Latticed Apple Pie

Latticed Apple Pie
By: Reader’s Digest Baking with Love

For the pastry:
2 cups flour
½ teaspoon baking powder
2/3 cup butter
2 Tablespoons honey
2 egg yolks
2 Tablespoons water

For the filling:
6 apples (1lb 5oz)
1 teaspoon lemon juice
½ cup cream
2 eggs
3 egg yolks
1 teaspoon vanilla
3 Tablespoons sugar
2/3 cup ground almonds

Use a springform pan. Grease the pan. To make the pastry, sift the flour and baking powder into a bowl. Add remaining crust ingredients. Knead to form dough. Gather into a smooth ball, wrap in wrap and chill for 30 minutes.

Set about 1/5 of the pastry aside. Roll out the rest of the pastry and line the base of the springform pan and to make an edge 1 inch high. Prick the base several times with a fork. Chill for 20 minutes.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cover pastry base with parchment paper and dried beans. Bake for 10 minutes.

Peel, core and slice the apples. Drizzle with lemon juice.

Set 1 Tablespoon cream aside and mix remaining cream, eggs, 2 egg yolks, vanilla and sugar together. Add the almonds.

Fill the pastry case with apples. Pour cream mixture over fruit.

Increase oven temperature to 400 degrees. Cut remaining pastry into thin strips and arrange on top of filling in a lattice pattern. Combine remaining egg yolk and cream and brush the lattice with the mixture. Bake for 20 minutes. Serve hot or cold. With vanilla ice cream or fresh homemade whip cream if desired.