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Easy Apple Pie Recipe
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Thomas Sixt is a chef, food photographer, cookbook author and blogger.
Here he shares recipes, answers cooking questions and helps with cooking.
At this point I would like to introduce you to my simple apple pie recipe.
My apple pie comes in a classic version and is incredibly popular.
As soon as summer is over, harvest time follows.
Our local apple is now available to us fresh from the end of August to the end of October, depending on the apple variety.
Luckily, the apple can be stored well and we can enjoy it for much longer.
I love the local apples and would like to recommend them to you for the cake.
Flying apples should remain the exception, since from an ecological point of view this is regrettable.
Now to my recipe: I’d be happy to let you look over my shoulder. Follow me as presented and have fun!
Table of Contents
1. Recipe Apple Pie
Simple Apple Pie
Baked, photographed and written down by chef Thomas Sixt.
Servings 6
Calories 266
Total Time 0 Min.
Preparation Time 35 Min.
Cook Time 0 Min.
Simple instructions for fine, quick, juicy cake with apples bake. Detailed photo gallery accompanies to the best baking result.
![Apple pie recipe image](https://images.thomassixt.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/apple-pie-recipe-image-1200x800.jpg)
Ingredients
apple topping | ||
1 | pc | Lemon (abrasion + juice) |
6 | pc | Apple (I used Elstar) |
0,2 | l | cold water |
apple marinade | ||
2 | tbsp | brown can sugar |
2 | tsp | cinnamon |
2 | tbsp | Calvados |
dough | ||
60 | g | butter (For baking tin) |
200 | g | flour |
125 | g | brown can sugar |
125 | g | butter |
1 | paket | vanilla sugar |
2 | pc | eggs |
2 | tsp | Baking Powder |
2 | tbsp | milk (optional) |
glaze | ||
2 | tbsp | apricot marmelade (Optional is also apricot jelly) |
2 | tbsp. | Calvados |
Instruction
![Ingredients for apple pie](https://images.thomassixt.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/ingredients-apple-pie-baking-1200x800.jpg)
Provide ingredients
Prepare the ingredients for the apple slices:
–> Apples, lemon, calvados, quince jelly.
For the dough:
–> Sugar, eggs, soft butter at room temperature, vanilla sugar, lemon zest, flour and baking powder.
![Apple pie baking tools](https://images.thomassixt.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/bakingtools-apple-pie-1200x800.jpg)
Provide tools
All equipment for the preparation at a glance:
-> Kitchen scales, mixing bowl, blender, juicer, grater, spatula and
–> Baking pan with a diameter of 28 cm (here a copper pan with 2 handles ).
Heat up the oven at 190 degrees circulating air!
![Grate lemon zest](https://images.thomassixt.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/grate-lemon-peel-1200x800.jpg)
Lemon zest
Grate lemon zest from an organic lemon.
The grater I showed tends to rip zest, hence the next step (otherwise skip the next step with a fine grater).
![Finely chop the lemon zest](https://images.thomassixt.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/lemon-peel-finely-cut-1200x800.jpg)
Chop zest
If necessary, finely chop the abrasion with a sharp knife.
Squeeze lemon juice from the used lemon.
Set aside for the apples as an antioxidant.
![Prepare apples](https://images.thomassixt.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/preparing-to-cut-apple-1200x800.jpg)
Prepare apples
Quarter, core and peel the apples and cut the quarters into 2-3 mm thick wedges.
Add lemon juice to the apple slices with a cup of cold water.
![Season apple pieces](https://images.thomassixt.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/apple-pieces-cinnamon-sugar-calvados-1200x800.jpg)
Season apples
When all the apples are peeled and cut, remove the lemon water.
Marinate with Calvados, brown sugar and cinnamon.
![Marinate apple pieces](https://images.thomassixt.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/marinated-apple-pieces-1200x800.jpg)
Marinate apples
If the wedges of apples are covered with marinade, they are briefly placed in the refrigerator.
![Butter the universal pan](https://images.thomassixt.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/universal-pan-butter-1200x800.jpg)
Butter pan
Grease the baking pan well with butter.
This can be done with a pastry brush, kitchen towel or a clean hand.
I used the universal pan with two handles from Jan.
![flour with sieve](https://images.thomassixt.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/flour-with-sieve-1200x800.jpg)
Prepare flour
Sift the flour and set aside.
