Description
This Swedish Apple Pie is a cozy, crustless dessert featuring tender cinnamon and cardamom-spiced apples beneath a lightly sweetened, soft cake-like topping. Easy to make and perfect for fall, it requires simple ingredients and bakes to a golden, bubbling perfection.
Ingredients
Scale
Filling
- 2 pounds apples, peeled, cored, and cut into ½ inch thick slices
- ¼ cup sugar
- 1 tablespoon freshly squeezed lemon juice
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon ground cardamom
- Pinch of salt
Topping
- 1 cup flour
- ¾ cup packed light brown sugar
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ cup unsalted butter, melted and cooled
- Turbinado sugar for sprinkling
- Butter for greasing the pie plate
Instructions
- Prepare the oven and pie plate: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 9-inch deep dish pie plate with butter and set aside.
- Mix the apple filling: In a large bowl, toss the sliced apples with sugar, lemon juice, cinnamon, cardamom, and a pinch of salt until evenly coated. Transfer the mixture into the prepared pie plate.
- Prepare the dry ingredients: Whisk together the flour, salt, and baking powder in a medium bowl. Set aside.
- Make the wet batter: In a large bowl, whisk melted butter, brown sugar, egg, and vanilla extract together until well combined.
- Combine to form batter: Gently fold the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients with a rubber spatula until just combined to form the topping batter.
- Assemble the pie: Spread the batter evenly over the apples in the pie plate. Sprinkle turbinado sugar on top for a crunchy finish.
- Bake the pie: Place in the oven and bake for about 50 minutes, or until the topping is golden brown and the apples are bubbling around the edges.
- Cool and serve: Allow the pie to cool before slicing so the filling sets properly. Serve plain or with easy vanilla sauce for a traditional complement.
Notes
- Granny Smith apples are preferred for their tartness, but any apple variety can be used.
- Cooling the pie before cutting is important to get clean slices, as warm filling will be soft and runny.
- Serving with a simple vanilla sauce enhances the flavor and provides a classic touch.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 slice (1/12 of pie)
- Calories: 221
- Sugar: 25g
- Sodium: 126mg
- Fat: 8g
- Saturated Fat: 5g
- Unsaturated Fat: 2.4g
- Trans Fat: 0.3g
- Carbohydrates: 37g
- Fiber: 2g
- Protein: 2g
- Cholesterol: 34mg
