The best apple crumble pie ever!

This is pretty traditional Dutch. You can't have a birthday party without one. And this is the only one from the things I bake, that my husband can eat all by himself!

It is great to eat warm or cold, with whipped cream or ice. It is a bit of work, will take you about one hour to make and another to bake.

The best apple crumble pie ever!

ingredients for the crust

• 200 gr butter
• 150 gr sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 vanilla
• 300 gr flour
• 1 tea spoon baking powder
• a pinch of salt
• breadcrumbs

ingredients for the filling

• 4 big apples sour and hard
• 100 gr sugar
• 1 table spoon cinnamon
• 1 hand full raisins
• 30 gr walnuts (roast and grind)
• 50 gr almonds (roast and grind)
• a bit of lemon

ingredients for the crumble

• 50 gr flour
• 50 gr sugar
• 50 gr butter

instructions for the crust

1. Leave the butter out of the fridge until it becomes soft.
2. Mix the butter and sugar using your hands, until it becomes uniform.
3. Beat the egg with the sugar, using a whisker.
4. Add the egg to the butter mix.
5. Mix the flour with the baking powder and salt.
6. Add the flour mix to the rest of the mix.

instructions for the filling

1. Cut the apples to small cubes.
2. Add the sugar and cinnamon and mix well with your hands.
3. Try one apple cube, if it is still sour add more sugar.
4. Add the roasted nuts and raisins.

instructions for the crumble

1. Mix the butter and sugar using your hands.
2. Add the flour and make it crumble with your fingers.

instructions for putting it together:

1. Butter the form (24 cm), bottom and sides.
2. Use your hands and then a silicone spatula to spread the crust mist evenly.
3. Cover also the edges of the form.
4. Spread some bread crumbs in the bottom of the form, so they suck the juices from your apple mix. Otherwise the bottom may not bake properly.
5. Put the apple mix in the form, using a table spoon and avoid pouring any liquid from the apple mix.
6. Spread the crumble mix on top.
7. Bake in 180C, air, for one hour.
8. Once baked, let it cool down for 15 minutes, open carefully the form and serve! 

After cutting the apple in cubes, you can keep them white by adding some lemon in the mix

Cut the soft butter in cubes, so you can easily mix it by using with your hands.

You can spread the crust dough with your hands, and then make it even by using a spatula.
Don't forget the bread crumbs.

Grinding a roasting nuts always brings out theirs flavors!

This is how it should look like after all the filling is in.

This is how the crumble looks like after mixing all the ingredients.

After baking for an hour, your pie should look like this.

Serve and enjoy!