This week was our twice a month Activity Day for the 8-11 year old girls at church. When I asked them what were some of the things they wanted to learn in Activity Days one of the answers I got from quite of few of them was cook/bake. So this week we decided to teach them to make pies. We made French Crumb Apple Pie. Teaching 9 girls how to make a pie in one hour is a little overwhelming. My first word of advice is – get help! I have a co-leader who was there and then we asked one of the moms to stay and help and I am so glad she was there!. I wanted each of the girls to be able to go home with a pie -ready to put in their oven and bake so their family could enjoy it. Thanks to a lot of help we were able to do that.
The focus of the activity was to learn how to make a good pie crust. I used my Perfect Pie Crust Tutorialand the tips I share with you there to teach the girls. Each of the girls brought a bowl, a rolling pin, butter, shortening and apples. I provided the flour and the other ingredients need for the pie. We had a little lesson in the best way to measure flour which is scoop and level.
We decided to make a French Apple Crumb Pie so they only needed one pie crust.
The hardest thing was to try to get the girls not to overhandle their pie crust and sneak all the cinnamon sugar coated apples out of the pie!!
Since we didn’t have time nor the space in my oven to bake 9 pies the girls took them home ready to pop into the oven.
Servings: 1 pie
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Pie Crust
- 1 perfect pie crust tutorial
- Recipe makes two pie crusts only need one for pie
Apple Filling
- 6-7 C sliced peeled apples (about 7) I like to use a tart apple such as granny smith
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 C sugar
French Crumb Topping
- 1/3 C butter
- 1/3 C brown sugar
- 1/2 C flour
Apple Filling:
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Combine apples, sugar and cinnamon in a bowl and toss to coat apples. Place apples in unbaked pie crust. Top with French Crumb Topping. Bake at 375 for 45-50 minutes or until apples are tender. If pie begins to brown too much cover with a piece of foil and remove for the last 5 minutes of baking.
French Crumb Topping:
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Mix together butter and sugar. Add in flour and combine until crumbly. Sprinkle over the top of apples in the pie plate.
