Dutch Apple Pie Recipe
The Roasted Mom’s Dutch Apple Pie Recipe
While it should be no surprise that I am the cook of the Roasted family, few of you will know that The Roasted Mom is the baker. She’s been making this traditional Dutch apple pie for me since we first got together fourteen years ago, and the Cape Town weather this week sure called for a slice of hot Dutch apple pie!
Lianne was born in Pijnacker, a small town in between Rotterdam and The Hague in The Netherlands. After growing up matriculating, she went to the United States to work as an au pair and have a gap year. After a brief stint in Spain, she settled in sunny South Africa and I’m so glad she did! Lianne and I met in Gqeberha (then Port Elizabeth) in 2010. We got married in 2013 and moved to Cape Town, where we had our children Aiden, Olivia and Harvey in 2017, 2020 and 2022 respectively.
Preparation Time: 45 minutes
Time in the Oven: 55 minutes
Ingredients for the Dough
600 grams flour
250 grams castor sugar
A pinch of Salt
400 grams butter at room temperature
2 eggs
How to Prepare the Sweet Pie Dough
The Apple Pie crust is my absolute favourite! It almost tastes like shortbread. Whenever Lianne is making this dough, I always steal pieces. You’re not supposed to eat raw egg as you could get salmonella poisoning, so follow my bad habit at your own risk!
Cut the butter in small pieces, add the (sifted) sugar and mixed.
Sift the flour and mix it bit-by-bit in with the butter and sugar.
Add the two egg yolks (keep the egg whites for later) and knead everything into a cohesive ball of dough.
Grease a spring form (24 cm wide) and push 2/3 of the dough into the form.
Put the form and the leftover dough in the fridge to set.
Ingredients for the Filling
100 grams of raisins
1 kg apples
2 teaspoons of cinnamon
Final touch:2 egg whites (leftovers from the dough)
How to Make the Dutch Apple Pie
Preheat the oven to 140˚C.
Peel the apples and cut them in pieces. Mix the raisins and cinnamon through the apple pieces. Add them to on top of the dough in the spring form.
Roll out the leftover dough on a flour-dusted workspace. Cut the dough in slices of about 1 cm wide. Cover the pie with the slices in a zigzag pattern.
Beat the egg whites until frothy, then brush over the dough so it bakes up more golden.
Put the pie one below the middle in the oven and bake it for about 55 minutes until golden brown. Only remove the spring form once it has cooled down.
Serving: Sprinkle the apple pie with some powdered/icing sugar and serve with either cream or ice cream.
Enjoy! Please tag me on Instagram if you’ve made this recipe, I’d love to see it!
About Shawn Godfrey
Photo credit: Niki M Photography
Shawn Godfrey is an entrepreneur based in Cape Town, South Africa. After the Covid-19 lockdown saw his business in financial distress, cooking was the creative outlet that helped to keep him sane. To keep track of his recipes, and encourage friends and families to join him, he starts his instagram account The Roasted Dad.
Fast-forward to late 2021 - on a whim Shawn (encouraged by his wife Lianne) enters MasterChef South Africa. It is a crazy time of life: running a 200 people business and struggling to keep it profitable, two small children with a third on the way, and about to move into a new house. But when Shawn gets selected to be one of the 20 contestants participating in the fourth season of MasterChef South Africa, he decides to go all in. Leaving his 7-month-pregnant wife to look after their then three and one-year-old children, he battles it out and comes back home five weeks later with the trophy and a million rand prize money in his pocket.
It all started with an Instagram account, but The Roasted Dad is so much more now. Shawn has stayed his entrepreneurial self and whilst he hosts Private Dinner Parties and Cook-with-Me Demos, does Restaurant Take-Overs, he still runs the lighting company and several other businesses.
On his blog, Shawn shares Restaurant Reviews and Accommodation Reviews, and gives an insight into the wild and wonderful life he leads together with his wife Lianne, and their three children Aiden (6), Olivia (4) and Harvey (2).
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