Apple Pie with Speculaas Spices
 
 
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Ingredients
  • For the Crust
  • 2½ cups all-purpose flour, plus flour for dusting
  • ½ cup sugar
  • 1 tsp sea salt
  • 225 grams unsalted butter, cold and cut in cubes
  • 6 to 8 tbsps ice water
  • 1 egg, lightly beaten
  • For the Filling
  • 4-5 medium apples, cut into small pieces
  • 1 tsp speculaas spice powder
  • ½ cup brown sugar + 1 tbsp for sprinkling
  • 3 tbsps plain flour
  • zest of 1 lemon
  • 1 tbsp lemon juice
Instructions
  1. To make the crust, combine the flour, sugar, and sea salt in a large mixing bowl. Gently mix in the butter into the flour with your fingertips. Work the flour till it resembles bread crumbs and then gradually drizzle in ice water, folding with your fingers, one tablespoon at a time. Add just enough water to hold the dough together. Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface and gather into a mound. Divide into 2 discs and wrap each with plastic wrap. Chill dough in the fridge for at least 30 minutes.
  2. Position oven rack in the center of your oven and preheat to 345°F/175° C.
  3. Butter and flour a 7-inch pie dish. On a lightly floured surface, roll one of the discs of dough into a 14-inch circle. Roll dough onto your pin and unfold into the prepared pie dish. Press dough into sides and bottom, and trim all but 1-inch of the overhanging dough. Set pie dish in the refrigerator to chill while you prepare the rest of the pie.
  4. Prepare the filling by combining the apples, sugar, flour, lemon zest and juice. Set aside.
  5. On a lightly floured surface, roll the second disc of dough into a rough 10- by 15-inch rectangle. Use a pastry cutter or sharp knife to cut strips, flowers, whatever or however you wish to decorate your pie top.
  6. Spoon the filling into the chilled pie shell. Lay the dough strips parallel across the pie. Weave in the other strips in the other direction. Trim any excess dough. Brush top of crust with the egg wash and sprinkle with one tablespoon of sugar.
  7. Set the pie on a baking sheet and slide into oven. Bake pie for upto 60 minutes or until pie is golden brown. (If edges browns too quickly, tent with foil.)
  8. Allow pie to cool completely, atlas an hour.
Notes
Speculaas spices can be totally made at home. Here's how:
Mix, 50 grams of cinnamon, 15 grams nutmeg, 10 grams ground cloves, 10 grams ginger powder, 5 grams pepper, 5 grams anise, 5 grams ground coriander powder, 5 grams crushed cardamom (about 3 pods). And there you go, you have speculaas all ready!
Recipe by Box of Spice at https://boxofspice.com/2016/10/apple-pie/