is fully baked, and is not gummy and under baked. There are 2 main techniques behind this recipe that make it a real success:īlind baking the crust is a technique where an empty pie or tart shell is baked before the filling is added. However, the components of the pie aren’t overly complicated (just when put all together it can look a little overwhelming) and can be done in parts on different days (make the dough for the crust on one day, bake the pie on another), so that alleviates a lot of the stress!Įven if you’ve never made a pie before, I encourage you to try this one out, because apple pie is pretty forgiving as far as pies go, and is a great way to get into all the joys and deliciousness that is pie-making! About the recipe: ![]() I admit, that though this pie uses very simple ingredients, it’s not the easiest dessert to make because there are quite a few steps – mainly because this recipe calls for making the crust as well as the filling from scratch… With the winter holiday season upon us, I thought it would be a perfect time to share with you a classic dessert that not only shows up in various forms in anime all the time, but that also uses seasonal fruit available in the colder months of the year. Packed full of tender, juicy, and slightly tart apples all wrapped up in a crispy, buttery crust, my favorite fall/winter fruit dessert has to be the crowd-pleasing apple pie! Sometimes you just crave a little fruit in the winter, but it can be hard to find a dessert that is perfect for that time of year when summer fruits and berries such as strawberries, peaches, or apricots are simply not in season….
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