Caramel Apple Cobbler

Total Time: 1 hr 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1 tablespoon cornstarch
• 1 pinch kosher salt (less if table salt)
• 1/4 cup melted butter
• 4 granny smith apples
• 2 braeburn apples
• 3/4 cup apple juice
• 3 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
• 1/2 cup heavy whipping cream
• 2 cups flour
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2/3 cup shortening, butter flavored
• 6 tablespoons ice water
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 1 tablespoon brown sugar
• 1/2 cup chopped pecans
• 1 tablespoon egg
• 1 teaspoon sugar crystals or 1 teaspoon granulated sugar
• 1 dash cinnamon

Recipe

• 1 filling.
• 2 whisk together dry ingredients of filling in a medium bowl.
• 3 melt butter in microwave.
• 4 place apple juice and lemon juice in dutch oven.
• 5 peel, core and slice apples and place in the pot with the juices, tossing as you go.
• 6 add melted butter, cream and dry ingredients, stir.
• 7 bring to a boil over med-hi heat, stir and bring to a boil once more.
• 8 remove from heat.
• 9 crust.
• 10 preheat oven to 350f and spray 8 x 11 pyrex baking dish with pam.
• 11 while apples are cooking, make crust using your favorite 2 crust recipe or my ingredients above.
• 12 whisk dry ingredients, cut in shortening with a pastry blender or fork.
• 13 when it reaches the consistency of peas, add ice water.
• 14 gently stir with a fork until all of the flour has been absorbed.
• 15 with your hands, form the dough into a clump, then separate into two disks.
• 16 be careful not to overwork the dough once water has been added.
• 17 wrap each disk in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 5 - 10 minutes.
• 18 sprinkle flour on dough board and roll dough out into a rectangle about 8 x 11.
• 19 using a pastry cutter or knife, cut dough into strips.
• 20 repeat with second disk.
• 21 cobbler.
• 22 put strips of dough around the pyrex sides and bottom.
• 23 pour apples into cobbler.
• 24 stir together pecans, sugar and brown sugar to sprinkle on the filling.
• 25 place strips of dough on top of the cobbler, picking up strips to layer them in a lattice manner.
• 26 brush strips on top of cobbler with egg , then sprinkle with sugar crystals and a dash of cinnamon.
• 27 bake for one hour.