Hard Cider Caramel Apple Pie

You’ve never had apple pie until you’ve had this unbelievably delicious Hard Cider Caramel Apple Pie – its the perfect Fall dessert.

This is the best pie I’ve ever had. Hands down.  Mom – if you’re reading this, your pie is really REALLY good. But this one knocked it out of first place. I’m sorry to have to tell you.  As you might know, my mom makes the best all butter crust on earth. Its really good. And for years we’ve been making apple pie by reducing apple cider for the filling.  Now imagine replacing that apple cider with hard apple cider and adding rich caramel sauce into the filling.  Oh my.

 MY OTHER RECIPES

I wish I could take credit for making this pie, but my friend Trista of Cheery Pies deserves all the credit.  She also made the delicious Coconut Macaroon Pumpkin Pies and I have several more goodies what will be featured on the blog over the next couple months.  Boy are you in for some treats!  Are you just dying of anticipation?

You know my favorite kind of apples are honeycrisps.  This year I’ve already made a ton of vanilla bean honeycrisp applesauce, some applesauce muffins, a buttercup squash cake with an applesauce filling, and a vanilla bean cheesecake with apple compote. As a result, my fat jeans are now tight, but that is what January is for, amiright?  Well, honeycrisps are past their prime this time of year and this pie sings when made with Gravensteins or Golden Delicious apples.  They’re just the right kind of tart and perfectly firm for the hard cider caramel sauce they’re paired with.

So the next time you make an apple pie, or dare I say {gasp} buy a premade one, get ready to knock your own socks off and follow this recipe for the best damn apple pie that will ever meet your mouth.

Hard Cider Caramel Apple Pie

 

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Prep time

30 mins

Cook time

1 hour

Total time

1 hour 30 mins

 

You've never had apple pie until you've had this unbelievably delicious Hard Cider Caramel Apple Pie - its the perfect Fall dessert.

Author: Krissy Allori

Recipe type: Dessert

Yields: 8 servings

Ingredients

Follow recipe for all butter pie crust:

• Make one 9 inch pie shell + one 9 inch pastry top crust or pastry cut outs

Caramel:

• 1 cup granulated sugar
• ½ cup hard apple cider
• 12 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened and cut into small pieces
• ½ cup heavy cream

Pie Filling:

• 4 cups thinly sliced apples (peel, core & thinly slice about 6 apples-I prefer Golden Delicious or
• Gravensteins for this pie)
• ¼ cup fresh lemon juice
• ¼ cup all-purpose flour
• ¼ teaspoon ground cloves
• 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• ¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg
• ½ cup granulated sugar

Instructions

Make pie crusts and set aside.

To make the caramel:

1. Combine the sugar and cider in a medium saucepan. Stir to combine. Over medium high heat allow to boil until the mixture is a light caramel color.
2. Off heat add in butter and heavy cream. Stir to combine.
3. Put the saucepan back on the burner and continue to cook and stir until the mixture bubbles and thickens.

To make the pie:

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
2. Mix all pie filling ingredients together in a large bowl. Place in pie shell. Pour about ½ cup of the caramel over the apple mixture.
3. Top with top crust or pastry cut outs.
4. Brush with milk or water and sprinkle with sugar.
5. Place pie on a rimmed baking sheet, cover the edges of the pie crust with foil and place in the
6. middle of the oven.
7. Bake for about 20 minutes. Then, reduce the oven temperature to 375 and bake for an additional 40-50 minutes or until the filling is bubbly and the top crust is lightly browned.
8. After the pie is cooled, heat up some of the caramel sauce and drizzle it over the top of the pie.

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