I made tried apple pie recipes from Gordon Ramsay, Ree Drummond, and Alton Brown. The best was the easiest to make.

• I made pome pastry utilizing recipes from Gordon Ramsay, Ree Drummond, and Alton Brown to find nan best.
• Ramsay's was nan easiest to make compared to Brown's, which took each time to prep, bake, and chill.
• Drummond's buttery caramel-filled pastry was my favorite, cleanable to make for fall.

I don't person a go-to recipe for pome pie truthful I decided to trial immoderate from Gordon Ramsay, Ree Drummond, and Alton Brown.

Here's really it went.

Ramsay's pastry look uses caramelized apples

For many pastry recipes, you tin propulsion successful nan earthy apples — tossed pinch spices, citrus juice, immoderate flour, and sweetener first — into nan crust, and they'll soften arsenic they bake. But Ramsay's pome pie adds extent to nan filling by caramelizing nan apples first.

It includes a simple, sweet-tart pastry crust, positive bitter apples, butter, sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, and ovum wash.

This was nan easiest pastry to make, but nan crust gave maine immoderate trouble

The full pastry is made pinch room staples, and it came together successful nary time.

I started by creaming food and sweetener together successful a nutrient processor. I added an ovum and all-purpose flour to shape nan crust.

Once nan mixed started to instrumentality together, I placed it onto a floured cutting committee to knead it. I rolled it retired somewhat and wrapped it pinch integrative to chill successful nan fridge for 30 minutes.

While nan pastry crust chilled, I worked connected caramelizing nan apples for nan filling. I coated them pinch cinnamon, nutmeg, and sugar, past heated immoderate food successful a pan.

I cooked half of nan cinnamon-sugar apples astatine a clip to debar crowding nan pan.

I fto them navigator for astir 10 minutes per batch. They smelled astonishing and made my full flat smell good, too.

After 30 minutes successful nan fridge, I removed nan mixed onto a floured activity surface, trim it successful half, and rolled 1 portion out. 

When it was clip to assistance nan crust into a tin, it fell apart.

I was capable to spot it up and luckily nan apical crust rolled retired and wasn't excessively patchy aliases torn.

Finally, I brushed nan apical crust pinch egg wash, radiated it pinch sugar, and baked nan pastry for astir 40 minutes.

Despite nan crust issues, nan pastry turned retired awesome and looked amended than I expected

The crust was crispy and flaky, though nan caramelized juices did leak retired a spot on nan edges, making immoderate parts other crispy and difficult to trim into. 

The pome filling was flavorful, thick, and gooey. 

My only title is that I wanted much apples successful nan stuffing. Ramsay's look called for astir 4 apples, but nan others I tested had 7 aliases eight.

The constituent database for Drummond's pome pastry was agelong and featured a crumbly topping

Drummond's look for caramel-apple pie has a agelong database of ingredients for each component: nan crust, nan filling, and nan topping.

This look uses Granny Smith apples for nan filling, but nan astir notable portion was nan amount of butter and shortening it needs.

The mixed for nan crust includes 12 tablespoons of food and astir a cup of rootlike shortening, aliases lard. The topping includes different instrumentality and a half of butter.

This pastry took a mates of hours to make

Despite nan intimidating database of ingredients, this pastry was beautiful easy and speedy to make.

I made nan crust first, and because I didn't person a pastry cutter, I had to activity nan food and shortening into nan flour and herb mix pinch my fingers.

I trim it into 2 pieces, formed 2 dough balls, and stored each successful a integrative bag, rolling them retired somewhat truthful they'd beryllium easier to activity pinch later. I fto them chill successful nan freezer for 20 minutes while I prepared nan filling.

The filling was easy to make. All I had to do was harvester diced apples pinch sugar, flour, salt, and lemon juice.

I removed 1 mixed shot from nan freezer, which was a breeze to rotation out. It didn't instrumentality to nan cutting committee aliases rolling pin and transferred easy to nan pastry tin.

The mixed look makes capable for 2 pies, truthful I kept nan other successful nan freezer and ended up making a 2nd pastry later on.

I added nan filling to nan pastry crust, and past started moving connected nan crumble topping.

Again, I had to activity nan food into nan flour for nan topping pinch my hands earlier adding brownish sugar, a small salt, and oats.

I added nan topping to nan pastry and put it successful nan oven for an hour.

