Pillsbury Copycat Apple Pie Recipe With Ready Made Pastry

This is our favorite easy Pillsbury copycat apple pie recipe. This recipe almost guarantees a perfectly baked apple pie with just the right balance of sweetness, all baked inside a perfectly flaky crust from Pillsbury. 

Apple Pie With Pillsbury Ready Made Pastry

Throwdown Kitchen is all about great food, but sometimes we just want to take a shortcut. As with most of the pies that I make at home, I’ll start with a premade Pillsbury crust. The pie crust has never failed me, as long as I always cook and chill the apples before adding them into the pie crust. 

Apples To Use In Apple Pie

I like to use Granny Smith Apples. They are a standard and classic apple for apple pies. They are tart and crisp and keep their structure very well in the oven.

Tips For Baking Apple Pie

• Always let the fruit mixture cool before adding it into the crust.
• If the crust starts to brown too quickly, cover the pie with foil for the remainder of the bake time.
• Let the pie cool before slicing it. That will give the hot juices a chance to thicken up a bit more.

What You Will Need To Make This Apple Pie Recipe

For this, apple pie recipe, you will need prepared Pillsbury pie crust, granny smith apples, butter, flour, sugar, allspice, cinnamon, salt, corn starch, egg, and lemon juice

Start the apple pie recipe by peeling and coring the Granny Smith Apples (3 pounds). Slice the apples into ¼ inch slices.

Melting unsalted butter (2 tbsp) in a large skillet over medium high heat and add the apple slices.

Then, mix the dry spices together. Sugar (1 cup), cinnamon (½ tsp), allspice (1/4tsp) and kosher salt (¼ tsp) pour the mixture over the apples and stir until the apples are coated in the pan. Continue cooking the apples for 3 minutes.

Meanwhile, mix flour (2tbsp) and cornstarch (2 tsp). Sprinkle this mixture over the apples and stir.  Cook the apples another 3 to 4 minutes. Remove the apples from the heat and squeeze lemon juice (1 tbsp). 

Remove the apples from the heat and cool the mixture completely.

Ready Set Bake, Lets Make Homemade Apple Pie

When the apples have cooled, preheat the oven to 425 degrees. 

Unwrap the pie dough and flour lightly. Line a 9-inch pie pan with the bottom pie crust, pressing the dough firmly against the sides and bottom of the pie pan

Fill the pie with the chilled apple pie filling, mounding it slightly in the center.

Cover the pie with the second pie crust, pinching the edges sealed.

Brush the pie with egg wash (1 large beaten egg), making sure you get all the edges. 

Finally, sprinkle sugar (2 tbsp)  over the top of the pie.

Bake the pie for 20 minutes and then reduce the heat of the oven to 375 degrees and cook for another 30 to 40 minutes. Cover the pie with foil if the crust is browning too quickly.

Cool the pie on the counter top for 2 hours before slicing

Easy Apple Pie Recipe

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