Easy Ina Garten’s Apple Crostata or Apple Pie Recipe

Name: Apple Crostata or Free form Apple Pie
Prep time: 60 min
Cook time: 25 min
Ingredients: 2 c flour; 1/4 c sugar; 2 sticks cold butter; 1/2 tsp salt; 1/4 c Ice water; 4-5 large apples (I used a mix of green and red) (peeled); 1 orange zested; 1/4 c flour; 4 Tbsp cold butter; 1/4 tsp salt; 1/4 tsp cinnamon; 1/8 tsp allspice; 1/8 tsp ginger; 2 Tbsp cream; 1/4 Cup Sugar

This is the Easy Ina Garten’s Apple Crostada or apple pie recipe! It is now our favorite Apple Pie recipe!!

The recipe is from this cookbook.

I can’t begin to tell you how much I have used her cookbooks! Everything turns out perfect EVERY TIME!

This apple crostata or apple pie is the best tasting “apple pie” you will ever make or eat!!

Making Ina Gartens’s apple crostata dough recipe

The crust is a buttery flaky and it is to die for!!!

You make the dough in a cuisinart food processor and it comes together quickly. Refrigerate the dough for 30 min or longer. Make sure the dough is super cold before rolling it out.

Add in chopped apples to the Crostata dough

Once you have made the dough, refrigerated it and rolled it out, you can add your chopped apples.

I like this particular apple pie because the apples are cut into chunks and you don’t bake it a long time so the apples don’t get mushy.

You can make big ones or personal sized ones….you could make cherry, pear or peach crostata’s.

Make topping for apple crostata

Make the topping by adding cold butter, orange peel, sugar, cinnamon, allspice and little salt to a bowl. Mix it up until it is crumbly and add to the top of the chopped apples.

Sprinkle the topping over the top of apples.

Folding the edges of Easy Ina Garten’s apple crostata

Now it time to fold up the edges of the Crostata.

Start at one side and pull up the pie dough almost in a pleat all around the crostata.

This holds in all the apples and topping.

The finished Easy Ina Garten apple crostata or apple pie

Bake the crostata at 450 degrees for 20-25 minutes until the crust is golden.

Try it you will love it.

It is a free form apple pie….you don’t have to put the dough into a pie pan or figure out how to place the pie dough over the top.

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Recipe

Apple Crostata or Free form Apple Pie

Ina Garten's apple crostata is the best apple pie recipe you will ever need! Flaky buttery crust envelopes chopped apples with grated orange peel, cinnamon and allspice. I add a little cream to the apples for a yummy creamy flavor.

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Keyword apple crostata, apple pie, crostata

Prep Time 1

Cook Time 25

Servings 6 people

Calories 142.64kcal

Cost 5.00

Equipment

oven
Rolling Pin
cuisinart food processor
Mixing Bowl

Ingredients

For the pie dough (makes two pie crusts)

2 c flour
1/4 c sugar
2 sticks cold butter
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 c Ice water

Apple Crostata filling

4-5 large apples (I used a mix of green and red) peeled
1 orange zested
1/4 c flour
4 Tbsp cold butter
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp cinnamon
1/8 tsp allspice
1/8 tsp ginger
2 Tbsp cream
1/4 Cup Sugar

Instructions

1. Put all of the dry ingredients in the bowl of a food processor, fitted with the dough attachment. Pulse 2 or 3 times to combine.
2. Add the butter all at once and pulse 12 to 15 times, until the butter is the size of peas.
3. Add a 1/4 cup of the ice water all at once and pulse the dough until it begins to come together around the blade.
4. Turn the dough out onto a well-floured surface and knead it a few times until you form a smooth ball. Divide the ball into two pieces and flatten each piece into a disk. Wrap in plastic wrap. If you're making one tart, place one disk in the refrigerator for an hour and freeze the other disk. Otherwise, if you're making two tarts, refrigerate both disks of dough for 30 min. to 1 hour.

Add the filling

1. Peel, core, and quarter the apples. Cut each quarter into 3 chunks. Toss the chunks with the orange zest and add cream.
2. Cover the apple tart dough with the apple chunks, leaving a 1 1/2-inch border.
3. Next, combine the flour, sugar, salt, cinnamon, allspice and ginger in a bowl. Add the butter and mix with a fork until the mixture is crumbly. You can use your fingers until it starts to stick together.
4. Sprinkle evenly on the apples. Gently fold the border over the apples, pleating it to make a circle.
5. Bake the crostata at 450 degrees for 20 to 25 minutes, or until the crust is golden and the apples are tender but not mushy.

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Welcome to Karins Kottage! There is always something fun going on! You would think after becoming an empty nester couple that our nest would be very quiet and empty but our Kottage nest is usually more full than what we started out with! You might find me hosting a birthday party or graduation party and a baby shower on the same weekend or a big outdoor get together with 25 of our friends and family in the backyard or maybe I might be in the kitchen trying out a new recipe for my hubby and I to grill on the BBQ for a quiet night for the two of us. I am passionate about entertaining and setting a beautiful table! I may or may not have an addiction to cloth napkins and fun salad plates oh and goblets too! I think I will always have a home decorating DIY project in the works as long as my hubby is on board with me haha. We have painted A LOT in the 6 homes we have owned in the 35 years that we have been married as well as re-done multiple pieces of furniture, added wall and ceiling treatments, replaced lights, bathroom fixtures and even tiled floors! I have sewn what seems like a million window treatments for our home as well as for family, made slipcovers, and duvets and even a formal dress or two!

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Ruth says:

February 19, 2023 at 3:47 pm

The directions for the crumb topping that goes on top of the appes before you bring the pastry dough up around them and pleat it states in the instructions to combine flour, sugar and spices and then add the butter. However, the ingredient list for this does not include sugar listed. I used two tablespoons of brown sugar and I thouogh it looked about right.. We will see how it turns out when it comes out of the oven. Maybe an adjustment to the ingredient list is needed on this post.
- Karins Kottage says:
  
  September 22, 2023 at 8:41 am
  
  Thank you so much for catching that! It is 1/4 cup of sugar. I have even used brown sugar and it worked out great. I hope your crostata turned out great! It is seriously my favorite apple pie recipe ever!
  
  Karin