2010 Applefest Bake Off - Category Apple Bread
The baking category for the 2010 Applefest Bake Off will be Apple Bread!
More information and an apple-cation will be coming soon..
The winning Apple Pie entries for 2009 are:
1st Place: Loraine Woehr - Harvest Apple Pie
2nd Place: Sabrina Poppe - Sabrina's Cute Crumple
3rd Place: Sue Oeder - Sue Oeder's Apple Pie
The 1st place recipe: Harvest Apple Pie, by Loraine Woehr
Pie Crust:
1 3/4 cups all purpose flour
1/2 tsp salt
8 3/4 tblsp unsalted butter
3 tblsp cold water
Filling:
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup white sugar
1 tbsp all-purpose flour
1 tsp cinnamon, ground
Dash of salt
3 1/2 cups peeled and chopped Paula Red apples
1 - 8 ounce jar Apple Sauce
1 tbsp lemon juice
2 tbsp butter, small pieces
Sift together flour and salt. Place in food processor, adding butter (chopped small) on top of flour. Process until mixture is the size of small crumbs. Pour into bowl ad add 3 Tblsp cold water and mix until it forms a ball. More water can be added if necessary. Shape dough into a ball and wrap in cling film and refrigerate for about 60 minutes until firm.
Flour surface and roll out dough. Place dough in pie pan trimming to outside of pie pan. Form a ball with leftover dough and cut into stripes.
Make filling - Combine sugar, flour, cinnamon, and salt in a bowl. Stir in apples, apple sauce, and lemon juice. Spoon apple mixture into pie pan and dot with butter. Using the stripes leftover from the dough, arrange in a lattice top on top of the pie.
Bake at 425 degrees F for 10 minutes, then reduce heat to 350 degrees F and continue to bake for 45 minutes or until crust is golden brown.
We would also like to say Thank you and acknowledge our 4 judges: Nicole Burke, Gerald Miller, Steven Mullinger, and Lee Pennekamp, and also Char Flick and the Lebanon Conservancy group for the use of the Nixon-Brant House for the contest.
18 Apple Pie entries
2nd and 3rd place winners
Our panel of judges