Easy Ina Garten’s Apple Crostata or Apple Pie Recipe

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This apple crostata or apple pie is the best tasting “apple pie” you will ever make or eat!!

Making Ina Gartens’s apple crostata dough recipe

The crust is a buttery flaky and it is to die for!!!

You make the dough in a cuisinart food processor and it comes together quickly. Refrigerate the dough for 30 min or longer. Make sure the dough is super cold before rolling it out.

Add in chopped apples to the Crostata dough

Once you have made the dough, refrigerated it and rolled it out, you can add your chopped apples.

I like this particular apple pie because the apples are cut into chunks and you don’t bake it a long time so the apples don’t get mushy.

You can make big ones or personal sized ones….you could make cherry, pear or peach crostata’s.

Make topping for apple crostata

Make the topping by adding cold butter, orange peel, sugar, cinnamon, allspice and little salt to a bowl. Mix it up until it is crumbly and add to the top of the chopped apples.

Sprinkle the topping over the top of apples.

Folding the edges of Easy Ina Garten’s apple crostata

Now it time to fold up the edges of the Crostata.

Start at one side and pull up the pie dough almost in a pleat all around the crostata.

This holds in all the apples and topping.

The finished Easy Ina Garten apple crostata or apple pie

Bake the crostata at 450 degrees for 20-25 minutes until the crust is golden.

Try it you will love it.

It is a free form apple pie….you don’t have to put the dough into a pie pan or figure out how to place the pie dough over the top.