Honey, you’ve discovered the vegan apple pie recipe you’ve been looking for. This deep dish apple pie is spiced with cinnamon and cardamom, and topped with a silky vegan caramel comprised of apple peels and cores. The vegan crust is flaky and buttery, and the pie isn’t overly candy; simply good. Seize a slice, and let’s dig in!
In our household my Nana is known for her apple pie, candy potato pie, and mac & cheese. Through the vacation season she makes these soulful treats to offer as edible items that her mates sit up for all yr. The truth that meals could be the final word expression of appreciation and love is so lovely to me. Maybe that’s one purpose I created this vegan apple pie. For one, I missed Nana’s deep dish apple pie once I grew to become vegan. And two, as a result of there’s one thing so fulfilling about sharing meals with those you like. And thirdly, there are few issues I really like greater than the scent of my kitchen when the apple pie is baking.
Why we love this vegan apple pie
- Not an excessive amount of sugar, and completely candy
- Deep dish with layers of pleasant apple filling
- Elevated with a touch of cardamom, nutmeg, ginger, and allspice
- Flaky vegan pie crust
- Good edible present
- Tastes like your grandmas apple pie
What apples must you use for the right pie?
For the right apple pie it’s best to make use of a agency and tart (or tart-ish) apple. These apples have a extra advanced taste and their tartness doesn’t get misplaced within the sugar and spice. Granny Smith apples are good for apple pie. I additionally like utilizing Honey crisp and Pink Girl. Nonetheless, any agency apple will work. I went apple choosing and made this pie (pictured right here) with a mix of random varietals, and the pie was elegant.
Is it higher to cook dinner apple pie filling first?
It’s all the time higher to cook dinner the apple pie filling first. Pre-cooking the filling insures the apples will soften and their taste will completely marry with the sugar and spices. Additionally, you will have a possibility to activate the apple’s pure pectin (thickener), and add extra thickener––I exploit potato starch––guaranteeing the right texture in your completed pie.
Are McDonald’s Apple Pies Vegan
One of many high searched questions for vegan apple pie is that this! Seems McDonald’s Apple Hand Pies are vegan, however why are you going to McDonalds in any case?! In the event you can handle, make your individual vegan apple pie at residence. It’s so a lot brisker and tastier than one you purchase from any retailer. Watch the video to see how I make it. It’s actually fairly simple and enjoyable.
Straightforward you say? How do you make a vegan apple pie
The first step
Put together your pie crust. I all the time desire to make my very own vegan flaky pie crust at residence. It’s really easy. Simply make sure you prep your pie dough an hour earlier than you bake it, because it might want to set within the fridge earlier than utilizing.
Step two
Peel, core, and slice 8 medium sized apples. For a deep dish pie you must use medium apples. Place the apple slices in a big bowl and high with a beneficiant sprinkle of lemon juice to maintain them from oxidizing. Save your peels to make the apple peel caramel*
Step three
Precook the apples in a big dutch oven. Now’s if you add the sugars (cane sugar and brown sugar) and spice. Apples have a pure thickener known as pectic that’s launched once they’re cooked. Nonetheless, additionally, you will add potato starch to thicken just a bit extra. Thickening the filling will insure an unbelievable texture, but additionally preserve the filling from slipping out of the crust when sliced.
Step 4
Bake that dangerous boy! Roll out the pie crust and place it in a pie dish. Pour the apple filling into the pie crust, add a pair cubes of vegan butter, high with one other crust, and bake to perfection. Be happy to high the pie with some fairly lattice work if you understand how, instance right here.
Step 5
Let it cool then take pleasure in! Serve this scrumptious vegan apple pie with vegan vanilla ice cream and apple peel caramel––which you may make whereas the pie is baking. Now you’ve the right dessert for the vacations!
Suggestions for making it
Make your individual pie crust
I like to recommend a pastry cutter to mix vegan butter into all objective flour, sugar, and salt. Try the complete recipe beneath.
Lemon is a should
Lemon will preserve your apples from turning brown when you prep the opposite components, however it additionally provides welcome tartness to the pie. About 1-2 tablespoons will do. Don’t skip the lemon.
Potato starch is best than cornstarch for fruit pies
Cornstarch and arrowroot powder have a tendency to provide a little bit of chalkiness in fruit pies, whereas potato starch makes a smoother thickener. In the event you don’t have it use 1 tablespoon of cornstarch as a substitute.
Determine in your pie topping earlier than you get began
It’s best to cowl the apple pie with a complete pie crust, crimping the sides and making slits on high to launch steam. Nonetheless, lattice work appears to be like lovely too, however will take extra time. Plan forward so you may get your pie into the oven rapidly––you don’t need the filling sitting within the backside crust for too lengthy.
Vegan egg wash it
You may create a vegan egg wash to offer the highest crust a pleasant golden brown sheen by brushing on a combination of maple syrup and soy milk earlier than baking. I didn’t do that for the photographs.
You can also make it gluten-free
I’ve a recipe for a scrumptious pecan pie crust beneath (scroll previous the apple pie recipe). Made with almonds, pecans, and oats, your vegan apple pie will likely be simply as yummy. Use the opposite half to make a crumble high!
