Apple pie with a crispy lattice crust

Apple pie with a crispy lattice crust — juicy filling inside, an even golden crust outside. How do you make it so it never turns soggy or runny, even with the juiciest apples?

🔹 which apples to use so they don’t turn to mush
🔹 why the dough needs to be ice-cold
🔹 what temperature to bake at so the crust doesn’t stay pale

Baking pan: 10 in / ø25-26 cm

Ingredients

• Apples — 2 lb / 1 kg (about 4-5 medium apples)
• Puff pastry, yeast-free — 1 lb / 500 g (about one 17.3 oz box)
• Cornstarch — 1/4 cup / 30 g
• Flour — 1/4 cup / 30 g
• Sugar — 3/4 cup / 150 g
• Juice of half a lemon (about 1 Tbsp)
• Butter — 3 1/2 Tbsp / 50 g
• Cinnamon — 1/2 tsp
• Nutmeg — 1/3 tsp

Recipe

1. Cut the apples into quarters, peel them, and remove the core.
2. Cut each apple quarter into 3 more pieces.
3. Put the cut apples in a bowl, drizzle with the lemon juice and 2 Tbsp (30 g) melted butter, and mix well.
4. Add the cornstarch, flour, sugar, cinnamon, and nutmeg, and mix thoroughly.
5. Dust your work surface with flour and roll out half of the dough to the size of your baking pan plus 1 cm (about 1/2 in) for the sides.
6. Grease the baking pan with butter and lay the rolled-out dough evenly inside.
7. Roll out the second half of the dough into a rectangle and cut it into 12 strips about 3/4 in (2 cm) wide; the strips should be as long as the pan, plus 1 cm.
8. Spread the prepared apples over the dough, distributing them evenly across the pan.
9. Lay 3 strips of dough over the apples vertically, then 3 strips horizontally, and weave them together. Add another 3 strips vertically and 3 horizontally, weaving them into a basket-like lattice.
10. Trim off the excess dough around the edge, leaving about 1/2 in (1 cm).
11. Twist the dough along the entire edge of the pie into a rope pattern.
12. Brush the dough on top of the pie with melted butter.
13. Preheat the oven to 350°F (180°C) and bake the pie for 25 minutes.
14. Take the pan out of the oven, sprinkle with 1 Tbsp sugar, and bake for another 10 minutes.
15. Remove the apple pie from the oven and let it cool completely. Your apple pie is ready. Enjoy!