Tuesdays with Dorie BWD: Mulled-Butter Apple Pie

November 27, 2023 at 5:04 pm | Posted in BWD, groups, pies & tarts, sweet things, tuesdays with dorie | 3 Comments
Tags: baking, pie

Swapping out stuffing for bread pudding wasn’t the only renegade move I made this Thanksgiving. I also traded our holiday staple pumpkin pie for Mulled-Butter Apple Pie. What is mulled-butter? It’s browned butter steeped with a cinnamon stick, a cardamom pod, black peppercorn, star anise, ginger and orange zest. This spiced butter coats the heap of apple slices (I used a combo of gold rush and cameo apples) that fill the double-crust pie. Dorie tells us to taste the filling for sweetness before we turn it into the crust, and when I did that, I thought what my apples really needed was not more sugar, but more spice. The mulling spice mix has some similarities with Chinese five-spice, which I have a jar of ground, so I added in a couple shakes of that to my filling.

I baked a half-sized pie in my little (about 6.5″) pie plate and while I was initially kind of sad about not having a slice of pumpkin pie, this came out so nicely, I couldn’t not be happy with it. The crust had great color and the filling held together just right. I decided that pumpkin pie can happen in December and I enjoyed every bite of this one.

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Just gorgeous! You definitely went rouge on Thanksgiving haha…good thing you didn’t have an uprising! It is good to always change things up now and then…keep everyone guessing haha. I am sure anything you make is absolutely delicious!!!…and everyone knows that. 🙂

Comment by isthisakeeper— November 30, 2023 #

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- thanks so much! 🙂
  
  Comment by steph (whisk/spoon)— December 3, 2023 #
  
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What a beautiful pie…gorgeous, and I love that little pie plate, my 6″ is metal so I’m thinking I should go in search of one like yours to add to my Christmas list…tis the season. I hear you on the pumpkin pie missing at Thanksgiving, so Mark requested one after Thanksgiving and I think he is just finishing that up now. Some traditions are not to be messed with here, I guess. Your pie looks so delicious.

Comment by Kayte Gerth— December 3, 2023 #

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a whisk and a spoon