This Easy Apple Pie is perfect for beginners because there is no stubborn pastry dough to deal with. With just 8 different ingredients and a 10 minute prep time, it proves that apple pie can be stress-free!
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Why this Easy Apple Pie Recipe is a Keeper
I love this recipe for easy apple pie so much because it’s super easy. Not only is it beginner friendly, it’s absolutely delicious!
- Easy Ingredients: This double crust pie uses 8 common ingredients you often have on hand. Perfect if you love apple pie!
- Consistent Results: This apple crumb pie recipe turns out well every time you make it.
- Great for Beginner Cooks: This classic apple baked pie is approachable for both beginners and experts.
- Special Occasion Worthy: Dutch crumb apple pie is impressive enough to serve at a seasonal gatherings or holidays.
What are the Best Apples for Apple Pie?
The best apples for apple pie are generally nice firm apples. Soft and sweet apples are delicious for snacking but can be too soft to bake with. Honeycrisp or Granny Smith apples are firm and tart yet sweet, making them great for pie!
Ingredient Notes for the Best Apple Pie and Pie Crust
You will need just a few simple ingredients to make the best apple pie. If you don’t happen to already have the ingredients around your kitchen, they’re all super easy to find at the store.
- Apples: Make sure to peel, slice and core your favorite tart apples.
- Flour: Don’t pack the flour into your measuring cup when you measure it out.
- Cinnamon: Cinnamon is what will give you that cozy fall dessert taste.
See the recipe card below for a complete list of the ingredients with measurements.
Prep Ahead Suggestions to Make this Easy Apple Pie
Prepping ingredients ahead of time can help reduce time and energy when it comes to making the pie.
- Peel and slice apples: Peel, core, and slice the apples in apple pie in advance.
- Make Pie Crust: Use a store-bought crust for your deep dish pie to cut down time that would be spent on making pie crust from scratch! You could even do a double-crust pie when baking a pie.
Special Equipment Needed for Crumble Topped Apple Pie
Sometimes having that one piece of special equipment can make all the difference, whether that’s making the task go quicker or just easier!
- Apple Peeler & Corer: To make peeling and coring the apples go a little quicker, you may want to consider getting an apple peeler and corer.
Fun Fact
Fun fact, there are over 2,500 varieties of apples that are grown in the United States!
How to Make Apple Pie
This easy pie filling and pie crust recipe comes together in just 4 simple steps. Even though it doesn’t take much effort, the result is still mouth-watering!
These are the basic steps for making Easy Apple Pie with Crumb Topping. Refer to the full, printable recipe card below for detailed instructions.
1. Preheat Oven and Prep Pie Plate
Preheat the oven to 400℉ and spray a 9 inch glass pie plate with cooking spray.
2. Make the Homemade Pie Crust and Topping
Add flour, sugar, cinnamon and salt to a pie plate and stir together with a fork. Combine milk and oil, pour over dry ingredients and mix. Save ⅓ of the pie crust dough for the crumb topping.
Press the pie dough for the bottom crust into the 9-inch pie dish, making sure to go up the sides.
3. Make the Apple Filling
Microwave the apple slices and sugar on high for 2 minutes. Add flour to the apples and microwave for another 2 minutes. Add lemon juice, salt and cinnamon and toss the apple mixture.
4. Assembling the Pie and Bake the Pie
Pour the pie filling into the edge of the pie crust. Scatter the reserved dough across the top of the unbaked pie pan for the crumb topping. Place the pie in the oven. Apple pie bakes for 30 minutes. Apple pie is done when the crust is golden brown.
How to Store, Reheat and Use Leftovers
- Storing: Store your favorite apple pie with flaky pie crust in an airtight container or wrapped well with foil. Keep in the refrigerator and it will be good for up to 4 days.
- Reheating: Reheat the pie by lining a baking sheet with parchment paper and allow the pie to warm up in a preheated 350 degrees oven for about 15 minutes. Add cheddar cheese, ice cream or whipped cream to the top of your pie.
- Using Leftovers: Serve any leftover pie with a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top of the pie; What’s apple pie without some ice cream!
Variations and Substitutions for the Best Apple Pie Recipe
Feel free to mix up the recipe a little bit to make your own variety of apple pie!
- Add Different Spices: Cinnamon, nutmeg or other spices can be added to this pie.
- Pie Crust: Get a premade pie crust if you’re not feeling like making your own!
Perfect Apple Pie Recipe FAQs
Try serving your delicious apple pie with Gingersnap and Eggnog Ice Cream Sandwiches or Stabilized Whipped Cream.
You can store this baked apple pie in the freezer after you cool the pie. Make sure to place pie in an airtight container and it should last 6-9 months. Let the pie thaw at room temperature before eating the chilled pie.
If you want to make this classic apple pie into a square for individual pie bars, use an 8×8 inch baking dish!
Expert Tips to Love this Recipe
- Pie Shield: Use a pie shield, perfect for making a pie.
- Short cut tip: Frozen apples can be used, no need to peel them.
- Topping: Sprinkle a little more sugar on top of the pie crust crumble!
- Pie Crust: If you want to use a homemade pie crust that you’ve made before and love, go ahead and bake this pie with your own crust.
- Other Mix-Ins: Nuts or cranberries can make a nice addition to the pie.
- Low Sugar: Feel free to use a sugar alternative such as Splenda in this apple crumble pie that’s easy to follow.
