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Gluten Free Apple Pie with Cinnamon Crumble Topping

*gluten free apple pie

I can’t believe this crust, I can’t believe this pie, and I can’t believe I made it….It’s SO FRICKEN DELICIOUS.

Served topped with Coconut Bliss Vanilla Ice Cream.…to die for….

Gluten Free Apple Pie with Crumble Topping

Crust:

1T cold vegan butter

4T cold coconut oil

1-1/4c Bobs Red Mill GF All Purpose Flour, or your favorite GF mix.

1/4t pink salt

1/4c coconut sugar

4-6T ice cold water

Sift the GF flour, sugar, and salt into a large mixing bowl. Add the cold butter and oil in 1T scoops and cut the oil into the flour using two knives or a pastry cutter. The end result should look like a sandy crumb or meal. There should not be any large chunks of oil; you want smallish bead sized bits of fat encased in the flour.

Add ice water 1T at a time using a wooden spoon to mix it in, grabbing the flour as you go. Only add as much water as you need to help it come together to form a ball.

With the soft dough, gently work it to form a ½ inch thick disc. Lay the disc into your pie dish or tartlet pans and gently use your hands to form it into the pan, working the crust up along the sides. Gently coax it from the center out working to get it the dough evenly spaced and as uniformly thick as possible all around on the bottom and sides- feel for thickness as you spin the pan. Work the dough up the sides of the pie dish. You can leave a straight no fuss edge or I like to make a curve design by pressing my knuckle in between the pie dough and my finger knuckle.

Place the crust into the fridge for 15-20 minutes to allow it to firm up.

Filling:

4 Pounds Firm Apples (8-9), peeled, cored, sliced

2/3c maple syrup

1 lemon, juiced

1 drop DoTerra Lemon Essential Oil– or food grade essential oil

3T virgin coconut oil

2-3T Bobs Red Mill GF All Purpose Flour

1T cinnamon

1/4t pink salt- more if desired

Mix all of the ingredients together; the apple slices, lemon juice, essential oil, maple syrup, coconut oil, cinnamon and salt and set aside.

*Do not put filling into the fridge just before spooning into the crust, as the oil will set up.

Crumb Topping: 

2/3c Bobs Red Mill GF All Purpose Flour

2/3c coconut sugar

3T coconut oil- solid or chilled

1T cinnamon

1/4t pink salt

In small bowl mix together the flour, sugar, salt and cinnamon. Add the chilled coconut oil and cut in using a fork or two knives, mix until you have a course, crumb.

Assembly

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Make sure the oven is hot prior to adding the pie!!!

Take the prepared crust out from the refrigerator.

Using a slotted spoon, layer in the apples, heaping them in the center. Sprinkle all of the Crumble Topping over the whole pie. Using a solid spoon, ladle in all of the juices from the apples over the top.

Reduce the heat to 375 degrees

Bake for 35-40 minutes or until the topping is golden browned and apple filling is bubbling.

Wait at least 30-40 minutes prior to serving. AMAZING with Coconut or vegan Vanilla ice cream.

Homemade Apple Sauce

*applesauce

I had about 4 or 5 apples that were just a little bit past good eating so I sauced them! I washed and cored them and kept the skin on. It was a mix of Ginger Golds, Honey Crisps, and Empires. It made the tastiest applesauce! I blended it in the vitamix- the consistency is really about how much water you add into the cooking and the water content of the fruit- too much water and you will end up with too thin a consistency for sauce. I added just a touch of cinnamon and bit of salt to draw out the natural sweetness in the apples, barley adding any additional sweetener-I used local maple syrup. FRICKEN YUM. It was delicious hot but even more flavorful cold.

Applesauce

4-5 apples of your choosing, cored and quartered

1/2c water (more or less)

1/2t cinnamon

pinch pink salt

2t lemon juice

2t maple syrup

In a heavy pot, combine the apples and the water. Bring to a boil then reduce the heat and simmer partially covered for about 15-20 minutes- just until the apples are tender and some of the water has cooked out.

Place everything including some of the cooking water (only if needed to get things going) the cinnamon, salt, maple syrup and lemon juice. Blend well. Adjust seasoning. Be careful not to over sweeten or season as it will intensify in flavor as it cools.

Serve warm or cold.

*a nice addition is cayenne pepper or black pepper!