Ingredients
- 1 x pie shell (9 inch)
- 3 3/4 cups apples
- granny smith peeled
- cored
- thinly sliced
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
- light firmly packed
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon
- 3 large eggs
- 1 cup heavy whipping cream
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400F (200C).
- Line 9-inch pie plate with pastry.
- Crimp edge and prick bottom and sides with fork at 1/2-inch intervals.
- To prevent shrinkage; set 8-inch round cake pan into pie shell (or line snugly with aluminum.)
- Bake 6 minutes.
- Remove cake pan or foil and continue to bake shell until lightly browned; about 10 minutes.
- Remove from oven.
- Layer half the apples; sugar and cinnamon in pie shell; repeat layers.
- Cover completely with cheese.
- Beat eggs with cream.
- Make a small hole in cheese; pour egg mixture into hole.
- Cover hole with cheese.
- Bake about 1 hour until top is browned and apples are tender when tested with pick.
- Cool 10 to 15 minutes before cutting into wedges.
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