This beloved family staple is a rustic and delicious pie for ... anytime in the day!
Ingredients
For the Apple Pie:
- 3 medium size Cooking Apples
- 350g plain flour
- Pinch of salt
- 40 g castor sugar
- 175 g margarine or butter cut into small pieces
- 3 tablespoons of cold water
For the Snowballs:
- 50g butter
- 400g Digestive biscuits
- 200g bag of pink & white marshmallows
- 405g tin of condensed milk
- Fine coconut to roll in
- Bowl of cold water to keep hands moist
Method
For the Apple Pie:
- Sieve flour and salt into mixing bowl.
- Rub in margarine until mix resembles breadcrumbs.
- Add sugar and 2 tablespoons of the water mix with a round bladed knife.
- Till dough begins to cling together add other spoonful of water if needed.
- Gather together with finger tips to form a rough ball.
- And place in a cool place for 30 mins.
- Half your ball of dough.
- Roll it on a lightly floured surface to size of plate or tin you are going to use.
- Lay pastry on plate cover with your peeled cooking apples.
- Sprinkle with some sugar about 1 tablespoon & a little shaking of cinnamon if liked.
- And a little sprinkle of water over the apples.
- Roll out remaining half of pastry on a lightly floured surface and cover the pie.
- Put a little slit in center of pastry.
- Brush top of pastry with egg yolk or milk.
- Put into a pre heated oven 190 degrees c for 40 to 45 mins till pie is a nice golden.
- When brown color, take out and let cool.
- Sprinkle small bit of sugar on top.
For the Snowballs:
- Crush biscuits to fine crumbs in a large bowl.
- Melt butter and add melted butter to crushed biscuits. Mix.
- Add condensed milk & mix well, consistency will be sticky.
- Damp hands & take a tablespoon of the mix & flatten on palm of hand.
- Add one mallow to centre of mix. Pull mix up from hand to cover mallow completely.
- Then roll in coconut.
- When all done leave in fridge to chill for 10 mins. Will make approx.24.