![Sugar and butter in bowl](https://images.thomassixt.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/sugar-butter-in-bowl-1200x800.jpg)
Make dough
Put the sugar and butter in the baking pan.
![Mix together the sugar and butter](https://images.thomassixt.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/sugar-butter-mixing-cake-dough-1200x800.jpg)
Stir dough
Add vanilla sugar and lemon zest.
Mix the sugar and butter with the aromatics.
![Add eggs to sugar and butter](https://images.thomassixt.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/add-eggs-to-sugar-butter-1200x800.jpg)
Add eggs
Beat the eggs into the batter one at a time.
![Beat eggs with sugar and butter.](https://images.thomassixt.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/eggs-sugar-butter-mixed-1200x800.jpg)
Control dough
Stir for a good 2 minutes until the ingredients are combined.
![flour with baking powder](https://images.thomassixt.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/flour-with-baking-powder-1200x800.jpg)
Prepare flour
Add flour with a level teaspoon of baking powder.
![Mix cake batter with flour](https://images.thomassixt.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/cake-dough-with-flour-1200x800.jpg)
Stir flour
Gradually add flour with baking powder to the mixture and mix until smooth.
Optionally add a little milk.
The firmer the dough falls from the spoon, the less the apples sink.
![Pour in the apple pie batter](https://images.thomassixt.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/apple-pie-dough-filling-1200x800.jpg)
Fill dough
Pour the batter into the greased baking pan.
![Filled with cake batter](https://images.thomassixt.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/apple-cake-dough-filled-in-1200x800.jpg)
Smooth dough
Spread the batter evenly in the mold with the spatula.
![Cake dough topped with apple pieces](https://images.thomassixt.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/apple-pie-before-baking-1200x800.jpg)
Put apple
Spread the marinated apple slices in a circle on the dough like bricks.
Leave about 1 cm around the edge.
The cake goes into the oven for a good 30 minutes and bakes at 180-190 degrees circulating air (with top/bottom heat a good 200 degrees).
![Glaze quince jam and calvados](https://images.thomassixt.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/quince-marmelade-calvados-for-glazing-1200x800.jpg)
Prepare glaze
Slightly dilute the quince jelly with a spoonful of Calvados.
![Freshly baked apple pie](https://images.thomassixt.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/apple-pie-fresh-from-the-oven-1200x800.jpg)
Glaze cake
Glaze the baked cake thinly with the jelly/calvados mixture.
Please use a pastry brush for this.
![Apple pie recipe image](https://images.thomassixt.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/apple-pie-recipe-image-1-1200x800.jpg)
Serve
Serve the apple pie with a little vanilla sauce.
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2. Calories And Nutritional Values
You can find the apple pie calories calculated below in the table.
3. Apple Pie Baking Tips
Some tips for your apple pie baking day….
Prepare apples for apple pie:
For quick peeling of apples, I quarter them first, then cut out the core and nimbly peel the quarters with a simple fruit knife.
Apples are peeled and cut and quickly brown when exposed to air. Lemon juice mixed with 3 times as much water is therefore indispensable.
When the apple slices are turned in it, they stay light.
I like marinating, here with Calvados, sugar and cinnamon.
For this I remove almost all the lemon water in advance.
Then I add my marinade to the apple slices and let them steep in it.
![Prepare apples](https://images.thomassixt.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/preparing-to-cut-apple-1024x683.jpg)
![Season apple pieces](https://images.thomassixt.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/apple-pieces-cinnamon-sugar-calvados-1024x683.jpg)
Prepare apple pie dough:
Whether you prepare the dough first or the apples first is philosophy.
Both have advantages. If the apples are first, they can marinate longer.
If the dough is first, I can put it in the refrigerator for a short time after preparation so that it regains firmness and my apples don’t sink into it.
Keep in mind: dough with baking powder should be baked relatively quickly.
For the dough it is important to stir at least two or three times:
- the soft butter-sugar-egg mix (plus additions such as vanilla sugar),
- supplement the first part with sifted flour and baking powder (first one part of flour, then stir, then the remaining flour and stir again).
![Pour in the apple pie batter](https://images.thomassixt.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/apple-pie-dough-filling-1024x683.jpg)
![flour with sieve](https://images.thomassixt.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/flour-with-sieve-1024x683.jpg)
Preheat oven for apple pie:
Really preheat the oven long enough. Turning it on late will distort the baking time.
