Apple Slab Pie with Spiced Glaze

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With a flaky crust, tender apples and warm spices, this delicious handheld pie in slab form will instantly win you over! You get more crust per serving than you would with a normal pie, it is easy to eat with your hands which immediately raises its crave-able factor since I can hold it in one hand while juggling one of the kids with the other.  Finally it is topped with all the flavors in the pie because we use all the leftover spiced liquids from the apples in the glaze. My husband and I have this joke when we try to argue our point and it goes something like this conversation between Toby and Michael on the Office. In the spirit of Toby, this pie is flaky and tender and warm and covered in a runny delicious glaze that you can eat with your hands…is that not enough? should I keep going?Apple Slab SideThis blog may only be five weeks old, but my love for food blogs has been alive and well for probably a decade now. I began by bookmarking sites in my browser only to have to find alternatives to that when I found out I had thousands of them! Then I thought, I’ll be smart, so I emailed them to myself in Gmail. Finally, I just started making them into word documents and saving them to a recipe folder I could reference. All of this in the Pre-Pinterest days!

Why the trip down memory lane? Because the blog this recipe comes from is one of the first I ever really fell in love with. The photos, the recipes, the sheer unabashed love of using butter (I mean c’mon this recipe uses 3 sticks)! My love for Smitten Kitchen has been riding a high for a very, very long time. I sat down with my recipes, sorted all the ones from her blog and decided I needed to make one. Over the years I have made so many, it became difficult to choose. Part of me wanted to make the Tomato Scallion Shortcakes that are proudly featured on the cover of her cookbook, but that seemed like a bandwagon fan sort of thing to do. I wanted to show the b-side to my mixtape of Smitten Kitchen love. This Apple Slab Pie is it! It is a very recent recipe, only a couple of years old, but it is one of our favorites! It also does remarkably well in crowd settings, which I appreciated since I sent this to my husband’s office iced, and with a metal spatula. The tiny sliver that came back home tells me it was a hit! I find that we always end up with roughly 1 or 2 servings left and I think it is because his office is full of people too nice to be the person who takes the last piece. I have no such shame!

To Make the Pie Crust:Butter


Using a food processor, process the flour, sugar and salt for a couple of seconds. Add in the butter cubes and pour water into the top feeder of the food processor slowly while pulsing the mixture until it resembles pea sized pieces.
Take the dough out of the processor and knead together a couple of times just to form a rough ball.Pie Dough
Cut into two pieces, flatten each like a disc and wrap tightly with saran wrap. Put in the refrigerator for at least an hour.

Heat oven oven to 375 degrees. Line bottom of  10×15 jellyroll pan with parchment paper. You can alternately use a regular rectangular pan, a jelly roll pan just makes for a prettier presentation.

To make the filling:
Toss the cut apples with the lemon juice. Add the sugar, cornstarch, cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice and salt. Filling Pre-Mix


Mix well.FillingTo Make the pie:
On a lightly floured smooth surface, roll one of your dough halves into a rectangle about an inch bigger than your pan on all sides. Put the crust into the pan and use that extra inch surround to make the crust into a wall going up the sides of the pan.Crust

Roll out the second disk of dough into another rectangle. Scoop the apples out, leaving behind the juices. Put apples onto crust.Pie Filled
Cover the apples with the second crust and crimp the two crusts together to form a tight seal.Pie Crust

Cut 6-8 small 1 inch vents on the pie to prevent the crust from having steam trapped inside. Brush with the heavy cream. Top with coarse sanding sugar. Bake for 40-45 minutes until the crust is golden brown and the insides of the slits show it bubbling. Transfer to a wire rack to cool.Crisp Crust
In the meantime, using the bowl that had the apples, add in the powdered sugar and mix. Pour the glaze in any pattern you’d like over the cooled pie.Pouring Icing

Enjoy! What you don’t finish today is good for a couple of days at room temperature.
We reheated in the oven at 350 degrees for 10 minutes and it was fantastic!A flaky crust, tender apples, warm spices, it's a delicious handheld pie in slab form, which means you get more crust per bite! It is topped with all the flavors in the pie because it uses all the leftover spiced liquids from the apples!

