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Apple Pie with Caramel Sauce

This apple pie with caramel sauce is a perfect healthy recipe for rainy days. Date caramel creates a healthier twist to the classic recipe.
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Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 40 minutes
Servings: 12 pieces
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Ingredients Method Notes

Ingredients
  

Pie crust
  • 300 g wholewheat flour spelt
  • 150 g coconut oil cold
  • pinch baking powder
  • 2 tsp vanilla sugar or 1 pack
  • 2 tbsp brown sugar
  • 8 tbsp ice-cold water
Apple filling
  • 700 g apples
  • 3 tsp cinnamon
  • ¼ tsp ground cloves
  • ⅓ tsp piment
  • pinch cardamom
  • 1 tsp ground ginger
  • 1 lemon juice
  • 5 tbsp bread crumbs
  • 8 tbsp caramel sauce homemade
***Caramel sauce
  • 150 g soft dates
  • 150 g coconut milk full-fat
  • 30 g maple syrup
  • 1 tsp salt

Method
 

  1. First, prepare the apples. Clean them and cut them into small pieces, about 1x1cm. Put them all into a bowl. Squeeze the juice of one lemon onto the apple pieces and mix them so they are all covered in lemon juice.
  2. Second, let's make the dough. Add the dry ingredients to the bowl and mix them well with a whisk. Then add cold coconut oil in small chunks. Knead with your hand until you get a crumbly texture with no bigger pieces of oil left. Then start adding ice-cold water. At first, add 4 tbsp and knead. Then keep adding one tbsp at a time to create a lovely ball of dough that is not too crumbly and sticks together well. Separate the dough into two halves and form two balls.
  3. Wrap them in wax wrapping paper or plastic wrap or close them into an air-tight container. Put them into the fridge for 10 minutes.
  4. In the meantime add spices to the apples and add bread crumbs too. Mix well.
  5. Fix the caramel: put everything into a smoothie maker and blend until you get a smooth and thick consistency with no chunks of dates. You can also use a hand-blender or other kind of smaller blender. Done!
  6. Take the dough out of the fridge. Take a sheet of parchment paper and roll the dough out on it. This way it's easier to get the dough into the pie tray. Roll the dough out so it's about 3 mm thick. Grease the baking tray (it's the best if it's a circular pie tray) with coconut oil and sprinkle with flour. Then place the rolled-out dough into the tray by flipping it over along with the parchment paper and removing the paper afterwards. Fix the places where it tore and then cut off the pieces that are hanging over the edge of the tray.
  7. Put apple filling into the tray lined with dough. Then add the caramel by gently spreading it around the tray on top of the apples. You could also place it inder the apples or mix it directly into the filling.
  8. Now roll out the second half of the dough the same way as you did with the first one. Place this one on top of the tray and press down on the edges around the tray to gently stick together both parts of the dough. Cut off the parts of the upper dough that are hanging over the edge of the tray. You can make some cuts in the dough on the top as a decoration or use the remaining parts of the dough to create some decorations.
  9. Bake at 180°C for 40 minutes.
  10. Serve with caramel sauce, vanilla ice-cream, some coconut whipped cream or without anything at all.

Notes

Instead of all the spices you can use a spice mix that contains these spices, i.e. pumpkin spice, ginger cookies spice etc. You can also only add cinnamon or nothing at all, but the taste will vary.