I'm gladsome I put a baking expanse connected nan bottommost rack of my oven because nan pastry dripped a batch while it baked. 

After an hour, I poured pecans connected nan apical of nan crust and baked it for different 5 minutes. When it came retired of nan oven, I topped it pinch half of a jar of premade caramel sauce.

This buttery, sugar-loaded pastry was truthful delicious that I made a 2nd one

Unfortunately, erstwhile I trim into nan lukewarm pie, it wholly fell isolated and looked much for illustration an pome crumble. But it still tasted amazing.

The bottommost crust wasn't soggy astatine all, but it was truthful flaky it couldn't clasp nan weight of nan apples. I stored nan pastry successful nan fridge and erstwhile I trim acold slices of it, each portion held together.

The crust was incredibly buttery and flaky, and nan added spices successful nan crust kept it flavorful.

The softened apples contrasted perfectly pinch nan crunchy topping. I made a 2nd pastry with nan leftover crust and omitted nan nuts for my partner, who is allergic, and nan topping was still very crispy.

The added caramel connected apical mightiness make this pastry a spot excessively rich, but it's still really, really good.

I enjoyed it some plain and à la mode. It deed nan spot each time.

Brown's saccharine and spicy pastry has a shortcrust and 1 herb that was difficult to find 

The ingredients for Brown's pome pie are beautiful standard, but I did person to bid nan grains of paradise for nan filling online because nary market stores adjacent maine carried it.

The crust includes butter, shortening, flour, sugar, salt, and 1 astonishing ingredient: apple brandy.

The filling besides included different types of apples, salt, sugar, pome jelly, apple cider, lime juice, and tapioca flour.

This pastry is an all-day affair

I started by chilling nan brandy, butter, and shortening for nan pastry crust successful nan fridge for an hour.

Once it was acold I started making nan crust successful nan nutrient processor per nan recipe's instructions.

After nan mixed was ready, I divided it into 2 pieces, wrapped them, and chilled them successful nan fridge for a fewer hours. The look advises chilling nan mixed for astatine slightest 1 hr aliases up to each night.

I sliced nan apples into wedges and mixed them pinch sugar.

I had to fto them drain complete a vessel for an hr and a half. I cooked the juice on nan stove until it was reduced to astir 2 tablespoons.

This substance was meant to switch an ovum wash, but it was excessively sticky and tore nan apical crust. I was only capable to brushwood connected a mini magnitude crossed nan apical of nan pie.

After they drained, I tossed nan apples pinch nan tapioca flour, sugar, pome jelly, pome cider, lime juice, and nan freshly-ground grains of paradise, which were not easy to grind.

The mixed was beautiful manageable to rotation retired and held together arsenic I transferred it into nan pastry tin. I placed a pastry vertebrate successful nan halfway and past layered nan apples into nan center.

I topped nan pastry pinch nan 2nd portion of mixed for nan apical crust and crimped nan edges.

I tried brushing nan reduced pome juice connected top, but it kept tearing nan crust truthful I gave up.

I baked nan pastry for 30 minutes connected nan bottommost of nan oven, past 20 minutes connected nan little rack.

I had to screen nan edges pinch foil halfway done baking because they were browning excessively much.

The toughest portion was letting nan pastry remainder for astatine slightest 4 hours earlier enjoying a slice.

I thought some nan crust and nan filling were a small bland

After hours of chilling nan dough, draining nan apples, and cooling nan pie, I was fresh to eat it.

But it wasn't arsenic bully arsenic I had hoped. The crust was a small barren and somewhat overdone.

The halfway tasted powerfully of pome but thing else. I didn't get immoderate hints of spiciness from nan grains of paradise.

I would person loved much spices for illustration cinnamon aliases nutmeg for much flavor.

Overall, this pastry took nan longest, and I wouldn't make it again.

Drummond's pome pastry is my caller go-to, but I'd make Ramsay's look again

Anything loaded pinch food and sweetener is bound to beryllium delicious, and that's decidedly nan lawsuit pinch Drummond's caramel-apple pie. It's rich | and indulgent, and I dream to make it for galore Thanksgiving and autumn dinners to come.

For a classical pastry pinch crust alternatively of a crumble topping, I would make Ramsay's look again but pinch double nan number of apples for nan filling.

Both of these pies were beautiful easy to make and turned retired to beryllium very awesome for homemade creations.

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This communicative was primitively published connected September 25, 2021, and astir precocious updated connected October 24, 2024.