Sour Cream Apple Pie with Streusel Topping Recipe

Prep time: 10 minutes

• Cook time: 45 minutes

INGREDIENTS

Filling:

• 1 cup sour cream
• 2/3 cup sugar
• 2 Tablespoons flour
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 egg
• 3 cups peeled, sliced tart apples (about 1 1/4 pounds of slices)
• 1 9" unbaked pie shell, frozen or chilled in the freezer for at least 30 minutes (see pâte brisée recipe)

Topping:

• 1/2 cup brown sugar, packed
• 1/3 cup flour
• 1/4 cup butter, room temperature
• 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

Mix together all ingredients until the mixture resembes coarse crumbs. Chill until needed in the recipe.

METHOD

1 Preheat oven to 400°F.

2 Beat together sour cream, sugar, flour, salt, vanilla and egg (can beat by hand). Add apples, mixing carefully to coat well.

3 Put filling into a pie shell and bake at 400 degrees initially for 25 min.

4 Remove from oven and sprinkle with Cinnamon Crumb Topping. Bake for and additional 20 more minutes.

Let cool for a hour before serving.

Yield: Serves 8.