Kentucky Bourbon Apple Pie
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1 cup all-purpose flour
2 Tbsp. sugar
1/4 tsp. salt
1 pkg. (3 oz.) cream cheese, cubed
1/2 cup unsalted butter, cubed
6 cup peeled, thinly sliced
cooking apples (2 lb.)
1 cup plus 3 Tbsp. sugar
6 Tbsp. all-purpose flour
3 eggs
3/4 cup butter, melted
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
2 Tbsp. bourbon
confectioners sugar (optional)
Combine flour, sugar and salt with pastry blender or 2 knives used
scissor fashion. Cut in cream cheese and butter until mixture
resembles coarse crumbs. Knead pastry into a ball. Flatten slightly.
Cover and refrigerate one hour. Roll out pastry between sheets of
waxed paper. Peel off top paper. Invert into a 9-inch deep dish
pie plate. Remove paper and flute edge. Refrigerate pastry shell
at least one hour.
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Arrange apples in pastry shell. In
medium bowl combine sugar, flour and eggs. Stir with wire whisk
until smooth. Slowly stir in melted butter, then walnuts and bourbon.
Pour over apples. Bake 60 minutes. Cool. Before serving, sprinkle
top with confectioners sugar, if desired. Makes 8 servings, about
595 calories each!
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