Amy’s Kitchen Apple Pie

November 4, 2006 | Reviewer: Abi

Amy's Kitchen Apple Pie

Price: $3.49
Serving: 1/2 Pie, 4 oz.
Calories: 230
Fat: 12%, 8g
Sodium: 6%, 135mg
Protein: 2g
Carbs: 12%, 37g
Fiber: 8%, 2g

Amy says: We live in apple country. Our daughter Amy loves to go out into our garden and pick apples from the tree. In fact, Amy’s Kitchen is only 10 miles from the fertile organic apple orchards of Sebastopol, California. So it’s only natural that the first dessert from Amy’s Kitchen be that most traditional favorite “Apple Pie.” Organically grown apples are lightly sweetened, sprinkled with a dash of cinnnamon spice and then baked in a tender organic wheat flour crust.

Abi says: This pie is a cinnamon-spiced buttery wake-up call of love. I am typing this review while riding on the shuttle bus to school and I’m really, really hoping that nobody looks over my shoulder and sees that first sentence. It would be pretty tough to explain ‘Hey, I’m a food reviewer, not some girl with a strange thing for apple pie.’ Would I even have the opportunity to explain that? Would the person just send it in to Overheard in DC, except it would be ‘Something I Read on Someone Else’s Laptop in Northern Virginia’?

While I’d appreciate a crispier crust (no crisping panel), I would also appreciate if Amy’s Kitchen made a no-crust apple pie. I want a dish of baked apples for breakfast. That would be incredibly delicious and probably much healthier than the buttery love. Possibly even more delicious: topping the pie with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

On a side note, one of my classmates accused me of eating this just for the website. While I have consumed food ‘just for the website‘, that is not the case with this apple pie.

I enjoyed this pie so much because it contained large apple slices that were still a little firm. If you’ve ever had a cheap apple pie, you’ve probably had the experience of eating what is essentially apple sauce in crust. This pie was not apple sauce in crust. I should have taken a photo to illustrate that there was not a smidgen of pie left after I was finished with breakfast.

Not to end this review on a bad note, but that’s what I’m going to do anyways. This pie didn’t contain nearly the density of apples featured on the box. I find this especially disappointing because the Amy’s Kitchen boxes are generally accurate. I wanted an apple-packed pie and that isn’t exactly what I got.

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4 Responses to “Amy’s Kitchen Apple Pie”

Colleen on November 4th, 2006

I dissagree. I find the crust of this pie soggy and not flaky and/or buttery tasting. I found the apples not spicy enough.
Abi Jones on November 5th, 2006

I definitely agree with you on the crust. It was not crispy at all. I enjoyed the apples a lot. Maybe I should eat another one to see if they were spicy enough. Even if they weren’t spicy, there definitely weren’t enough apples. I was more than a bit disappointed in the lack of filling on this pie.
Ace N. on November 5th, 2006

I’ve had some horrific experiences with microwave pies(specifically Razzleberry Pie from Marie Callendars, I probably should’ve picked a pie with a real fruit in its name) so I generally stay away from them. Something about soft dough steeped in hot liquid makes for a less than thrilling crust.

I too am disturbed with the amount of times that I’ve gleefully bit into apple pie only to find that it is mealy and flavorless. Applesauce is putting it nicely.
Aimee on January 19th, 2007

I ate less than a fourth of this pie before tossing it in the trash. The apples had no flavor whatsoever (are we sure they were actually apples?) and the crust was mush. I think I would have had more flavor out of crackers soaked in applesauce until they were a soggy mess.