Nuts to apple pie! Yes, adding nuts is just the thing sometimes. Nuts and butter and brown sugar make this topping a little crunchy, the perfect foil to the soft apples and crisp crust. A blue ribbon winner.
9” pie pan lined with pastry
Filling:
Topping:
This is one pie where a dollop of whipped cream puts it over the top!
To create the scalloped edge shown in the picture, I trimmed the bottom crust with a spoon (leaving about 1") to create the curves, filled it with the apple mixture, then folded the edge back onto the pie.