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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 sauté 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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