Sweet and Spicy Classic Apple Pie Recipe | Alton Brown

Everyone and their grandma has an apple pie recipe, but this one’s mine: a classic golden, flaky double-crust apple pie with sweet, velvety filling balanced with unique spices. It’s the only one I have and, quite frankly, it’s the only one I need.

It does call for two unusual items: a pie bird (Google it) and grains of paradise. It’s not that I’m trying to be difficult, but this is the only apple pie I’m ever making, so I wanted to get it right.

Oh, and you won’t want to use a glass baking dish for this — since we’re partially baking the pie on the bottom of the oven, glass cookware could (and probably will) explode.

Both U.S. standard and metric measurements are listed, but for consistently delicious results, go metric.

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