Skillet Apple Pie | Cookies & Cups

This rustic skillet apple pie is the best method to make an apple pie with no conventional pie plate! This pie recipe has spiced apples layered in a flaky crust with caramel sauce, served heat from a skillet as a substitute. A scoop of ice cream is non-negotiable!

As quickly as the primary leaf hits the bottom within the fall, I’m ALL about apple desserts. I’ve made mini apple pies and even apple pie dip. I do know you’ll love this simple skillet apple pie simply as a lot as I do!

Why You’ll Love This Iron Skillet Apple Pie

There’s nothing, and I imply NOTHING higher than the scent of apple pie baking within the oven. The sweetness, the comfortable spice. Sure, please! I like my basic baked apple pie recipe for that motive. However right here’s why ought to bake your subsequent apple pie in a skillet:

• A brand new twist on a basic. This skillet apple pie is a extra rustic, much less fussy manner of creating pie. It seems nice with home made or refrigerated pie crust, so it’s good for on a regular basis baking.
• Caramel apple filling. This pie is a double-decker. It has basic, candy apple pie filling and the underside crust bakes in caramelized brown sugar. Each time you serve a slice, you get a “shock” of gooey caramel beneath!
• Higher baking. Forged iron skillets are nice insulators. So, not solely does this skillet apple pie look fairly, it has the bonus advantage of baking extra evenly with an additional crisp crust.
• Excellent for fall events. Serve this skillet apple pie heat a la mode, topped with huge scoops of vanilla ice cream. Apple pie is all the time a favourite, and this one’s an actual show-stopper on the dessert desk.

What You’ll Want

The skillet methodology may be new, however this recipe makes use of all of your basic apple pie elements. See my notes beneath, and scroll right down to the printable recipe card for the complete elements checklist with quantities.

• Apples – Select any baking apples, like Granny Smith (my fave), Braeburn, Cortland, Honeycrisp, or a mixture of totally different apples. One of the best apples for baking are agency sufficient to carry up within the warmth of the oven. Peel and chop them into ½” slices.
• Brown Sugar – I just like the caramelized taste of brown sugar, however granulated sugar works too.
• Flour and Salt – All-purpose flour and kosher salt. Flour thickens the apple pie filling, however you may substitute the flour on this recipe with 2 tablespoons of cornstarch should you desire.
• Cinnamon – Or apple pie spice.
• Butter – Salted or unsalted.
• Pie Crust – Identical to a basic apple pie, this skillet model requires a flaky pie crust. I exploit my home made crust, however a refrigerated store-bought crust works completely. Ensure it’s a double crust (prime and backside).
• Egg – Simply the egg white, for an egg wash. Brushing the pie crust with egg earlier than baking offers the apple pie a golden, shiny end.
• Sugar – Coarse sugar or granulated sugar, to sprinkle over the crust for further crunch.

What Type of Skillet Ought to I Use? 

Whichever skillet you employ, crucial factor is that it’s 100% oven-proof. The only option for this skillet apple pie is a 10-inch cast iron skillet. Staub and Le Creuset are good manufacturers to search for. Forged iron comes coated (with enamel or comparable) or uncoated. I like mine, and use it for all the things from desserts like pies and skillet cookies to skillet apple biscuits and skillet chicken parmesan. Completely well worth the funding!

Methods to Make Apple Pie In a Skillet

This simple skillet apple pie takes just some minutes to place collectively and the steps are loopy easy. You’ll toss the apples in spices, and make a fast brown sugar caramel sauce within the skillet earlier than you assemble. Observe alongside beneath, and check with the recipe card for printable directions.

• Put together the apples. Peel, slice, and toss the apples with brown sugar, flour, salt, and cinnamon.
• Make the caramel sauce. Subsequent, soften butter and brown sugar in a cast iron skillet. Let it come to a boil for two minutes (hold stirring!) and take the skillet off the warmth.

• Assemble. The primary pie crust goes into the skillet OVER the caramel. Belief the method! Subsequent, add the apples, adopted by the second pie crust. Give the sides a pinch to shut.
• Add an egg wash. Brush the highest crust frivolously with egg and sprinkle over some sugar. Rating the highest of the crust with a knife in order that the steam can escape.
• Bake. Bake the skillet apple pie in a 350ºF oven for 1 hour, or till it’s properly browned and bubbly. 

Do I Should Bake This Pie in a Skillet?

Baking apple pie in a skillet has it’s advantages, however should you don’t have a skillet or would favor to bake this pie the standard manner as a substitute, that’s wonderful, too. This recipe works with aluminum, glass, tin, or ceramic pie plates. Nonetheless, the bottom of the pie received’t be fairly as crispy and caramelized, and the filling may not bake as constantly as when it’s baked in a skillet.

Suggestions and Variations

• Protect the crust. If the pie is over-browning within the oven, cowl the crust with aluminum foil whereas the pie finishes baking.
• Time-saving tip. For those who’re working brief on time, you need to use my microwave caramel sauce recipe for the caramel layer. Simply unfold it into the pan and assemble the pie as normal.
• Don’t overcook the caramel. Overcooking the caramel sauce makes it much less saucy and chewier because it units, like the feel of homemade caramels. Nonetheless scrumptious, thoughts you, simply not what we’re going for. Let the caramel boil for simply 2 minutes, after which take the pan off the warmth straight away.
• Strive a distinct prime crust. As a substitute of a complete prime crust, prime this skillet apple pie with a crumble such as you would with a Dutch apple pie. Or, when you’ve got the time, slice and weave the pie dough to make a lattice crust.
• Add spice. Make a variation of this chai Dutch apple pie and toss the apples with chai spices. So cozy!

Methods to Serve Skillet Apple Pie

Now, for crucial step: topping this gooey skillet pie with a scoop (or three) of creamy vanilla ice cream! Plus, an additional drizzle of caramel for kicks. I additionally love topping my slices with home made apple cider caramel sauce or pumpkin spice caramel sauce when I’ve a batch within the fridge. Fall desserts don’t get significantly better!

Storing and Reheating

• Refrigerate. This skillet apple pie is ok to retailer lined at room temperature for a few days, or you may refrigerate it as much as 5 days.
• Reheat. Apple pie is a scrumptious chilly breakfast, should you ask me! In any other case you may reheat the entire pie proper within the skillet, or heat smaller parts within the microwave for 30 seconds earlier than serving.

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