Easy brown bag apple pie with a delicious crumb topping and flaky pie crust. The brown bag helps seal in all of the delicious flavors and leaves you with the best apple pie you've ever tried.
Prep Time: 30 minutesminutes
Cook Time: 1 hourhour30 minutesminutes
Total Time: 2 hourshours
Servings: 16
Equipment
1 pie dish
1 paper grocery bag
Ingredients
Crust
1 ½cupsall-purpose flour
1 ½teaspoonsgranulated sugar
1teaspoonKosher salt
½cupoil
2Tablespoonscold milk
Filling
½cupgranulated sugar, or brown sugar (could also do 1/2 each)
In a medium bowl, mix together the flour, sugar, salt, oil, and milk until well combined Pat mixture evenly into the bottom and up the sides of a 9-inch pie pan. Do not roll out. (To smooth it out, use the back of a hot metal spoon and gently push down to smooth evenly.)
Filling
In another medium bowl, stir sugar, flour, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Toss lightly with sliced apples. Let sit 10 minutes for sugar mixture to melt onto the apples. Pour into the unbaked pie shell.
Crumb Topping
In a small bowl, mix flour, butter, and sugar with your fingers or a fork until crumbly. Sprinkle over pie. You’ll want to bake soon before the butter mixture softens too much.
Place pie in brown paper bag and staple shut. Bake 1 1/2 hours. (If oven bakes hot, reduce to 325 degrees. No peeking.) Slit the bag open with sharp knife. Remove pie from oven and let cool completely so it thickens, about 4 hours.
Serve the pie with vanilla ice cream and caramel on top, if desired.
Notes
Pie size: If you are using a bigger pie dish, you may need to add more apples in filling. You may also need to make a little more dough to cover the entire dish.