Mmm Apple Pie!

So who says that being gluten free means that you can't enjoy your pie and eat it too??? Hello this is 2013! Surely we can make a great apple pie for our gluten sensitive folks? We can!!! And did!
Made this pie for my hunny as it was his birthday. Happy birthday dear! (He prefers pie over cake, who wouldn't right?)

Don't be scared, this recipe is super easy! Lets get baking...

Gluten Free Pie Crust:

Things you will need:
½ cup Butter or Margarine (I used margarine)
3-4 Tablespoon Ice cold water
1 ¼ Cup All Purpose Gluten Free Flour Blend (see below)
1 Teaspoon Salt
2 Tablespoons Sugar

Extra margarine to grease pie plate

Pastry Cutter
Rolling Pin
Wax Paper
9 Inch Pie Plate

So this recipe is pretty simple, to top the pie off, you can either prepare 2x the pie crust recipe and top the pie this way, or if you are lazy like me, then I just make a crumble topping!
Crumble Topping:
¾ cup brown sugar
¾ cup gluten free flour blend
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/3 cup butter/margarine, chilled.

(Mix all ingredients together and cut butter in with a pastry cutter until mixture is crumbly, then put it on your pie! Yummy Yum!)

I love love love this GF Flour blend:
I omit the sorghum flour and replace it with more brown rice flour, also replaced the potato flour with tapioca starch flour. Where I live Brown Rice Flour is about half the price of Sorghum, hehe. This couple’s blog is amazzzing, best gluten free recipes I have ever found.

Instructions:
1.)     Preheat your oven to 350 degrees
2.)     Combine all dry ingredients and mix well, place in freezer
3.)     Measure out margarine and water to be used and also place in freezer, leave them in the freezer for about 20 minutes. (Pie crust turns out best when everything is nice and cold.
4.)     While you are waiting for ingredients to chill, tear off a piece of wax paper (as big as you need for rolling), and also grease the pie plate!
5.)     Take ingredients out from freezer and using a pastry cutter, cut margarine into flour blend. (Try to work quickly, you don’t want the margarine to melt)
6.)     Add in ice water, mix the dough quickly with your hands (only long enough until everything is combined)
7.)     On a piece of wax paper that has been floured, carefully roll out the pie crust. I find flouring the top and bottom of dough helps, as well as flouring the rolling pin itself.
8.)     Once you have the right thickness, I find it is easiest to “plop” the pie crust down into the pie pan, the wax paper should lift right off of the crust.
9.)     At this point you can try to “shape” the crust into the pan, and craft the beautiful trim on the edges of the pie plate. 
10.)   Poke bottom of pie crust with a fork and bake pie crust in preheated oven for about 20 minutes.

Apple Pie Filling:
I used the filling recipe from this site, made some pretty amazing apple pie:
Click here for apple pie filling recipe! Mmm 

Credit also to http://glutenfreecooking.about.com/od/dessertsandsweets/r/gfapplepie.htm - got the recipe for the crust (except for the flour blend) from this site.