Apple caramel praline pie
ngredients for Praline filling:
8 apples (Macintosh, Jonathon, Granny Smith or favorite baking apple)
2 tablespoons flour or cornstarch
1/2 cup butter
2/3 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup heavy sweet cream
Directions for filling:
1. Peel, core and slice apples and place in a large bowl.
2. In a medium saucepan, combine butter, brown sugar and flour. Place on stove over medium heat, stir until mixture bubbles. Add heavy cream. Stir constantly until mixture returns to a boil. Remove from heat.
3. Pour over sliced apples until coated and set aside.
Ingredients for Caramelized Pecan and Crumb Topping:
1 cup chopped pecans
1/4 cup butter
1/4 cup brown sugar
Directions for Caramelized Pecan and Crumb Topping:
1. Put nuts, sugar and butter in small saut� pan over medium heat and stir until caramelized.
2. Remove from heat and pour out on parchment paper to cool.
Ingredients for Crumb Topping:
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup flour
1/4 cup white sugar
Directions for Crumb Topping
Cut in all three ingredients with pie blender to make a coarse crumb consistency.
Directions for pie:
1. Pour coated apples into prepared crust.
2. Sprinkle caramelized pecans over apples.
3. Sprinkle crumb topping over apples and caramelized pecans
4. Place a tinfoil tent over pie to prevent top and crusts from becoming too brown before apples are tender in the middle. Place in a 325-degree oven. Bake for 1 hour. Remove tin foil tent last 10 minutes of baking if a browner crust is desired.
Cool on wire rack completely.
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