Gluten Free Bisquick & Apple Pie

Ever since I found Gluten Free Bisquick I have been using it more and more in cooking and baking. It definitely makes great pancakes and waffles, but I have also used it in cooking breaded chicken. After chatting and the weather changing I decided I wanted to make an apple pie. I was bored and was given a recipe for a pie crust that uses the gluten free Bisquick. The recipe needed some tweaking as I made it though, so here is what it wound up being.

Crust:

1 Cup Gluten Free Bisquick

6 Tbs chilled butter

5 Tbs water

Mix the butter and Bisquick in a bowl until it is clumped. Then add the water to help roll it in a ball. Place the ball in a well greased pie pan and spread it to the pan. Place in the oven at 350º for 10-15 minutes. 

Let pie shell cool while making the filling

Filling:

8 Granny Smith apples

2 Tbs cinnamon 

2 Tbs nutmeg 

1 Tsp vanilla extract 

1/2 cup white sugar 

1 Tbs water

Peal all the apples and slice them. Place in a bowl and cover the apples with the cinnamon, nutmeg, sugar, and vanilla. I like doing it all at once, you can mix the ingredients in a separate bowl first if you would rather. Add the water and mix everything with the apples. Make sure that the apples are well coated with everything. Place the coated apples in the pie shell.

Here is the tricky part that I have not mastered yet, and need to play with more to figure out... The top... I used the crust recipe again for the top. I was not able to do much with it due to the consistency. It was very hard to get it on the pie flat, and I was not able to make strips out of it at all they kept breaking.

Once there is some kind of top to the pie, place it in a preheated 400º oven. Most recipes say to cook it for 40-45 minutes. I did this and it looked pretty. We let it cool and then cut into it and it was not cooked enough. We put it back in the over for an additional 30-40 minutes. This being said, I'm not sure on an exact cooking time :(. I would check it after 40 minutes and use your judgement until it is fully cooked. If it starts to brown too much you can cover it with a piece of tin foil.

In the end it tasted pretty good. I would definitely like to use some more spices next time now that I know what its like and the basics of how to cook it. It wound up being a little dried out due to all the cooking and I did not use tin foil (not too smart). When we ate it it was warm and we put ice cream onto so it wound up being great and delicious!