Caramel Cream Apple Crunch Pie

Total Time: 50 mins Cook Time: 50 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 1 unbaked pie shell (9 or 10 inch)
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/2 cup finely crushed gingersnap cookie
• 1/2 cup crisco butter flavor shortening
• 1 cup toffee roasted almonds or 1 cup plain sliced almonds, coarsely chopped
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1/2 tps. cinnamon
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 6 granny smith apples or 6 gala apples, peeled, cored, sliced into 1/4-inch slices
• 1/4 cup smuckers caramel ice cream topping
• 1 (6 ounce) container vanilla yogurt
• 1 1/2 tablespoons all-purpose flour

Recipe

• 1 topping: in small bowl, mix flour brown sugar, cinnamon and gingersnap crumbs.
• 2 cut in crisco to form crumb mixture.
• 3 stir in almond pieces.
• 4 sprinkle 1 cup of crumb mixture over pie crust. set aside the remainder.
• 5 filling: in large saucepan, combine sugars, flour, cinnamon and salt; mix in apple slices.
• 6 cook over medium heat for 8 minutes, stirring occasionally until mixture starts to thicken.
• 7 remove from heat. stir in caramel topping. blend in yogurt and flour. set aside.
• 8 pie assembly: spon filling into prepared pie crust.
• 9 sprinkle top with remaining crumbs.
• 10 place on cookie sheet for easier handling, and bake for 50 minutes, or until browned and apples are tender. cover crust with last 10 minutes if it browns too quickly.
• 11 let pie cool before cutting.
• 12 serve slices of pie with a dollop of whipped cream, if desired.
• 13 drizzle top with caramel topping.