Crunchy Caramel Apple Pie

[TransplantShock]

YUMMY! I just found a recipie....havent tried it yet but it sounds delish! I soooo am going to have to try this :)

[boo]

<_< Are you going to share the recipe or was the point of this post to make us jealous?

[TransplantShock]

When I make it I will share if it is any good. But yeah, I wanted you to get jeolous :lol:

[gardenlady]

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

[terese]

That's just cruel TPS :P

1 pastry crust for a deep-dish pie 9-inch (homemade or store-bought)
1/2 cup sugar
3 Tbsp. all-purpose flour
1 tsp. ground cinnamon
1/8 tsp salt
6 cups thinly sliced peeled apples
1 recipe crumb topping (see below)
1/2 cup chopped pecans
1/4 cup caramel topping


Ingredients for the Crumb Topping

1 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 cup quick cooking rolled oats
1/2 cup butter

Directions for the Crumb Topping

Directions for Crumb Topping: 1. Stir together brown sugar,flour, rolled oats.

2. Cut in 1/2 cup butter until topping is like course crumbs. Set aside.

Directions for the Pie

1. In a large mixing bowl, stir together the sugar, flour, cinnamon and salt.

2. Add apple slices and gently toss until coated.

3. Transfer apple mixture to the pie shell (I remove the store-bought pie shell from the aluminum pie plate and transfer it to a 9-inch pie plate of my own, but you do not have to.)

4. Sprinkle crumb topping over apple mixture.

5. Place pie on a cookie sheet so the drippings don't drop into your oven.

6. Cover edges of pie with aluminum foil.

7. Bake in a preheated 375 oven for 25 minutes. Then remove foil and put back in for another 25 to 30 minutes without foil.

8. Remove from oven. Sprinkle pie with chopped pecans then drizzle with caramel on top.

9. Cool on a wire rack and enjoy warm or at room temperature.

[MaryG]

Although I didn't make the crunchy caramel recipe I did make a fresh apple pie today. I LOVE frozen pastry shells! As I was looking through my box of apples from our tree I noticed a lot that weren't nice enough for lunches but still pretty good apples. Why waste them? My DH peeled the apples and I chopped them and baked the pie. It makes a good treat for his lunches.

[erdine]

terese, talk about being cruel. :lol: that sounds so good, I've been craving something sweet and yummy.

[donybee]

Great recipe terese, I would substitute a packet of Quaker Apples and Cinnamon Rolled oats in the crumb recipe, bet it would really make it good.

[terese]

Oppss...i can't take the credit for this recipe...it was on GMA a while back.

[donybee]

Never the less it is delicious!! :D ;) :D ;) :D

[MaryG]

Boo hoo - a couple of weeks ago my freezer got unplugged somehow and was without power overnight. I discovered it the next morning and plugged it back in but I noticed some of the bags of fruit had thawed. I just left them in there thinking that if they got frozen again all would be well.

It wasn't.

Today I made an apple pie and it looked OK but I just tried a piece and the apples had swollen up like sponges and tasted about as good as a sponge soaked with dishwater would. It was awful - into the garbage can went an entire freshly baked apple pie.

Boo hoo.

[DandyLioness]

OH NO, Mary! After all of your efforts! I'm sorry to hear that.

Someone told me to keep a few ice cubes in a little baggie in the freezer. If your power goes out for an extended period of time, and then back on - when you're away from home --- the little baggie of ice cubes will be a melded chunck of ice.

I thought that it was good advice.

[MaryG]

That is good advice. I guess tomorrow I should go through the fruit in the freezer and throw out the other bags of chopped apples and anything else that looks "iffy". I hate wasting good food especially if we've grown it ourselves.

[boo]

Oh, I did something like that yesterday. <_< Taco Johns forgot to give us new hot sauce packets so I used a couple old ones that had been in our fridge from forever (Yes, Virginia sauce packets go bad) on my tacos. :o Nasty taste. I totally ruined my tacos & I'm not sure if I will ever be able to eat another taco again.

:unsure: :unsure: Ok, I guess that is nothing like your story, but it's funny what bad apples made me think of.

I'm sorry that happen to your apples Mary. That's a good idea about the ice.

[MaryG]

Too bad about your tacos. Yeah, when you eat something that's gone "off" it's a long time until you can eat it again. I'm that way about eggnog. It wasn't bad when I drank it last but I was super thirsty and guzzled down a huge beer mug full of eggnog and ever since then I can't look at it.

Hint people: empty stomach + huge beermug of eggnog = nausea.

[terese]

Awww.... that's too bad about your pie amd the freezer Mary. -_-

Too bad about your tacos Boo...that reminds me...i need to clean out my fridge. -_-