Easy Vegan Apple Pie

Ingredients

• 0.5 cup All-purpose flour
• 4 tbsp Vegan butter
• 0.5 tsp Salt
• Chilled water (As needed)
• 2 Apples (Peeled, cored, and sliced)
• 0.25 tsp Cinnamon powder (For the apple filling)
• 2 tbsp Brown sugar (For the apple filling)
• 2 tbsp Cornflour/cornstarch (For the apple filling)
• 0.25 tsp Nutmeg powder (For the apple filling)
• Vegan milk (For milk wash)
• Brown sugar (For sprinkling)
• Cinnamon powder (For sprinkling)

Steps

1. 1

   For the pie crust, place the flour, salt, and vegan butter in a bowl.

2. 2

   Rub the ingredients together with your fingertips until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs.

3. 3

   Add chilled water as needed and bring the mixture together into a stiff dough.

4. 4

   Cover the dough and refrigerate it until needed.

5. 5

   For the apple filling, peel, core, and slice the apples into a bowl.

6. 6

   Add the brown sugar, cinnamon powder, cornflour, and nutmeg powder to the apples. Mix well and set aside.

7. 7

   Divide the dough into four portions. Take one portion for the base and cover the remaining three portions until needed.

8. 8

   Roll the first portion into a roti-like round with a rolling pin, dusting with all-purpose flour if needed.

9. 9

   Place the rolled dough in a greased pie pan and press it against the bottom and edges.

10. 10

    Trim away the excess dough from the edges and poke several holes in the bottom of the crust. Set the pan aside.

11. 11

    Fill the crust with the prepared apples.

12. 12

    Roll the second portion of dough with a rolling pin.

13. 13

    Cut the rolled dough into 10 strips using a knife or pizza cutter.

14. 14

    Arrange five parallel strips over one side of the filled pie and the remaining strips over the other side. Fold back every other strip.

15. 15

    Place one long strip perpendicular to the parallel strips, then unfold the folded strips over it.

16. 16

    Fold back the parallel strips running underneath the perpendicular strip, stretch a second intersecting strip beside the first with some space between them, and unfold the parallel strips over the second strip.

17. 17

    Continue weaving the strips until the top of the pie is covered.

18. 18

    Trim the edges of the strips. Decorate the edges with heart-shaped pieces of dough if desired, as shown in the source.

19. 19

    Brush the pie with vegan milk and sprinkle brown sugar and cinnamon powder over the top.

20. 20

    Bake in a preheated oven with both rods on at 180°C for about 60 minutes, or until the pie is golden brown.

21. 21

    Remove the pie from the oven and invert it from the pie pan. The source recommends placing a glass upside down, setting the pie pan over it, gently sliding the pan down around the edges, and removing the base.

22. 22

    Serve immediately or chill and serve cold from the refrigerator. Serve as is or with vegan whipped cream or plant-based vanilla ice cream.

Notes

The structured recipe data does not specify the dough's refrigeration duration, the type or size of pie pan, or the amount of vegan milk, sprinkling sugar, or sprinkling cinnamon. The body notes that the apples are placed directly into the unbaked bottom crust; pre-baking the bottom crust is mentioned as an optional alternative. The recipe lists a total time of 60 minutes despite specifying 30 minutes of preparation and about 60 minutes of baking.

Nutrition per serving

• dessert
• vegan
• eggless
• dairy-free
• baked
• holiday
• apple pie