Celebrate the Season with Pie!

The holiday season has arrived! Many of us spread holiday cheer to friends and family with sweet homemade treats. At Oakmont, our culinary team prepares delicious made-from-scratch pies for residents and their families to bring to holiday festivities. If you’re looking for a decadent dessert for an upcoming celebration, try this Dutch Apple Pie recipe, created by our Chef. Happy baking and wishing you a sweet and wonderful holiday season.

Oakmont’s Dutch Apple Pie Recipe
Makes 2 Pies
Filling:
2ea: 9 5/8” Pie Dough in disposable pie tin
12C Peeled, Cored Sliced Apples – Honey Crisp,
Granny Smith, Pink Ladies
2 Lemons, juiced
1C Sugar
½C Brown Sugar, packed
6Tbs Flour
1tsp Cinnamon
1/2 Tsp Nutmeg

Preheat oven to 375°F
Par bake 10in pie crust for approximately 5 minutes. Let cool.
In a large bowl, mix sliced apples, lemon juice, both sugars, flour, cinnamon and nutmeg.
Place apple filling into pie crust, gently pressing crust to form a mound.
Topping
1C Flour
½ C Oatmeal
½ C Finely Chopped Pecans
½ C Granulated Sugar
½ C Brown Sugar, packed
1 Stick of Butter – Cold
In a bowl, cut the dry ingredients in with the butter using a pastry cutter, a fork or your hands. Continue until it becomes a course crumble.
Sprinkle topping evenly over the pies.
Bake the pies for approximately 40 to 50 minutes or until pies are golden brown on the crust and top.
Enjoy!
Oakmont is a luxury senior living community in Santa Clarita on Newhall Ranch Road, offering independent and assisted living. Oakmont of Santa Clarita also offers Traditions, a Memory Care community dedicated to meeting the specialized needs of seniors with dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. To learn more about Oakmont of Santa Clarita, contact us at 661-295-2025 or visit our website www.oakmontofsantaclarita.com.