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    Home > Recipes > Pies + Tarts

    Apple Butterscotch Pie

    Published: Jan 10, 2016 | Updated: Mar 24, 2022

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    This Apple Butterscotch Pie is absolute heaven! Lightly spiced apples baked inside a flakey all-butter pie crust with a homemade brown sugar butterscotch sauce! 

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    This Apple Butterscotch Pie is absolute heaven! Lightly spiced apples baked inside a flakey all-butter crust with brown sugar butterscotch sauce!

    I hope that eating more pie was your New Year’s Resolution, because I just got a little crazy with the pie baking!

    I waited a full 10 days before posting sweets, which I feel should be a socially acceptable time for everyone to recover from the holidays. No?

    This Apple Butterscotch Pie is absolute heaven! Lightly spiced apples baked inside a flakey all-butter crust with brown sugar butterscotch sauce!

    Well hurry up because this apple butterscotch pie is beyond divine!

    Sweet and tart apples baked to perfection with my butterscotch sauce all encased in a flakey pastry

    This Apple Butterscotch Pie is absolute heaven! Lightly spiced apples baked inside a flakey all-butter crust with brown sugar butterscotch sauce!

    All I ask is that you save a little of the brown sugar butterscotch sauce to drizzle (or pour) on top! Swoon.

    This Apple Butterscotch Pie is absolute heaven! Lightly spiced apples baked inside a flakey all-butter crust with brown sugar butterscotch sauce!

    Dicing the apples into smaller pieces allows the filling to cook at the same rate as the crust, so you don’t have to pre-cook your filling. Most of the apples are soft and supple but some have retained a little bit of bite so that you aren’t just eating applesauce. Personally if I wanted an applesauce pie, I would just pour applesauce in a pie crust and bake it. I like the fruit to retain its shape and texture but be soft.

    This Apple Butterscotch Pie is absolute heaven! Lightly spiced apples baked inside a flakey all-butter pie crust with a homemade brown sugar butterscotch sauce!

    Butterscotch sauce is like a caramel made with brown sugar instead of white and it is perfect when paired with the lightly spiced apples. In each bite you taste butterscotch, apples, cinnamon and just a hint of cardamom.

    This Apple Butterscotch Pie is absolute heaven! Lightly spiced apples baked inside a flakey all-butter crust with brown sugar butterscotch sauce!

    Did you think I left my obsession with cardamom in the 12 Days of Christmas Cookies? Now why would I do that?! Cardamom and cinnamon give this pie a surprising depth of flavor.

    A little bit of lemon keeps the filling from being saccharine sweet. You’re welcome.

    Now stop thinking about your Resolutions and make this pie!!

    This Butterscotch Apple Pie is absolute heaven! Lightly spiced apples baked inside a flakey all-butter crust with brown sugar butterscotch sauce!

    Apple Butterscotch Pie

    Chef Lindsey
    This Apple Butterscotch Pie is absolute heaven! Lightly spiced apples baked inside a flakey all-butter pie crust with a homemade brown sugar butterscotch sauce! 
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    Prep Time 45 minutes
    Cook Time 1 hour
    Total Time 1 hour 45 minutes
    Course Dessert
    Cuisine American
    Servings 12 people

    Ingredients
     

    • 14 cups apples (pealed, cored and diced. [I used a mixture of Gala, Granny Smith & Braeburn])
    • 2 Lemons (Juiced)
    • ⅛ teaspoon cardamom
    • ½ teaspoon cinnamon
    • ¼ teaspoon kosher salt
    • ½ cup light brown sugar (not packed)
    • 1 tablespoon cornstarch

    3 cups butterscotch sauce [Make a double batch of this recipe]

      Pie Crust for a double crust pie [my favorite flakey crust recipe & videos here]

        Optional Toppings for Crust

        • Heavy cream
        • Turbinado or sanding sugar
        Makes: 9inch9 x 9inch round
        US Customary - Metric

