A delicious recipe for apple pie hot off the grill

Apple pie is a classic dessert with a delicious blend of flavors that will please just about any guest, especially when served hot out of the Traeger® grill! This recipe will guide you from start to finish for a quick and easy apple pie cooked on a Traeger® pellet grill.

Ingredients and Supplies

Ingredients

  • 3 ea – Granny Smith Apples (peeled and sliced)
  • 4 ea  – Honeycrisp Apples (peeled and sliced)
  • 1 Tbsp – Lemon Juice
  •  ½ Cup – Granulated Cane Sugar
  • ½ Cup – Dark Brown Sugar
  • 2 Tbsp – All Purpose Flour
  • 1-2 Tbsp -Cornstarch
  • 1 tsp – Ground Cinnamon
  • 1 tsp – Allspice
  • 1 ea – Deep Dish Pie Shell
  • 10oz pkg Crisp/Streusel Topping
  • 5 Tbsp – Salted Butter (room temp)

Supplies

How to Make Apple Pie on a Traeger® Pellet Grill

1 Preheat Your Grill

Make sure your pellet hopper is full before you begin. Set your Traeger® grill to 385 degrees, hit ENTER, then hit IGNITE. Allow the grill to preheat while you prep ingredients.

Set Traeger® grill to 385 degrees
Preheat your Traeger® grill to 385 degrees.

2 Prep the apples

Using the apple peeler/corer machine, peel all the apples. Place all the peeled apples in a bowl, toss with lemon juice, and store in the fridge.

Sliced apples in a bowl with lemon juice
Add lemon juice to the peeled apples.

3 Mix the dry ingredients

In a separate bowl, mix together the dry ingredients, including sugars, flour, cornstarch, cinnamon, and allspice. Mix the flour mixture well and set aside.

Mix the dry ingredients in a bowl
Mix the flour, sugar, and other dry ingredients in a bowl.

4 Prep the pie dough

Remove pie dough (already in pan) from fridge and let soften at room temp for 15 minutes.

Allow the pie dough to soften
Let the pie dough soften at room temperature.

5 Prep the apple crisp topping

Prepare the packaged apple crisp topping and set it aside.

Apple crisp topping and butter
Add butter to the apple crisp topping.

6 Mix the apples and flour mixture

Mix apples and flour mixture together in a large bowl.

Mix the apples in a bowl
Combine the apples and flour mixture.

7 Place the apples into the pie shell

Evenly place the apple mixture into the pie shell. Top the apple mixture with the crisp topping and spread out evenly.

Crumble topping on pie
Add the crumble topping on top of the pie.
PRO TIP FROM ACE
Cover pie dough edges with foil to prevent over cooking dough. Remove the foil during last 15 minutes of cooking to brown the edges.

8 Bake the pie

Bake the pie in the Traeger at 385˚ for 30 minutes.

Remove foil on edges after 30 minutes.

Pie with foil around the crust
Bake the pie with foil wrapped around crust.

9 Final baking

Bake for an additional 10-15 minutes or until pie liquid is thick and not runny.

Remove the foil from pie
Remove the foil from the pie crust and continue to cook.

10 Serving

Remove from the Traeger and rest for 15 minutes.

Slice and serve with Vanilla Ice Cream or Cinnamon Ice Cream.

Serve the pie with ice cream
Slice and serve the warm pie with ice cream.