This amaretto apple pie recipe is a unique dessert filled with sliced apples and whole amaretto cookies. The amaretto cookies impart a wonderful almond flavor to the apple pie recipe along with some added texture. Served in slices, this pie is wonderful to serve warm with whipped cream or ice cream for a dessert.
To make this amaretto apple pie recipe, you first make a dough by mixing flour with lemon zest, baking powder, eggs, and sugar. Then, once the dough has been chilled, it gets rolled into a disk, which gets placed in a pie plate before being filled with apricot jam, apple slices, and amaretto cookies. Finally, the pie gets topped with another disk of dough before being baked in the oven. The resulting pie is so delicious with a wonderfully flaky crust and sweet apple and amaretto filling.
What is Amaretto Apple Pie?
Amaretto apple pie is a pie that is filled with apricot jam, apples, and amaretto cookies. While many pie pastries include butter, lard, salt, flour, and sugar, this one contains flour, baking powder, butter, lemon zest, and sugar, which results in a pastry crust that is full of lemony flavor and has an incredibly tender crust. Meanwhile, the addition of the amaretto cookies and apricot jam makes the pie complexly flavored with the taste of almonds and sweet syrupy jam.
Pro Tips
- Make sure your butter is softened before you begin this recipe. While most pie crust recipes require cold butter, this recipe uses soft butter instead.
- Choose apples that will hold their shape during the baking process such as Honeycrisp, Cortland, Macintosh, Golden Delicious, and more.
- If you find that the pie hasn’t quite baked through on the bottom once the baking time has elapsed, you could move it to the bottom rack in the oven so that the base is closer to the heat source.
- If you don’t have apricot jam on hand, you could replace it with apple butter to amplify the apple flavor or replace it with another type of jam. A similar-colored jam such as mango jam or pear jam would be particularly good as it wouldn’t discolor the apple filling.
Frequently Asked Questions
What are Amaretto Cookies?
Amaretto cookies are Italian cookies made with ground almonds, sugar, and egg whites. Commonly, the egg whites are whipped to soft peaks before being folded with the dry ingredients, divided into cookies, and baked in the oven. They are usually easy to find in the grocery store, but if you can’t find them, you could make your own at home as well.
Can I Use Store-bought Crust?
Yes, if you don’t love making your own pastry, rest assured that you could purchase pre-made crust to use instead. It will just have a different flavor as it won’t include the lemon zest.
Can I Freeze This Pie?
Yes, this amaretto apple pie freezes very well. Simply wrap it tightly before placing it in the freezer. It should stay fresh for up to 2 months.
How to Store Amaretto Apple Pie
This pie can be stored at room temperature for up to 2 to 3 days or in the fridge for up to 4 or 5 days. Just make sure it is tightly wrapped so it maintains its optimal freshness.
Ingredients
How to Make Amaretto Apple Pie
Preheat the oven to 350 F (180 C). In a large bowl, whisk the flour with the lemon zest and baking powder. Add the butter and mix until a crumbly mixture is formed.
Preheat the oven to 350 F (180 C). In a large bowl, whisk the flour with the lemon zest and baking powder. Add the butter and mix until a crumbly mixture is formed.
Whisk the eggs with the sugar in a bowl.
Whisk the eggs with the sugar in a bowl.
Mix the egg mixture into the flour mixture until combined. Shape it into a ball and refrigerate for 1 hour.
Mix the egg mixture into the flour mixture until combined. Shape it into a ball and refrigerate for 1 hour.
Roll the remaining pastry into a disk and place it on top of the filling. Pinch the edges to seal.
Roll two-thirds of the dough into a disk with a 2-3 mm thickness.
Brush the crust with egg wash and bake it in the oven for 40 minutes.
Place it in a 22 to 24 cm pie plate and trim the edges.
Allow the pie to cool before slicing and serving.
Spread apricot jam in the crust and top it with the apples.
Arrange the cookies on top.
Roll the remaining pastry into a disk and place it on top of the filling. Pinch the edges to seal.
Brush the crust with egg wash and bake it in the oven for 40 minutes.
Allow the pie to cool before slicing and serving.
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