Crunch Top Apple Pie

  • Prep Time: 10 mins
  • Total Time: 1 hrs 10 mins
  • Serves: 6-8,Yield: 1.0pie

    • About This Recipe

    “The original recipe was a 1953 Sunset Mag recipe. I’ve added more nuts and cinnamon and less flour. It’s awsome!”

    Ingredients

  • 1cupsugar
  • 1cupgraham cracker crumbs
  • 3/4 cupchopped walnuts
  • 1/4 cupflour
  • 1teaspooncinnamon
  • 1/2 cupmelted butter
  • 6 -8 granny smith apples or 6 -8mcintosh apples, peeled, cored and sliced
  • 2teaspoonsfresh lemon juice
  • 1unbaked pie shell

    • Directions

  • Place apples in a bowl and toss with lemon juice.
  • Pour into unbaked pie shell.
  • Mix together remaining ingredients, except butter and sprinkle evenly over apples.
  • DRIZZLE melted butter over the top, cover every square inch and bake in a 350 degree oven for 1 hour.
  • Cover with foil if needed as the nuts tend to burn.
  • Serve with vanilla bean ice cream.

    • Reviews

  • “Di, I owe you an apology because I forgot to rate this pie probably because just as quickly as it was made it was gone!!!I used macintosh apples and they added such a great taste.Served warm with vanilla bean ice cream…oh soooo good!This was great and easy to make.Thanks for the recipe, I plan on making it again it was the first time ever I made an apple pie, can’t wait to make it again.”

  • “I just used the topping portion of this recipe with my own canned pie filling.It was so good.Crunchy and flavorful – that secret ingredient (graham cracker crumbs) was wonderful.My husband gobbled this pie up!!”

  • “I have been searching for this recipe for a very long time. I have made it many times and lost the recipe. It is always a favorite of anyone that tries it. My search is finally over. It’s fall. Time to bake Sunset’s Crunch Top Apple Pie”

  • “This was pretty good.. I loved the topping but did not use nuts as I did not have any.. I also cut the softened butter into the topping rather than melt it which worked well for me.The only thing I didn’t care for was that the macintosh apples came out rather mushy and hubby said they were a little too sweet, but besides that it was a pretty good pie”

  • “This crumb topping was delicious!I did make a few changes, (1) I cut softened butter into the crumb mixture before topping the pies rather than drizzling on melted butter, (2) I used half white and half brown sugar.I doubled this recipe as I needed topping for two pies — and I ended up with WAY too much topping.Great news though, the leftovers worked great for a quickly thrown together peach crisp :)Thanks for the great recipe!”

  • “I made this tonight for dessert after a big turkey dinner for friends. Was a big hit with those who could handle dessert after their 3rd helping of dinner. I will make it again and plan on bringing it home to my mother’s for Thanksgiving. Thanks Di! ***** Updated to add the stars in – sorry it took me so long Di!”

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