Simple Sour Cream Apple Pie (Traditional Pennsylvania Dutch Recipe)

This simple recipe for sour cream apple pie has a crumbly topping and smooth, creamy apple filling. It is a tried and true passed down Pennsylvania Dutch family recipe. Our Thanksgiving would not be complete, if we did not serve this pie. It’s a crowd-pleaser, so be prepared to dish-out seconds!

As a little girl, one of my fondest memories of Thanksgiving was staying up way past my bedtime to help my parents prepare for Thanksgiving.

My dad has some serious roots tied to the Pennsylvania Dutch. While not a baker or cook himself, he always had access to some pretty epic recipes. And when I say recipes, what I really mean is, recipe cards. You know — the index cards from the ever ancient postcards that we used to receive from family and friends.

The ones that were so heavily loved and passed down that you had a hard time reading because half of the batter was still left on the card. Those were the kind of recipes my dad’s family passed down to us. This is the exact card we received so many years ago.

Check out the most amazing recipe for PA Dutch Chicken Corn Noodle Soup here.

why your whole family will love this sour cream apple pie recipe

• Easy to Make
• Crowd-Pleasing Dessert
• Kid Friendly
• Old-Fashioned Staple
• Irresistible Flavor

ingredients

To make this easy and delicious traditional sour cream apple pie recipe you’ll need a few ingredients that you can get at almost any grocery store or even online!

Here’s what we are working with:

for the filling

• 1 egg, beaten
• 1 cup sour cream
• ½ tsp vanilla extract
• ¾ cups sugar
• 2 tbsp flour 
• ⅛ tsp salt
• 2 cups apples, peeled and thinly sliced
• 1 unbaked pie crust, store-bought or homemade (graham cracker or regular) pie crust

For the crumble

• ⅓ cup sugar
• ⅓ cup flour
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• ¼ cup butter

how to make sour cream apple pie

Preheat oven to 420 degrees. Blend together beaten egg, sour cream and vanilla. Add in sugar, flour, and salt.

Then fold in finely sliced apple into the mixture.

Pour mixture into unbaked pie shell and bake at 420 degrees for 15 minutes then

Lower the temperature to 350 degrees and bake for 30 minutes; remove from oven.

Combine 1/3 cup sugar, 1/3 cup flour, 1/4 cup butter and 1 teaspoon cinnamon in a medium sized bowl. Mix well into ingredients form a crumble like topping.

Spread crumble topping over the pie and bake for an additional 15-20 minutes at 350 degrees.

Not only is this recipe a traditional one – so that alone makes it already awesome, but it is super easy and requires only 8 ingredients. You can choose to make your own pie crust, but we typically use a store-bought graham cracker pie shell for this recipe. Honestly with all the deliciousness of that crumble topping, any kind of pie crust will just enhance it. That’s what so great about this pie recipe–you simply cannot go wrong!

I hope you enjoy this recipe as much as we do. It’s definitely one of those recipes worth saving. There’s nothing better than having what looks and tastes like a gourmet dessert on the table, but one that saves you time behind the scenes. 

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