Apple Pie Pizza
Author: Pizza Today
Recipe type: desserts
Serves: 1-1/2 cups streusel.
Ingredients
- Streusel Topping
- ½ cup unbleached all-purpose floour
- ½ cup packed light brown sugar
- ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
- 4 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into bits
Instructions
- In a small mixing bowl, combine the flour brown sugar, cinnamon and granulated sugar.
- Cut the butter into the flour mixture with your fingertips or a pastry blender to form small crumbles. You will have
Apple Pie Pizza
Author: Pizza Today
Recipe type: desserts
Ingredients
- The Rest
- 3-4 large Granny Smith apples (about 2-1/2 pounds). peeled, cored and cut into 14-inch slices
- 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 2 tablespoons light brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 3 tablespoons apricot jam or preserves
- 1 14-inch pizza shell
Instructions
- In a mixing bowl, combine the apples with the lemon juice.
- In a saute pan over high heat melt the butter until it just begins to froth.
- Add the apple slices and cook, stirring occasionally, for 4 minutes.
- Add the brown sugar and cinnamon and cook for 2 minutes or until the apples are barely tender. Transfer the apples to a bowl (let cool for 10 minutes if you are going to make the pizza at one).
- In a small saucepan, heat the apricot jam until it liquefies.
- Set aside.
- Brush the entire top of the crust, including the border (or edge), with the apricot jam.
- Spread the reserved apples evenly over the crust.
- Sprinkle the streusel over the apples.
- Bake the pizza in a preheated 450 F oven for 15 minutes.
- Let the pizza stand for about 10 minutes before cutting and serving.