One Arm Apple Pie
This recipe for apple pie takes skill and discipline, but the result is awesome!
You will need:
- 1 tin of sliced baking apple (I prefer Ardmona)
- 3 slices of puff pastry
- a pie dish
This is kinda optional but the first step is to put one hand in your pocket and leave it there.
Now… with one arm:
- Grease the pie dish with butter.
- Place one sheet of puff pastry on the base of the pie dish and press the pastry up the sides (leave the corners hanging over the edge. You will need to cut of some pastry from the 3rd sheet to fill in the gaps that the square puff pastry has left behind.
- Open the can of baking apple.
- Pour the apple from the tin into the pie dish and spread out evenly with a fork.
- Cover the apple with the second sheet of pastry. Take the base pastry that’s hanging over the side of the dish and fold it on to the top pastry. Cut off any other overhanging pastry and use it to fill in any gaps in the top pastry.
- Use the leftover third sheet of pastry to decorate.
- Bake in the oven at 180 C for about 30 minutes or until golden brown.
There you have it, one arm apple pie.
September 2nd, 2008 at 3:42 pm
Only variation I would add would be to season the apples with some mixed spice or cinnamon or other similar spice.
Otherwise sounds great and might just have to try it at some stage
September 12th, 2008 at 8:31 am
I actually prefer apple pie without all the spice.
So this one wins in my book.
July 29th, 2010 at 7:56 am
I was looking this up for a friend of ours who broke a bone in her hand playing hockey on the weekend…she says she can’t cook for a while, that’s why @i thought of this…
I was thinking that this with the addition of sa few dollops of butter on top of the layer of apple then sprinkle some brown sugar over the top of the whole lot before the last layer of pastry would be kind yum too!