Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Making Marie's Apple Pie


(all photos by Scott Snyder) 

On Monday, I had the pleasure of making Marie's wonderful Apple Crumble Pie - the recipe can be found on her blog, A Year From Oak Cottage
My dear husband and my mom Charlotte - my pie making assistant - LOVED this pie! Scott says it is better than my usual, and he was a pretty big fan of my previous apple pies. So I suppose I will be using Marie's recipe from now on! The only thing I added was a dash of ground cloves to the apple mixture and some pats of butter to dot the top of the apples once in the pie crust, but before the crumb topping was added.
These three top pictures are the before shots, with a delicious mound of crumbs toppling over in a blessed heap.
And this is the after. Browned beautifully. I cooked the pie on 375 Fahrenheit - about 25 minutes, then added foil to cover the outer crust, and cooked an additional 20ish minutes until I could hear the filling bubbling under the crumbs.
Deeeeee-licious! With Boston Vanilla Bean ice cream alongside, we had a slice of heaven on a Monday night. We enjoyed this pie while watching "Milk," a film I highly recommend.

Thanks for sharing your recipe, Marie! We all loved it!
~Ally

2 comments:

Marie Rayner said...

Oh Allison, you made my day!! I am so happy that you all enjoyed this pie! I personally think that each recipe I post is delicious, but often wonder if it is just me . . . It's so wonderful when I find out that somebody else enjoys them too, and most especially when it is a special friend like you! Loved all the pictures, but especially the last one! You GO girl! XXOO

Anonymous said...

The pie was indeed outstanding. Great photos, Scott!
XO, Mom