The Best Dutch Apple Pie (Crumble Topping) Recipe

4.50 from 6 votes

The Best Dutch Apple Pie (Crumble Topping) Recipe

Brown sugar cookie crust filled with a homemade apple pie filling and covered in a crumble topping make the Best Apple Pie Recipe you will ever taste.

Prep Time30

Cook Time45

Total Time1 15

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Keyword: apple pie, Easy Pie recipe, pie, Thanksgiving dessert

Servings:

Calories: 528kcal

Equipment

pie pan
Large Mixing Bowl

Ingredients

Crust:

2 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup brown sugar
¾ cup butter cold
½ cup quick oats

Filling:

⅔ cup sugar
3 Tablespoons cornstarch
1 ¼ cups water
5-6 Granny Smith apples peeled, cored, and sliced or diced
1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
¼ teaspoon nutmeg
¼ teaspoon ground ginger
¼ teaspoon allspice

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
In a large bowl, mix together flour, brown sugar, butter and oats with a pastry blender. Set aside one cup of mixture for crumb topping.
Press the remaining crumb mixture into an ungreased 9-inch pie pan; set aside.
In a sauce pan, combine sugar, cornstarch and water over medium-high heat.
Bring to a boil and let boil for 2 minutes, whisking constantly (it will thicken up quickly so it's important to keep stirring the whole time!).
Remove from heat and fold in apples, vanilla, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, and allspice.
Pour apple mixture into prepared crust and sprinkle seet-aside crumb topping on top.
Bake for 40-50 minutes, or until topping is golden brown and apples are tender.
Let cool before serving.

Notes

One of the most popular baking apples is Granny Smith. It’s tart, tangy and perfectly firm to use in apple pie.
If you are looking for a sweeter apple, try Honeycrisp, Braeburn or Jonathan apples.
You could make this pie a day in advance and it would still taste amazing.

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