- Pie on a Baking Sheet: Place your glass pie dish on a baking sheet to easily grab it out of the oven and in case it bubbles over and makes a mess all over the pan and not your oven.
Easy Apple Pie with Crumb Topping
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Equipment
- Cooking Spray
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Ingredients
Crust
- 2 cups Flour
- 2 teaspoons Sugar
- ¾ teaspoon Salt
- ½ teaspoon Cinnamon
- ⅔ cup Canola oil
- 3 tablespoons Milk
Apple Filling
- 4 cups Apples, peeled, cored and sliced
- ⅔ cup Sugar
- 3 tablespoons Flour
- Lemon juice, dash
- Salt, dash
- 2 teaspoons Cinnamon
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400℉.
- Spray pie plate with an even coating of cooking spray. Add flour, sugar, cinnamon and salt in a pie plate. Stir with fork until combined.
- In a small bowl, combine milk and oil and pour over dry ingredients. Reserve ⅓ of the combined dough for the crumb topping.
- Press remaining dough into the pie plate, making sure to go up the sides.
- Place the apples and sugar in a microwave safe bowl and microwave on high for 2 minutes. Add flour to the apples and microwave for an additional 2 minutes.
- Stir in lemon juice, salt and cinnamon. Pour filling into prepared crust. Scatter the reserved dough across the top for the crumb topping.
- Bake for 30 minutes until golden brown.
Christina’s Notes
- Pie Shield: Use a pie shield, perfect for making a pie.
- Short cut tip: Frozen apples can be used, no need to peel them.
- Topping: Sprinkle a little more sugar on top of the pie crust crumble!
- Pie Crust: If you want to use a homemade pie crust that you’ve made before and love, go ahead and bake this pie with your own crust.
- Other Mix-Ins: Nuts or cranberries can make a nice addition to the pie.
- Low Sugar: Feel free to use a sugar alternative such as Splenda in this apple crumble pie that’s easy to follow.
- Pie on a Baking Sheet: Place your glass pie dish on a baking sheet to easily grab it out of the oven and in case it bubbles over and makes a mess all over the pan and not your oven.
- Scale the recipe: Simply adjust the serving size in the recipe card and the ingredients will update automatically.
- Make your own All Purpose Seasoning: When a recipe calls for All Purpose Seasoning, you can use my homemade All Purpose Seasoning recipe or substitute salt and pepper to taste.
- Meat doneness: I always use a meat thermometer to test for doneness when cooking meat.
- Use unsalted butter: I use unsalted butter so I can control the salt level in the recipe.
- Preheat the oven: Unless otherwise noted, always preheat your oven before baking.
For more helpful information about this recipe, such as variations, substitutions and other pro-tips, check out the blog post.
My mom dropped the whole dinner outta the oven because my brother was rushing her and burned herself up her whole arm
Once I forgot the sugar in my pumpkin pies…yeah we had squash pie. I had to run to the store last minute and buy 2 deli pies! 🙂 haha!
My worst mishap was buying a turkey pan that was to small.
I was pulling the turkey out of the brine… dropped it on the floor (several times). Slippery suckers.
one time i forgot to turn on the oven. lol
put turkey in oven and forgot to turn it on
My biggest mishap was underestimating the cooking time. Instead of eating a noon it was nearly 6 and we were all cranky because we were hungry!
My biggest baking mishap was when trying a new piecrust recipe. I was in a rush, so I didn’t chill the dough. Horrible, sticky mess that took forever to clean.
No holiday baking mishaps here…
My hubby dropped our cheese cake once! My kids were heartbroken lol then they got mad at me since I would let them scoop it off the floor!!
i dont have any good stories yet but this is my first year hosting the holidays so cross your fingers for me!
My biggest mishap was the first year my husband and I were married, and I made his favorite pie (sweet potato) and I failed to put any sugar in the pie! I will never forget the look on his face as he took his first and only bite. Trust me when I say, he has gotten way too much mileage out of this story! We have now been married 29 years and I have turned out to be a pretty good cook, but I will never live that down!
The first year I was married, I wanted to cook Thanksgiving dinner at home for me and my husband. But I’d never cooked Thanksgiving dinner, including turkey. So when the turkey came out of the oven just before dinnertime, my husband found it HILARIOUS that I had left all the giblets and the neck inside. I didn’t know they put body parts inside the turkey before they sold it to you and that I’d have to go scavenging inside the carcass to retrieve them! That was almost 20 years ago and apparently it’s just as funny now as it was then. *sigh*
I guess maybe cooking the turkey with the innards still inside!
The year we had my entire family here for Thanksgiving. (all of our children, grandchildren, my mom, my sisters & all of their children & grandchildren) One of the dishes I had fixed was a banana lush. I had just finished it so it was still on the counter & not in the fridge yet. Our cat jumped up on the counter, landed right in the pan & then of course jumped out & ran all over the house. HUGE mess. No banana lush. 🙁
I do not cook that much, but I do remember my aunt putting a glass dish on the stove on Thanksgiving that busted and ruined dinner
I left the gizzards in the turkey one year, gross.
We usually have some small mishap on Thanksgiving, but one year I ruined the cake icing. :/
I can’t remember one, but I am sure that something has gone wrong over the years.
buying all ready made pie crusts and leaving the paper in them