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Dulce de Leche Apple Pie

Posted on November 14, 2009 by Veronica
 
On average, I save about five recipes a day.  Each is saved with full intention of making it ASAP, but most are forgotten by the following day when I’ve found five or twenty more recipes that I just HAVE to try right away.  It’s a never-ending cycle.
This one, however, has been stuck in my head ever since I read it on Laura’s blog two months ago.  It is not one I forgot, but continued thinking, imagining, and fantasizing about.  So when I unexpectedly got the day off on Thursday, I immediately knew how I would spend some of my free time.  Making. This. Pie.
 
It was worth the wait and all the anticipation.  Honestly, it’s the best apple pie I’ve ever had–even better than the apple pie that has won me local acclaim and an order for 15 of them to serve as the groom’s “cake” at a wedding.  Grandma Ople’s Apple Pie is killer, but this one tops it.  And it’s easier to put together, so that makes it a definite winner. 
 
Personally, I don’t taste the dulce de leche in the pie itself so I like to drizzle dulce de leche over the top to enhance the flavor.



Dulce de Leche Apple Pie
from The Cooking Photographer, with some modifications
 
Double crust for 9” pie (I always use this recipe)
Egg white for brushing dough (reserve the yolk in a separate dish)
5 cups peeled and sliced mixed apples (I used 2 small Jonathan, 1 large Rome and 1 Granny Smith)
¼ cup dulce de leche
2 Tablespoons apple cider
½ cup brown sugar
1/3 cup granulated sugar
1/3 cup cornstarch
½ teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
Pinch of salt
1 Tablespoon of butter for dotting pie
Additional dulce de leche for drizzling (optional)
9” Pyrex pie dish, not the 9 1/2″ deep dish
1. Place the oven rack on the lower 3rd of the oven and preheat to 400 degrees.

2. Mix together sugars, cornstarch, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt. Make sure the cornstarch is well mixed in so you don’t get cornstarch lumps in your pie.

3. In a large bowl toss together the apples with dulce de leche, apple cider, and vanilla extract. Add the dry mixture and toss to combine. Set aside.

4. Roll out one of the discs of pie dough and line a 9” Pyrex pie dish with the bottom crust, then brush with the egg white. (Keep the remaining egg white for later use.) Add the filling and spread out evenly. Dot the mixture with little bits of butter here and there.

6. Roll out the other dough disc & cover with the top crust. Cut it slightly wider than the edge of the bottom crust, then tuck the edges under before fluting.

7. Mix the egg yolk with the remaining egg white & brush over the crust. Poke a few holes in the crust for venting or cut out decorations.

8. Bake for 30 minutes. Then turn the temperature to 375 degrees, cover crust edges with a pie shield*, and bake for another 30 minutes or until crust is golden on the bottom and no longer wet and raw looking.

9. Remove the pie from the oven and set on a cooling rack for several hours to set up the filling.

10. If desired, you may drizzle dulce de leche over the top of the pie shortly before serving. Don’t do it too far in advance or the dulce de leche will dry out and get hard. To drizzle it, warm the dulce de leche and either put it in a pastry bag or a ziploc bag and snip a small hole from the tip. Then just sweep the bag back and forth over the pie while you squeeze the bag.

*There is no need for a pie shield if using the recipe for crust in the link above. It doesn’t burn easily. Also, I only needed to cook my pie 45 minutes before the crust looked done, so I removed it and the apples were soft & perfect.

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About Veronica

I have a kitchen addiction and love to collect & share recipes. My passion is baking but I love to cook as well. The only thing I don't like to do in the kitchen is wash dishes, but my husband generally does them for me in exchange for his dinner.

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  1. Memoria | December 27, 2009 at 8:22 am

    What a beautiful crust and a yummy pie. This is the best crust I’ve ever seen. I’ll be trying out your crust recipe ASAP.

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  2. Memoria | January 11, 2010 at 12:26 am

    Oh, the new photos are beautiful!! I’m going to add more dulce de leche to the pie the next time I make it.

    BTW, I updated my post to include links to your pie crust and apple pie. Thanks for reminding me!

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  5. Sarah | January 14, 2012 at 10:19 am

    How much egg white/yolk did you use? I always have trouble with this since I am just starting out!

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  7. Ellie Kane | September 1, 2014 at 9:09 am

    Tried this recipe out this weekend and I made the best tasting pie of my life! Thank you for sharing. I truly love your blog. I always make pie for our Church’s annual Labor Day Ice Cream Social. Because it is for so many people I always make it in a sheet cake pan and double the recipes. I top with a Dutch Crumb Topping instead of the double crust and then drizzled it with the left over Dulce de Leche. Beautiful and delicious!

    Simply everything I have tried has been delicious and the family loves when I experiment with your recipes. Thank you :)

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