I made this apple pie for a dessert night we had in our community. I got a great compliment from a very sweet man with a foreign accent who said mine was his “favorite cake.” He made me smile.

I’ll tell you right now what made this dessert so delicious. One word. Butter. Butter in the crust. Butter in the filling. Butter in the crisp. Mmmmmm.

The recipe was my own concoction. A combination of a few recipes. Because I only had one pie crust, I improvised and used a crisp recipe for the top. And for the filling I used a recipe from allrecipes.com.

Ingredients:

1-9 inch pie crust
1/2 cup unsalted butter
3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1/4 cup water
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1 tablespoon cinnamon
8 Granny Smith apples – peeled, cored and sliced

Crisp Ingredients:

1/3 cup all-purpose flour
1/3 cup rolled oats
1/4 cup packed brown sugar
1/8 teaspoon ground cloves (optional)
1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/4 cup butter

Directions:

Preheat oven to 425°. Peel, core, and slice apples. Set aside in large mixing bowl.

Melt the butter in a saucepan. Stir in 3 tablespoons flour to form a paste. Add water, white sugar, brown sugar, and cinnamon and bring to a boil. Reduce temperature and let simmer.

Pour sauce mixture over apples and stir to combine. Place the bottom crust in your pan. Fill with apples, mounded slightly.

In a separate bowl, combine flour, oats, brown sugar, ground cloves, and nutmeg. Cut in butter until crumbly. Sprinkle crumble mixture over the apples.

Bake 15 minutes in the preheated oven. Reduce the temperature to 350°. Continue baking for 35 to 45 minutes, until apples are soft.