Caramel Apple Pie

                                                                               

Scrumptious Apple Pie with homemade Caramel Sauce, easier than you think & better than you could hope for. 

Caramel Sauce:

1 Cup Granulated Sugar

1/3 Cup Water

3/4 Heavy Cream

2 TBS Butter

In a heavy saucepan place the sugar evenly in the bottom. Now pour the water over the sugar evenly so it covers all the sugar. You can just give the pan a gentle swish to do that. Have the heavy cream & butter close at hand. Now cook the water & sugar over medium high heat & DO NOT STIR just let it happily cook on a high bubble. Let it bubble until you have a honey colored mixture, like amber. Now turn off the heat & pour in the heavy cream, let it bubble up & the settle add the butter & now stir like crazy until smooth. You will get hard glass like sugar at first but this will all stir into smooth delicious caramel sauce. Let cool while you go to the next step of the pie which is the crust.

CRUST:

2 Cups Flour

1 TBS Sugar

1 TSP Salt

1 TSP Sugar

1/3 Cup Butter

1/3 Cup Crisco Shortening

4 to 5 TBS Cold Water

1 TSP Vanilla

Stir all the dry ingredients together. Cut in butter & shortening until you have fine crumbs. Now add the water & vanilla & stir just until dough pulls together. Divide dough in half & roll out on a well floured surface to make a round large enough for a 9 inch deep pie pan. Line the bottom with one round & save the other for the top. Preheat oven to 350 degrees & now make the apple filling.

APPLE FILLING

4 Large Honey Crisp Apples peeled & pared, if using regular sized apples of your choosing you will need 8 apples, Places apple slices in a large deep bowl & toss with 1 TBS Lemon Juice to keep the apples from browning.

2 Heaping TBS Flour

2/3 Cup Sugar

2 TSP Cinnamon

Dash of Salt

1 Tsp Vanilla

Dump all the ingredients into your apples & stir well. Now dump the mixture into your lined pie dish. Now take that caramel sauce & pour it over the apples. Cut some slits in the top crust so pie has vents & cover the pie with your top crust, crimp the edges & sprinkle the top crust with about 2 TBS of sugar just for fun! Bake in the preheated 350 degree oven 45 up to an hour or so, crust should be nicely brown & you should see some bubbling of caramel coming up through the slits. Remove from oven & let cool. Slice & dig into all that caramel apple goodness!