Apple Dutch Pie

Dutch Apple Pie is made with a spiced apple filling in a flaky pie crust topped with a crumb topping made of flour, sugar, and butter.

The Best Dutch Apple Pie Recipe

This Dutch Apple Pie recipe is the perfect way to enjoy fall flavors and fresh-picked Granny Smith apples this season! If the thought of making an apple pie intimidates you, it’s because you just haven’t found the right recipe yet!

This pie is made with a store-bought pie crust (shh, don’t tell!), and topped with a rich, buttery crumble that’s totally irresistible.

Dutch Apple Pie Recipe ingredients

Pie Crust
Granny Smith Apples
Granulated Sugar
Lemon Juice
Almond Extract
Vanilla Extract
Ground Cinnamon
Ground Nutmeg
Flour
Kosher Salt

Variations to this Recipe for Dutch Apple Pie

Topping – A true Dutch Apple Pie is just a sweet crumble topping, but you could use an oatmeal streusel instead like you would for a homemade apple crisp.

Filling – You can drizzle a 1/4 to 1/2 cup of thick caramel sauce over the top of the filling and under the topping for a caramel apple pie.

Crust – For a unique twist on a traditional pie crust, try my Cream Cheese Pie Crust recipe.

Dutch apple pie is so impressive, but it’s so much easier to make than I ever thought. Especially now I have your helpful tips! This recipe is extremely easy to follow. Thank you!

– Helen

How to make Traditional Dutch Apple Pie

1. Preheat your oven and peel and slice your apples.
2. Stir the apples with the sugar, spices, flour, and salt.
3. Pile the apple filling high in the crust.

4. Cut the topping ingredients together in a bowl.

5. Sprinkle the topping over the top of the apples and bake.

6. Cool completely at room temperature before enjoying.

How To Serve The Best Dutch Apple Pie Recipe

Eat it hot with a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top or a dollop of whipped cream! Trust me, you’ll have a hard time stopping at one slice!

Storing Apple Dutch Pie

You can keep baked apple pies at room temperature for up to two days. If the pie has been sliced, cover it loosely with foil or plastic wrap to ensure freshness. An apple pie will keep for an additional 2 to 3 days covered in the refrigerator.

What is Dutch Apple Pie?
It’s that streusel topping that makes an apple pie “Dutch”! Not to be confused with French Apple Pie, which has a less sweet and softer textured crumble topping. To further explain it, let’s put it this way: if a regular apple pie and Apple Crisp had a baby, you’d get Dutch Apple Pie.

Dutch Apple Pie vs Apple Pie
The difference lies mainly in the topping. A traditional apple pie is a double-crust pie, meaning it has a top crust and a bottom crust. A Dutch Apple Pie has a deep golden brown crumble topping made with butter, flour, and sugar. Another noteworthy difference is that Dutch Apple Pie has a touch of lemon juice in the filling.

And while not all traditional apple pie fillings are cooked on the stovetop before baking and thicken with cornstarch, a Dutch Apple Pie will always use fresh apples tossed in a mixture of sugar, flour, and spices.

Is Traditional Dutch Apple Pie Really Dutch?
Good question; the answer is no. Although the origins are European, the version we know today was adapted over generations and through different colonial factions using ingredients available in the New World.

The final adaptation that stuck was a flaky pie crust, a spiced apple filling, and a streusel topping that was actually made in Pennsylvania by French colonists in the 1600s. So I would say this recipe is as American as Apple Pie 😉

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