Description
All American double-crust apple pie topped with homemade ice cream is the perfect way to top off Thanksgiving dinner.
Ingredients
Scale
To make the ice cream:
- 2 cups real buttermilk
- ½ cup sugar
- pinch of salt
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon freshly ground nutmeg
- ½ teaspoon allspice
- pinch of cloves
- pinch of cardamom
Crust:
- 2½ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- ½ pound cold, unsalted butter, cut into 1-inch pieces
- ¼ cup ice water
Filling:
- 9 apples (I like McIntosh), peeled, cored and cut into eighths
- Juice of 1 lemon
- ½ cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon allspice
- pinch of cloves
- 3 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into small pieces
Instructions
Make the ice cream:
- In a medium bowl, whisk together the buttermilk, sugar, and salt until the sugar is dissolved.
- Stir in the cream, vanilla, and spices.
- Cover and refrigerate 2 hours or overnight, stirring occasionally to distribute the spices.
- Follow the instructions on your ice cream maker to make into ice cream.
Make the crust:
- Put the flour, salt, and butter in the bowl of a food processor and process about 10 seconds, until the mixture is grainy.
- Add the ice water a little at a time, while the machine is going, and process up to 30 seconds (be careful not to over process).
- The dough should just hold together when you pinch it; if it doesn’t add a little more water.
- Transfer the dough onto waxed paper (or your preferred surface) and shape it into two flat disks.
- Wrap each disk in the paper and chill for an hour.
Make the pie:
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
- In a large bowl, combine the apples and lemon juice.
- Sprinkle with the sugar and spices and stir gently until the apples are well coated.
- On a lightly floured surface, roll the dough disks out with a rolling pin until they’re even and about ¼-inch thick.
- Transfer one disk to a pie plate.
- Put the apples on top of the crust, mounding them toward the center.
- Add the butter pieces, distributing them evenly over the apples.
- Cover with the second crust and trim off any extra dough.
- Seal the rim (I like to pinch it together in a crimped pattern, but a fork works well too), and vent the top with a fork or knife.
- Put the pie in the oven and lower it to 375 degrees F.
- Bake about 40 minutes, until the crust is golden brown (be careful not to over bake and burn your crust).
- Serve warm, topped with ice cream.
- Category: Dessert
- Cuisine: American