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My favorite recipe to have evolved out of ‘apple picking day’ is the brown bag apple pie. This is an amazing pie for a multitude of reasons. 1. It is literally baked in a brown bag, at 425 degrees, for one hour, and the house does not burn down. (I promise!) 2. Two different crusts are featured, and neither are the ever so intimidating crusts you have to roll out! 3. To everyone that has tried this pie it has gotten the ‘best apple pie they have ever had’ comment. Not bad, right?
Make this pie for someone you love. Make it to comfort someone. Make it to remind yourself how perfect a fall day can feel. As a bonus, have a slice warm for breakfast. You just can not start a day any better than that.
(Recipe adapted from Mary Rose Lutz – Roslyn Road School Parent)
Bottom Crust:
1 & 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp salt
2 tsp sugar
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 TBS milk
Mix all of the above together. Pat the mixture into the bottom of a pie plate
Filing:
6 large Granny Smith Apples
1/2 cup sugar
2 TBS flour
2 tsp cinnamon
Core, peel, and slice all of the apples. Mix all ingredients together and pour into the bottom crust.
Top Crust:
1 cup flour
1 cup sugar
2/3 cup butter, softened on the counter
Mix above together, it will be sticky! Pat the mixture of the top of the filing. Place pie in a brown paper bag, fold over to close, and place on a cookie sheet and bake for 1 hour at 425 degrees. Again, the house will not burn down…but I would keep an eye (or two) on it.
Happy baking,
Courtney
made this with some recently picked apples today. my girls had so much fun putting on the topping and placing the whole pie in the bag. it looked to pretty when done and it was yummy! we will definitely make this again.
I could get used to hosting parties
Now I know who the brinay one is, Ill keep looking for your posts.
[...] on a little adventure to nana and papa’s farm in Ohio for nana’s 90th birthday! (The brown bag apple pie smelling temptingly good from the way back – it made it in one piece though). We had a BLAST [...]
To care passionately for another human creature brings always more sorrow than joy.
Lucky me–after being a recipient of one of these pies, I have to share my husband’s recent rave reviews of your pie. “It was so good, I would eat this pie if I found it on the side of Lake Cook Road”……and to top that, “I would probably eat this pie off a homeless man’s butt”…..he had a few beers, but still…
(maybe not for posting, but just mere props to you and giggles)
This made me laugh so hard…tell ‘daddie’ thanks for the laugh on a dreary Sunday!!!
I love this! I am always looking for dessert ideas that can be made from what I basically already have in my pantry. I also love fun ways of baking. Who knew you could bake in a paper bag?! I love it! I will definitely be trying this soon! Thanks Courtney!
So glad you like the recipe! It’s quite easy to make for a pie and there is something cool about bringing dessert over to someone in a brown paper bag. Enjoy and let me know how it turns out!