A flaky crust, tender apples, warm spices, it's a delicious handheld pie in slab form, which means you get more crust per bite! It is topped with all the flavors in the pie because it uses all the leftover spiced liquids from the apples!
A flaky crust, tender apples, warm spices, it's a delicious handheld pie in slab form, which means you get more crust per bite! It is topped with all the flavors in the pie because it uses all the leftover spiced liquids from the apples!
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Apple Slab Pie with Spiced Glaze

A flaky crust, tender apples, warm spices, it's a delicious handheld pie in slab form, which means you get more crust per bite! It is topped with all the flavors in the pie because it uses all the leftover spiced liquids from the apples!
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Keyword apple pie, Apple Slab Pie with Spiced Glaze, apples
Prep Time 1 hour
Cook Time 40 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 40 minutes
Servings 24 Pieces
Calories 161 kcal
Author Sabrina Snyder

Ingredients

  • 3 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 tablespoons sugar
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
  • 3 sticks unsalted butter , very cold, diced into cubes
  • 3/4 cup very cold water
  • 10 apples , peeled, cored and cubed into 3/4 inch cubes (I used half Grannysmith, half Fuji)
  • juice of one lemon
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 3 tablespoons cornstarch
  • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
  • 1/4 teaspoon ground allspice
  • 1/8 teaspoon table salt
  • 1/4 cup heavy cream , for brushing
  • coarse sanding sugar
  • 1 cup confectioners’ sugar
  • the juice left over from the filling

Instructions

  1. To Make the Pie Crust:
  2. Using a food processor, process the flour, sugar and salt for a couple of seconds.
  3. Add in the butter cubes and pour water into the top feeder of the food processor slowly while pulsing the mixture until it resembles pea sized pieces.
  4. Take the dough out of the processor and knead together a couple of times just to form a rough ball.
  5. Cut into two pieces, flatten each like a disc and wrap tightly with saran wrap.
  6. Put in the refrigerator for at least an hour.

  7. Heat oven oven to 375 degrees.
  8. Line bottom of 10x15x1-inch jellyroll pan with parchment paper. You can alternately use a regular rectangular pan, a jelly roll pan just makes for a prettier presentation.
  9. To make the filling:
  10. Toss the cut apples with the lemon juice
  11. Add the sugar, cornstarch, cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice and salt.
  12. Mix well.
  13. To Make the pie:
  14. On a lightly floured smooth surface, roll one of your dough halves into a rectangle about an inch bigger than your pan on all sides.
  15. Put the crust into the pan and use that extra inch surround to make the crust into a wall going up the sides of the pan.
  16. Roll out the second disk of dough into another rectangle
  17. Scoop the apples out, leaving behind the juices.
  18. Put apples onto crust.
  19. Cover the apples with the second crust and crimp the two crusts together to form a tight seal.
  20. Cut 6-8 small 1 inch vents on the pie to prevent the crust from having steam trapped inside.
  21. Brush with the heavy cream.
  22. Top with coarse sanding sugar.
  23. Bake for 40-45 minutes until the crust is golden brown and the insides of the slits show it bubbling.

  24. Transfer to a wire rack to cool.
  25. In the meantime, using the bowl that had the apples, add in the powdered sugar and mix. Pour the glaze in any pattern you'd like over the cooled pie.
  26. Enjoy! What you don't finish today is good for a couple of days at room temperature.
  27. We reheated in the oven at 350 degrees for 10 minutes and it was fantastic!

Recipe Notes

Adapted from Smitten Kitchen

Nutrition Facts
Apple Slab Pie with Spiced Glaze
Amount Per Serving
Calories 161 Calories from Fat 9
% Daily Value*
Fat 1g2%
Cholesterol 3mg1%
Sodium 159mg7%
Potassium 103mg3%
Carbohydrates 36g12%
Fiber 2g8%
Sugar 17g19%
Protein 2g4%
Vitamin A 80IU2%
Vitamin C 3.5mg4%
Calcium 10mg1%
Iron 1mg6%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

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About the Author: Sabrina Snyder

Sabrina is a professionally trained Private Chef of over 10 years with ServSafe Manager certification in food safety. She creates all the recipes here on Dinner, then Dessert, fueled in no small part by her love for bacon.

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  1. I love baking desserts but one thing always throws me when reading recipes. What amount is a stick of butter? I buy butter in 1 pound blocks.

  2. I made this yesterday and followed the directions to a T except I used my own pie crust recipe. It was very easy and I liked the glaze on top. That said, I felt that the spices could have been bumped up a bit on the filling. I used a combo of apples (Jazz, Pink Lady and Granny Smith) and they all cooked beautifully. I will be making this again but I’ll add more spices.

  3. This looks amazing for larger groups! I’m always timid to make apple pie when it only serves so many. YUM!

    1. Yes! That is why I sent it to my hubby’s office. I sent a spatula so they could section off the size they wanted too. It was a hit!

  4. Yum! This looks so good. I love apple anything so I will be trying this one. It looks amazingly good!

  5. I love the idea of a slab pie! This allows for more servings and helps people who can’t make a pretty pie. I love the idea myself!

    1. Thanks! I never thought of it being easier to make it look pretty. That is so true! I do have to say I made it because it meant more crust!

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