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Sour Cream Apple Pie

4.7

(50)

Recipe information

  • Yield

    Makes one (10-inch) pie

Ingredients

For crust

1 3/4 cups all purpose flour
1/4 cup sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons (1 1/4 sticks) chilled butter
1/4 cup ice water or cold apple cider

For filling

8 Mcintosh apples, peeled, cored, and sliced
1 2/3 cups sour cream
1 cup sugar
1/3 cup all purpose flour
1 egg
2 teaspoons vanilla
1/2 teaspoon salt

For topping

1 cup chopped walnuts
1/2 cup all purpose flour
1/3 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1/3 cup granulated sugar
1 tablespoon cinnamon
pinch of salt
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, room temperature

Preparation

  1. Make crust:

    Step 1

    Combine flour, sugar, cinnamon, and salt in medium bowl. Cut in butter using pastry blender or 2 knives until mixture resembles coarse meal. Add water and toss mixture gently with fork until evenly moistened. Gather gently into ball. Transfer to lightly floured board and roll into circle slightly larger than a deep 10-inch pie plate. Ease pastry into pan and flute a high edge. Set aside.

  2. Make filling:

    Step 2

    Preheat oven to 450°F. Combine apples, sour cream, sugar, flour, egg, vanilla, and salt in large bowl and mix well. Spoon into crust. Bake 10 minutes. Reduce oven temperature to 350°F and continue baking until filling is slightly puffed and golden brown, about 40 minutes. (If edges of crust begin to brown too quickly, cover with strips of aluminum foil.)

  3. Make topping:

    Step 3

    Meanwhile, combine walnuts, flour, sugars, cinnamon, and salt in medium bowl and mix well. Blend in butter until mixture is crumbly. Spoon over pie and bake 15 minutes longer.

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