Most pie crusts are not kid friendly recipes! All that rolling and carefully adding chilled butter! However, we recently received a great apple pie recipe ever kid can help make!
It’s really ugly — but really delicious.
I wanted to make apple pie with some of the 40 lbs of apples from our recent apple picking trip and a fellow mom gave me this recipe. The dough for this recipe requires no rolling or futzing around with ice water and cold butter. This was great, because I really hate rolling dough. It was so simple that Kiddo could do most of the work for the dough while I cut the apples. I also love that helping make a sweet treat can be a cover for teaching fractions.
For the crust:
2 1/2 cups flour: all purpose, whole wheat pastry or combination of the two
2 TBSP sugar
1/2 c oil (next time I am going to use cooled melted butter)
1/3 c milk
For the filling:
1/2 c sugar
2 TBSP flour
1 tsp cinnamon (I also think cardamon would be lovely — my favorite spice!)
about 6 cups chopped apples (I never peel them, do you?)
preheat oven to 375
prepare the crust:
stir together milk and oil; mix flour, sugar and salt in large bowl, add milk and oil with a fork until it all comes together, adding a bit more oil if too dry. Using hands, form ball and divide into two. Tear off pieces of dough and press into bottom and sides of pan.
prepare the filling:
stir dry ingredients together and toss with apples
Tear off pieces of second dough ball and smash flat. Kiddo used the bottom of a glass. Place smashed pieces over top of apples.
Bake 60 minutes. You will probably want to cover pie with foil for last 15 minutes to keep from burning top crust.
Enjoy!
Adriana says
That looks like so much fun! Thanks for sharing!
Valerie says
There is no such thing as an ugly apple pie. Mmmm…. yummy! We made lots of pies and pie filling with the apples we picked too. I love how the house smells after baking an apple pie.