Shelly's Recipe

CARMEL CREAM PRALINE APPLE PIE

Category: Pies - Fruit

1 (9 inch) pie crust

Praline Filling
8 apples (Macintosh, Jonathon, Granny Smith or favorite baking apple)
2 tbsp flour or cornstarch
1/2 cup butter
2/3 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup heavy sweet cream

Peel, core and slice apples and place in a large bowl. 2. In a medium saucepan, combine butter, brown sugar and flour. Place on stove over medium heat, stir until mixture bubbles. Add heavy cream. Stir constantly until mixture returns to a boil. Remove from heat. Pour over sliced apples until coated and set aside.

Caramelized Pecan and Crumb Topping
1 cup chopped pecans
1/4 cup butter
1/4 cup brown sugar

Put nuts, sugar and butter in small saute pan over medium heat and stir until caramelized. Remove from heat and pour out on parchment paper to cool.

Crumb Topping
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup flour
1/4 cup white sugar

Cut in all three ingredients with pie blender to make a coarse crumb consistency. Pour coated apples into prepared crust.

Sprinkle caramelized pecans over apples. Sprinkle crumb topping over apples and caramelized pecans. Place a tinfoil tent over pie to prevent crust from becoming too brown before apples are tender in the middle.

Bake at 325 and for 1 hour. Remove tin foil tent last 10 minutes of baking if a browner crust is desired. Cool on wire rack completely.