        Instructions
         

        • Roll out half the pie dough and line a 9 or 10 inch deep-dish pie dish; refrigerate. Roll out the second half of the pie dough for the top crust, place on a baking sheet and refrigerate.
        • In a large bowl mix together the apples, lemon juice, cardamom, cinnamon, salt, brown sugar and cornstarch.
        • Pour half of the filling into the pie dish and then pour approximately 1 ½ cups butterscotch sauce on top. Mound the remaining apple filling on top, creating a mound in the center. Pour the remaining sauce on top.
        • Cover the pie with your second crust and decoratively crimp the edges. Try to get as good a seal as you can so the butterscotch sauce stays inside the pie! Refrigerate the pie on a parchment lined baking sheet for 20 minutes.
        • Remove pie from the refrigerator and cut some vent holes near the top. Lightly brush the pastry with heavy cream, making sure it doesn’t pool anywhere because this will make your crust soggy, and then sprinkle generously with sanding sugar.
        • Bake 20 minutes at 425, then lower the oven temperature to 350 and continue baking for 1 hour or until the filling is soft and bubbly and the crust is brown. You can test the filling by inserting a knife into one of the vent holes. There should be no resistance from the apples! Let cool before cutting or serving. I know, the agony!

        Notes

        If you use sweeter apples, omit the extra brown sugar.
        A double batch of the butterscotch sauce will be enough for this pie with about 1 cup left over for drizzling on top!
        You can make the filling the night before and refrigerate in the bowl for assembly the next day if you wish.
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        1. Kristi @ My SF Kitchen says

          January 16, 2016 at 12:32 am

          Great shot of that butterscotch sauce! *drool*

          Reply
        2. Mary Frances says

          January 12, 2016 at 12:35 pm

          Oh my, this looks incredible 🙂

          Reply
          • Lindsey says

            January 12, 2016 at 12:57 pm

            Thanks, Mary!

            Reply
        3. Laura @ Laura's Culinary Adventures says

          January 12, 2016 at 7:50 am

          There is a place for pie year round! I like the yummy spices and flavors in your apple pie! Yum!

          Reply
          • Lindsey says

            January 12, 2016 at 12:58 pm

            I agree, Laura!!!!

            Reply
        4. Medha @ Whisk & Shout says

          January 11, 2016 at 5:53 pm

          CARDAMOM FOR THE WIN! Obsessed with how you snuck it in here, and loving that dreamy butterscotch sauce 🙂

          Reply
          • Lindsey says

            January 12, 2016 at 1:00 pm

            Haha! Yay cardamom!!! Thanks, Medha

            Reply
        5. Shashi at RunninSrilankan says

          January 11, 2016 at 3:21 pm

          So glad you haven't abandoned your obsession with Cardamom because combining it with cinnamon and a touch of almond extract has me swooning! Or maybe the swooning is because my blood sugar is low in which case - quick hand me this WHOLE pie and ALL the sauce - only way for me to feel better 🙂
          This seriously is fantastic! Oh BTW - my daughter and I used your 2 knoves method when we made gluten free pie crusts for pecan pie this Christmas past - we had so much fun - thanks so much for those videos!

          Reply
          • Lindsey says

            January 12, 2016 at 1:01 pm

            Oh the butterscotch sauce! Swoon is right! I;m so glad you tried the 2 knives method...it's definitely fun when you do it with someone else! 🙂

            Reply
        6. David @ Spiced says

          January 11, 2016 at 8:38 am

          Ah, I'm glad to see you back on the dessert train, Lindsey! Now if only that train made a stop up north...maybe you could just swing by Penn Station today and load one of these pies on the Adirondack Express for me? Kthx. 🙂

          Reply
          • Lindsey says

            January 12, 2016 at 1:02 pm

            LOL! I have a feeling the pies wouldn't quite make it to upstate! But i hear butterscotch sauce and curling are a wonderful pairing! 😉

            Reply
        7. Kristine | Kristine's Kitchen says

          January 10, 2016 at 11:15 pm

          That butterscotch sauce looks incredible! And what better to do with it than pour it over pie?! I'll take a big slice!

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          • Lindsey says

            January 12, 2016 at 1:03 pm

            In the pie, on the pie! I have zero self control! Thanks Kristine!

            Reply
        8. Jessica @ Sweetest Menu says

          January 10, 2016 at 5:26 pm

          10 days? That seems rather excessive! 😉 This pie looks incredible hun, that butterscotch sauce - I'm in golden syrupyheaven!

          Reply
          • Lindsey says

            January 12, 2016 at 1:05 pm

            I know right?! But it seemed appropriate for those trying to be healthy in the New Year...not that I am in the camp!

            Reply

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