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Jump to recipeEasy skillet apple pie. A quick apple dessert perfect with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. Ooey-gooey, homey and delicious!
Does anything taste more homey than apple pie? YES! This upside down skillet apple pie does. It has all the goodness of an apple pie – tender apples, flakey crust, sweet and spicy–but it has so much more.
The apples are nestled in the most luxurious warm caramel sauce, just begging to be spooned over a scoop of vanilla ice cream. Plus, it’s about 10 times easier than traditional pie.
Easy Skillet Apple Pie
Peel and slice up your apples and toss them with cinnamon and sugar.
Then melt your butter in a cast iron skillet (if you’ve got one). I’m using a 10 inch skillet. When it’s melted, add in brown sugar and cook until it’s dissolved (just a couple of minutes).
Turn off the heat and dump in your apples, spreading them into an even layer. If you happened to have a bag of freezer apple pie filling hanging around, you could use that, by the way. Just decrease the butter in the caramel mixture by 2 tablespoons.
I’ve done that, and it makes this easy dessert even quicker! (That recipe does call for less apples than this one. This is still delicious with fewer apples -more caramel to enjoy! Or, you could simply slice up a couple of apples to add in with the pie filling.)
Lay your refrigerated pie crust over the top, tucking the edges in. (By all means make your own if you like, I get mine at Trader Joe’s).
Cut some slits on top, brush with a little milk (or a beaten egg, if you want it really shiny) and sprinkle with sugar.
Bake it up until it’s brown and bubbly.
We like to eat it hot, scooped out over ice cream. And leftovers are fantastic just heated up in the microwave for a bit.
If you want more of a ‘pie’ experience, this can actually be made with two crusts. The original recipe called for laying one crust over the caramel mixture, before you dump in your apples. Caramel, crust, apples, crust. It was delicious, but I think we like this version better.
More saucy. More ooey-gooey.
Try this easy skillet apple pie and tell me how much you love it!
Looking for more pie recipes?
Chocolate Marshmallow Cream Pie
Upside Down Skillet Apple Pie
Ingredients
- 8 cups of apple slices (peeled)
- 1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 cup brown sugar (lightly packed)
- 10 Tablespoons butter (1 stick + 2 Tblsp.)
- Pinch of salt
- 1 refrigerated pie crust
- 2 Tablespoons milk or beaten egg
- 2 Tablespoons sugar
Instructions
- Peel and slice apples to equal about 8 cups
- Stir in cinnamon and sugar
- In skillet, add butter, brown sugar and pinch of salt
- Heat, stirring, over medium heat until sugar is dissolved (a couple of minutes)
- Turn off heat and add apples, spreading evenly in skillet
- Lay pie crust over the top of apples, tucking in or folding down edges to fit
- Cut 4 slits around center
- Brush with milk or beaten egg and sprinkle with 2 Tablespoons sugar
- Put in oven and bake at 350 for about an hour, until brown and bubbly.
- Serve warm over ice cream.
Cast iron skillets are wonderful for everything aren’t they? This recipe looks delicious especially with the caramel.
Thanks for sharing on #TatsyTuesdays.
Glad you stopped by, Audrey. Nice to meet a fellow cast iron skillet lover! 🙂
Apple pie is one of my favorite foods! I wish I had a cast iron skillet so I could make one like this.
I’ll bet it would work great in a regular skillet!
Wow this looks really easy. Thank you for sharing. I’ll have to add this to my list of recipes to try.
I love my cast iron pan, but I’ve never used it for a dessert. I think that is going to have to change. 🙂
This actually looks so much better than plain old pie! Thanks for sharing at To Grandma’s House We Go link party.
Looks like it would be warm, yummy sweetness! And the skillet makes you think of homesteading life. Thanks for sharing at Family Joy Blog linkup.