Skillet Apple Pie | Cookies & Cups

This rustic skillet apple pie is the best approach to make an apple pie with out a 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 straightforward 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 comfy spice. Sure, please! I really like my basic baked apple pie recipe for that cause. 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 approach of constructing pie. It seems nice with selfmade 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 good thing about baking extra evenly with an additional crisp crust.
• Good for fall events. Serve this skillet apple pie heat a la mode, topped with massive 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 technique is perhaps 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 listing 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 possibly can substitute the flour on this recipe with 2 tablespoons of cornstarch in case 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 take advantage of my selfmade crust, however a refrigerated store-bought crust works completely. Make sure that 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 Sort of Skillet Ought to I Use? 

Whichever skillet you utilize, an important 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 really like mine, and use it for every part from desserts like pies and skillet cookies to skillet apple biscuits and skillet chicken parmesan. Completely well worth the funding!

How you can Make Apple Pie In a Skillet

This straightforward 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. Comply with 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 (maintain 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 perimeters a pinch to shut.
• Add an egg wash. Brush the highest crust flippantly 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 Need to Bake This Pie in a Skillet?

Baking apple pie in a skillet has it’s advantages, however in case you don’t have a skillet or would like to bake this pie the normal approach as a substitute, that’s high-quality, 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 persistently as when it’s baked in a skillet.

Suggestions and Variations

• Defend 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. If you happen to’re operating quick on time, you should use my microwave caramel sauce recipe for the caramel layer. Simply unfold it into the pan and assemble the pie as traditional.
• 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 instantly.
• Attempt a unique prime crust. As an alternative of an entire prime crust, prime this skillet apple pie with a crumble such as you would with a Dutch apple pie. Or, you probably have 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!

How you can Serve Skillet Apple Pie

Now, for an important 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 selfmade 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 okay to retailer lined at room temperature for a few days, or you possibly can refrigerate it as much as 5 days.
• Reheat. Apple pie is a scrumptious chilly breakfast, in case you ask me! In any other case you possibly can 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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