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Gluten and Dairy Free Scrumptious Apple Crumb Pie

Cheri Moore
Each bite of apple pie is filled with hints of cinnamon and nutmeg topped with a delicious crumb topping complete with a gluten and dairy free flaky crust.
5 from 1 vote
Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 45 minutes
Deep Crust Pie 55 minutes
Total Time 2 hours 10 minutes
Course Dessert
Servings 8 people

Equipment

  • Johnny Apple Peeler or a hand held apple corer With a few turns of a handle, you peel, core, and slice your whole apples.
  • 2 Mixing bowls one for apples, one for crumb topping

Ingredients
  

  • 1 gluten free pie crust
  • 6 peeled, cored, & sliced apples

Apple Seasoning Mixture

  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 1 Tbsp cinnamon
  • 1/4 tsp nutmeg
  • 1 TBSP Benefiber (optional)

Crumb Toppings

  • 1/2 cup oat flour
  • 1/4 cup millet or cassava flour
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 1/3 cup non-dairy butter

Instructions
 

  • Wash apples in a bowl with water and 1/2 cup of vinegar. While apples sit in the vinegar water mixture, get out your ingredients, 2 mixing bowls, measuring spoons, dry and liquid measuring cups.
  • Now, take apples out of vinegar water mixture. Peel, core, and slice apples into a large mixing bowl.

Apple Seasoning Mixture

  • In a large size mixing bowl, pour in 1/2 cup of sugar, 1 Tablespoon of cinnamon, and 1/4 teaspoon of nutmeg. Mix together.
  • Pour cinnamon and nutmeg sugar mixture over apple slices. Then, stir until apple slices are covered with sugar mixture.
  • Pour seasoned apples into the gluten free pie crust.
  • Use a fork to push apples down to fill in gaps. Try to flatten apples as much as possible to make it easier to cover them with the crumb topping.

Scrumptious Crumb Topping

  • Measure 1/2 cup of gluten free oat groats. Pour grain into mill and catch flour.
  • Measure 1 cup of oat flour and pour in a clean mixing bowl.
  • Measure out a 1/2 cup of millet grain. Pour grain into the mill and catch flour.
  • Measure 1/2 cup of millet flour and pour into the bowl with oat flour.
  • Add one teaspoon of cinnamon to the flour mixture and mix.
  • Then, put slices of butter onto dry mixture.
  • Measure 1/3 cup of butter and cut into thin slices.
  • Pour butter slices into bowl of flour. Cut butter into seasoned flour mixture until mixture looks crumbly.
  • Slowly pour crumb topping over the apples in the pie shell. Using a fork helps you easily spread crumbs around to cover apples more evenly.
  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees. 
  • Pour your crumb topping over the apples that are in the pie shells. Use a fork helps you easily spread crumbs around to cover apples more evenly.
  • Cook apple pie for 45 minutes. 
  • When the fork easily pierces an apple slice, the pie is ready to remove from the oven.

Cooling and Storing Apple Pie

  • Place apple pie on a cooling rack. Once cool, I place a paper towel over the top of the pie to keep the crumb topping crunchy. I do not store the apple pie in any type of container, because the crumb topping becomes soggy.

Notes

Crumb Topping – I like to double the recipe so I can freeze crumb topping to use later as a topping for my sweet potato casserole. 
I like making my gluten and dairy free pie dough ahead of time. Each recipe gives you two flaky delicious pie crusts. Cook them right away or make 2 balls and store in tightly wrapped plastic wrap in the refrigerator up to three days.