Slap happy

So I made my first pies! One regular one for our electrician neighbor who just came and spend a huge amount of time hunting down a "lost neutral" in our house... For. Free. Amazing.
And one gluten free one for me!

I used a variation of the regular recipe my grams and mom have used forever for the gluten free version and it was really pretty great!

I did have to learn how to roll out dough for the neighbors pie then I realized I couldn't use this strategy with mine... Slapping the gluten free dough worked best... But after figuring that out? I had a great home made gluten free apple pie! It has been a great week of "pie for breakfast"

Here is the recipe in case you want to try for some slap happiness too!
Crust:
One cup sorghum flour
Two thirds cup tapioca starch
One third cup almond flour
(this blend gives a whole wheat texture but without the heaviness and it's super flaky!)
One cup spectrum organic vegetable shortening
One tsp salt
Four Tbsp cold water

Filling/Innards
Lots of pealed and super thinly sliced apples... Enough to mound up out of the pie plate in a heap!
One cup sugar
One-3 tsp cinnamon to taste
1/2 tsp cloves
Two heaping Tblsps cornstarch
Mix sugar&spice together with corn starch in one bowl and set aside for a bit


Mix flours and salt together
Add shortening: I used my hands until I had lots of little lumps
(You cans use one of those pastry mixy things too though)

Add cold water and mix until shortening is incorporated.

Cut dough ball in two parts

Flour a surface and slap out some of your dough from the first half. Add it to the bottom of your pan leaving some on the edges for crimping it up at the end.
Continue to slap out the bottom
Crust in sections until it is complete.

Add the pie innards/filling
Start by adding a layer of sugar and spice mix.
Then a layer of apples and more spice and sugar on top. Do this again until the last level on top and then put all the remaining sugar and spice on top. Then add the 5 pats of butter or oil to the top and begin the slapping process again for the top of the pie. Then crimp the edges together.
I'm not sure why the rolling didn't work out but slapping didn't take long and it was kinda fun. Not the prettiest thing... But tasty!


Oh and bake it for about an hour in a 400 oven!
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