I Tried Making Homemade McDonald’s Apple Pie | Claire Recreates
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Claire Saffitz goes to a McDonald's drive-thru to buy Apple Pies, analyzes their construction, and recreates an elevated version in her kitchen using shortcrust pastry and a cooked apple filling.
From the video
Answers: How do you make a homemade McDonald's apple pie?
- McDonald's Apple Pie
- recreating fast food at home
- shortcrust pastry
- apple pie filling
- lattice pastry technique
Ingredients
- 390 g all-purpose flour
- 2 tbsp sugar
- 2 tsp kosher salt
- 2 1/2 sticks unsalted butter
- 2/3 cup ice water
- 2 Honeycrisp apples
- 2 Pink Lady apples
- 2 tbsp granulated sugar
- 2 tbsp demerara sugar
- 1 pinch salt
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp apple cider vinegar
- 1 tsp Angostura bitters
- 1 1/2 tbsp butter
- 1 cup apple juice
- 4 tsp cornstarch
- milk
What it concludes
- McDonald's apple pie uses a pastry that is crumbly, pale, and tastes of oil and cinnamon with a thickened, spiced apple filling.
- Making shortcrust pastry with a food processor and cold ingredients yields a buttery pastry with good lamination and structure for hand pies.
- Macerating diced apples with sugar, spices, and bitters before cooking draws out juices for the pie filling.
- Brushing the lattice pastry tops with milk provides an even golden-brown browning and helps hydrate the surface in the oven.
- Homemade apple hand pies taste superior to store-bought versions because of the rich pastry flavor and generous apple filling.
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