Baking: Apple Pies
This week was alot of fun becase we mad A TON of Apple Pies...
Some of the key things we learned were:
1. When brushing Egg Wash or Milk onto pie crusts, make sure it dries before baking, or else it will darken and burn.
2. Do not overfill or underfill your pies.
3. Make sure to leave a small hole in the top cust of the pie to allow steam to escape, making a flaky crust, not a soggy crust.
4. When making the Streusel Topping for a Dutch Apple Pie, you need more than butter and brown sugar... add some flour :)
The flower cutout on the 1st pie below was my creation. It didn't have much definition but was subtle. Next time I would use the steam hole to be the center of the flower.
The Dutch Apple is my FAVORITE style of Apple Pie. Marie Calendars makes a darn good one, probably better than I will ever be able to make. My apple fillings don't seem to come out as dense and easily slicable as hers. I love the scrabble-like peices I did that spelled "FALL" in 2 directions. They were made out of pie crust.
I didn't help much with the leaf pie below, but it came out pretty. It was from a design we saw in a book. The over-hanging leaves got a bit torched, and the leaf size wasn't consistant because everyone helping had to had cut free-form leaves.
Some of the key things we learned were:
1. When brushing Egg Wash or Milk onto pie crusts, make sure it dries before baking, or else it will darken and burn.
2. Do not overfill or underfill your pies.
3. Make sure to leave a small hole in the top cust of the pie to allow steam to escape, making a flaky crust, not a soggy crust.
4. When making the Streusel Topping for a Dutch Apple Pie, you need more than butter and brown sugar... add some flour :)
The flower cutout on the 1st pie below was my creation. It didn't have much definition but was subtle. Next time I would use the steam hole to be the center of the flower.
The Dutch Apple is my FAVORITE style of Apple Pie. Marie Calendars makes a darn good one, probably better than I will ever be able to make. My apple fillings don't seem to come out as dense and easily slicable as hers. I love the scrabble-like peices I did that spelled "FALL" in 2 directions. They were made out of pie crust.
I didn't help much with the leaf pie below, but it came out pretty. It was from a design we saw in a book. The over-hanging leaves got a bit torched, and the leaf size wasn't consistant because everyone helping had to had cut free-form leaves.
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