Apple Pie

Ingredients:

250g hard butter
100g sugar
1 egg
500g plain flour
50g ground almond, toasted

Filling ingredients:

300ml water
130g demarar sugar
50g corn flour
3 green apples
1/2 tsp cinnamon powder
50g raisin

Method:

1. Grease a 9 inches pie dish.
2. Cream butter and sugar at medium speed for about 15 minutes until fluffy.
3. Add in egg, flour and ground almond.
4. Roll out half of the pastry to fit into the pie dish and half bake for 15 minutes at 180°C .

Filling method:

1. Peel and core apples and cut into cubes.
2. Boil half of the water with demarar sugar and sugar.
3. Mix corn flour into the other half of the water and pour into the sugar solution and cook until thick.
4. Add in apples, raisin and cinnamon powder and stir well.
5. Place filling on top of the half-baked pastry shell and cover the filling with remaining pastry.
6. Prick holes with a fork and brush with egg yolk and bake at 160°C until golden brown on lower rack, about 20-25 minutes.