Never rely on timers in baking recipes, but set your timer 5-10 minutes shorter and check your baking results in the oven.
Remember: Every oven heats differently!
![baking time cake](https://images.thomassixt.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/baking-time-cake-1024x683.jpg)
![needle sample](https://images.thomassixt.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/holzspiess-Nadelprobe-1024x683.jpg)
Apple pie with gloss or topping:
If you like, you can also 10 minutes before the end of baking time, in a pan with sugar caramelized coarsely chopped walnuts over the almost finished apple pie in the oven and bake to finish.
Here I have the finished cake with homemade quince jelly plus a spoonful of Calvados stirred, glazed over.
Instead of quince jelly is also suitable apricot jelly or in a pinch orange jelly. Quince fits a bit better – I think.
To serve the apple pie, you can serve vanilla sauce, as I do.
Classically, the cake also tastes very fine with whipped cream. Vanilla ice cream is also popular as an accompaniment to apple pie.
I am lucky, Mrs. Sixt is also satisfied with the cake. We had a lengthy discussion about the amount of apples. Mrs. Sixt always likes more apples I tend to less.
![cut walnuts](https://images.thomassixt.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/walnuesse-schneiden-150x150-1.jpg)
![caramelized walnuts](https://images.thomassixt.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/walnuesse-karamellisiert-auf-papier-150x150-1-1024x683.jpg)
4. FAQ Apple Pie
Häufige Fragen rund um den Apfelkuchen sind hier zusammengefasst:
How to make a quick apple pie?
How can I marinate apple pie apples?
At what stove level can I bake apple pie?
How to make the apple pie particularly fine?
![Nut butter, that's browned butter.](https://thomassixt.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/nussbutter-gebraeunte-butter-1-150x150-3-150x150.jpg)
You can add more butter to the sponge or use nut butter or clarified butter.
What goes with apple pie?
Is there a trending ingredient to go with apple pie?
![Taste and taste balsamic vinegar on the back of your hand](https://thomassixt.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/balsamico-verkosten-und-probieren-150x150-1-150x150.jpg)
The secret tip is Balsamic Vinegar. Add the matured vinegar drop by drop to the cake.
What kind of apples or what kind of apples are ideal for apple pie?
What flour for apple pie?
What flour to use for granny apple pie?
Any tips for Juicy Apple Pie?
![Clarified butter](https://thomassixt.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/clarified-butter-recipe-image-1-150x150.jpg)
Use plenty of butter to grease the baking dish or cake pan.
Butter, nut butter or clarified butter makes the cake particularly juicy.
Keep exactly to the baking time and avoid baking the apple pie too long.
You can do the chopstick test for the first time 5 minutes before the end of the baking time and bake the cake exactly to the end.
Take the cake out of the oven after baking, staying longer or cooling in the oven will make the cake dry.
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Comments, Cooking Questions and Answers
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Please don’t forget the star rating on the recipe, 5 stars means you liked it!
Hello Elisabeth,
honestly I also like the cake very much because of the ease of preparation.
The simple dough always goes quite easily from the hand.
Besides, it tastes delicious 🙂thank you for your warm feedback.
Wish you continue to have fun baking and good luck!
Love greetings Thomas
Great tutorial. Thanks!
THX Jeff!
Georgeous applepie – I’ve tried the recipe and the result was perfect. Thank you!
Thank you, enjoy the cake!
Dear Mr. Sixt,
Thank you for the beautiful recipe. I had never dared to make an apple pie before:
Pie baking is not my thing. Then it was different.
Has worked excellently and the cake has become really fine.
Thank you for the extensive instructions.
Greeting Linus
Hello Linus,
I am very pleased that my instructions have seduced you to bake.
Wish you continued success and a great time.
Look gladly again by and send cooking questions.
These I answer here directly or develop instructions further.
Best regards Thomas
Hi Thomas, I have baked your cake twice now, because it tastes soo good to us.
Your pictures are a great pleasure and the implementation works easily.
Thank you for the great implementation, the ideas and tips. 5 stars!
THX Tron
THX Tron, WE are Always for the USERS 🙂
Best Regards Thomas
Hello Thomas,
this cake is now my favorite.
The dough is easy to prepare and the fruits put on quickly.
This makes baking even more fun for me!
Thank you 🙂