How ought to I retailer an apple pie?
Hold your apple pie within the pie pan so long as you’d like. Simply cowl it with plastic wrap and retailer it within the fridge. It ought to keep contemporary for as much as 5 days. I prefer to reheat slices within the toaster oven earlier than having fun with.
Try these different candy treats for the vacations!
Biscoff Crumble Chocolate Bark
Cardamom Apple Pie
Components
- 8 baking apples, akin to Granny Smith peeled, cored, and thinly sliced about 1/8 inch thick
- 1 1/2 tbsp freshly squeezed lemon juice
- 1/3 cup brown sugar
- 1/3 cup cane sugar
- 1 tsp floor cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp freshly grated nutmeg
- 1/4 tsp allspice
- 1/2 tsp floor cardamom
- 1/4 tsp floor ginger
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 2 tbsp potato starch
- 1/4 cup apple cider or water
- 1 recipe Flaky Double Pie Crust (recipe beneath) or 2 store-bought vegan pie crusts
- 2 tbsp stable coconut oil or vegan butter
Directions
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Preheat the oven to 400ºF.
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Place the sliced apples in a big bowl, add the lemon juice, and toss to coat. Switch them to a big saucepan and place over medium warmth. Add the sugars, cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, cardamom, ginger, and salt. Stir properly. Convey to a simmer and cook dinner for 10 minutes, or till the apples soften.
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In a small bowl, stir collectively the potato starch and cider or water till the starch dissolves. Pour it into the apples and stir because it thickens. Take away from the warmth.
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Pour the apples evenly into the underside pie crust. High the apples with small items of coconut oil or vegan butter. High with the opposite pie crust and crimp the sides. Make slits within the high crust to launch steam because it bakes. Bake for 45 minutes or till the highest of the pie crust turns golden and the sides are barely browned. If the sides are browning too rapidly, wrap them in aluminum foil.
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Take away the pie from the oven and let cool for 1 hour earlier than serving with vegan vanilla ice cream.
Apple Peel Caramel
Upcycle contemporary apple peels to make candy and wealthy caramel for topping apple pie, soda, pancakes, or fruit.
Components
- 2 cups apple peels and cores
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 cup white sugar
- sprint of pumpkin pie spice or cinammon
- 1/4 cup water
Directions
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Add the apple scraps and sugar to a small pot, and stir properly. Let it sit for five minutes.
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Over medium warmth, convey the apple scraps and sugar to a simmer. The sugar ought to soften utterly inside a few minutes.
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Pour in 1/4 cup of water. Convey the syrup to a simmer, then scale back it to low warmth to very gently simmer for 20 minutes.
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Pressure the syrup and toss the solids. Enable the syrup a minimum of quarter-hour to chill earlier than utilizing. It is going to thicken because it cools.
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Hold the syrup contemporary in a jar within the fridge.
Notes
Apple caramel will preserve within the fridge for as much as one month.
Vegan Empanada Dough
This empanada dough is similar as my flaky vegan pie crust recipe.
Components
- 2 1/2 cups all objective flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1/2 cup + 2 tablespoons vegan butter
- 3/4 cup ice chilly water
Directions
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Mix the flour, salt, and sugar in a mixing bowl. Whisk to mix the components.
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Add the cubes of shortening and/or vegan butter, and use a pastry cutter to include into the flour. Proceed to combine with the pastry cutter till the combination resembles coarse meal, nearly pea sized.
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Slowly add the ice water, 2 tablespoons at a time, and stir with a wood spoon or your arms.
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As soon as the dough begins to carry collectively type it into two tight balls.
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Flatten them a bit (this can make it simpler to roll out later), and wrap it in plastic wrap or parchment paper.
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Place within the fridge for a minimum of one hour.
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Take away the chilled pie dough from the fridge. Let it sit on the counter for 10 minutes to melt.
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Flour a clear, easy stone floor and place one of many dough balls down onto it. In the event you don’t have a stone floor use parchment paper.
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Discuss with above vegan empanada directions for rolling the dough and stuffing with empanada filling.
Nutty Pecan Pie Crusts
Components
- 2 cups almonds
- 1/2 cup pecans
- 1 1/4 cup rolled oats
- 1 tsp salt
- 2 cups spelt flour or gluten free flour
- 1/2 cup + 2 tbsp impartial oil
- 1/2 cup + 2 tbsp maple syrup or agave
- 2 tsp vanilla
Directions
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Preheat oven to 350°.
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In a meals processor mix the nuts, oats, and salt. Pulse till it turns into a rough meal.
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Pour the combination right into a mixing bowl and stir in spelt flour.
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Stir within the oil, syrup and vanilla. Stir properly till it’s all mixed. Will probably be sticky.
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Divide the dough and press firmly into one pie dish. Set the remaining apart to create a crumble for the highest of the pie.
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Poke fork holes into the bottoms of the pie.
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Bake for 10 minutes earlier than filling and baking pie.
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Fill the pie crust with the apple pie filling, and sprinkle the remaining crumble excessive. Attempt to create some chunks to offer the crumble various texture. Bake for 40 minutes.
