A simple but super tasty apple pie made with delicious flakey, buttery wholemeal spelt pastry. Granny’s apple pie doesn’t have to be made with a food processor, but as a bonus, there’s a review of one in this post.
There’s something so nostalgic but also comforting about apple pie. It takes me straight back to my Granny’s cooking of yesteryear. Calling this Granny’s apple pie is perhaps a bit far fetched. My Grandmother made the best pastry ever and wonderful apple pies to boot. She also used to make them on a ceramic plate just like this one.
But I very much doubt she’d have even heard of spelt and she’d never have used wholemeal flour. She also made her pastry by hand. This pastry was made using my new VonShef 1000W food processor. Read on to find out how to enter the giveaway for a chance of winning one for yourself.
Wholemeal Spelt Pastry
Normally I would make my pastry by hand, just like my granny, but I thought I’d give it a try in the VonShef as I wanted to put it through its paces. I can confidently report that it’s a lot easier and faster using the food processor method, though there is a bit more washing up to do. All I had to do was throw the ingredients into the bowl of the food processor and press a button.
Well that maybe over simplifying it slightly, but not by much. I added the wholemeal spelt flour, butter, salt and nutmeg first and blitzed for a few seconds. Then I added the yoghurt and whizzed for a few more seconds until the mixture gathered itself into a dough.
If you’re wandering about the yoghurt, I generally use it to bind my wholemeal dough, which is otherwise tricky to handle. It helps to make a flaky and very tasty pastry turning Granny’s apple pie into even more of a treat. I prefer wholemeal pastry as it’s not only much healthier but has a nutty quality to it which enhances the flavour.
Coincidentally, it was pastry week on The Great British Bake Off on Tuesday. Some of the pies looked and sounded fantastic. I feel I now need to make a savoury pie and have a go at pasteis de nata, otherwise known as Portuguese custard tarts. However, I’ve noticed no-one on #GBBO is ever brave enough to make wholemeal pastry.
Granny’s Apple Pie
Once you’ve made the pastry, all the work for Granny’s apple pie is almost done. This is a super simple recipe which requires no pre-cooking of the apples. Simply slice them up and add a bit of sugar. The only fiddly bit is cutting out pastry decorations. The bit of pastry you can see looking lost on the top was my inept attempt at a leaf. I must try harder.
One word of warning though, be sure to cut slits in the top of the pastry to let the steam out. Last time I made an apple pie, I made one with some rather delicious chocolate pastry. But I forgot the slits. This resulted in all of the moisture pooling in the bottom of the pie and giving it a soggy bottom. Mary Berry would not have been happy.
Apple season is now in full swing. I’m finding apples everywhere I go. Colleagues are bringing them into work, I see help yourself boxes of them sitting on people’s doorsteps and best of all I have the next door neighbour’s apples falling into my new garden. I do love autumn.
The pastry was beautifully flaky and crisp on the bottom. No soggy bottoms for me. Now that Mary Berry is no longer part of #GBBO, maybe that’s now a thing of the past anyway. The pie is wonderful eaten hot straight from the oven, with or without clotted cream or custard. But it’s almost as good eaten cold the next day.
VonShef 1000W Food Processor
My aunt recently told me she’d been having problems finding a food processor that had stainless steel attachments rather than plastic. I’m pleased to report that the six chopping, shredding, slicing and grating blades that come with the VonShef 1000W Food Processor are all made of stainless steel. The only plastic attachment is the dough blade which I used to make Granny’s apple pie.
The bowl is bigger than my last food processor (3.5 litre capacity), but it’s a lot more compact than you might think and doesn’t take up much more space. It’s taller than it is wider, but still sits comfortably on the workbench and under the kitchen cabinets.
It does everything you’d expect a good food processor to do and comes with a 1.8 litre capacity blender jug. Smoothies are very much an option as are soups, dips, sauces, coleslaw and any number of other delights – including pastry of course. It has a two speed control for versatility plus the ever useful pulse function.
My absolute favourite feature is the handy drawer at the bottom which holds the attachments. No longer do I need to hunt around in the back of the cupboard every time I need to change the grater to a slicer or chopper. They all fit snugly into the drawer and will never be lost again. The 1000W motor is powerful so it has an in-built thermal cut-out device in case the food processor begins to overheat.
You can buy the VonShef 1000W Food Processor online via Domu for £59.99.
Other Pie Recipes You Might Like
- Butternut squash, leek and ricotta lattice pie via The Baking Explorer
- Chickpea, feta and butternut squash pie via Fuss Free Flavours
- Easy cheesy vegetable lattice pie via Farmersgirl Kitchen
- Frangipane mince pies via Mummy Mishaps
- Greek spanakopita pie via Foodie Quine
- Lime & fresh cherry hand pies via Veggie Desserts
- Pear and mincemeat pie via Recipes Made Easy
- Rhubarb and almond cream pasty pie via Tin and Thyme
- Squash, chilli & chard feta pasties via Tin and Thyme
- Vegan picnic pies with crisp hot water crust pastry via Thinly Spread
- Vegetarian chicken and leek pie via Only Crumbs Remain
- Vegetarian pot pie via Sage & Simple
If these aren’t enough to tempt you, head over to my Tasty Tarts & Pastry Pies board on Pinterest. You’re bound to find some inspiration there.
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Granny’s Apple Pie. PIN IT.
Granny’s Apple Pie – The Recipe
Granny's Apple Pie with Wholemeal Spelt Pastry
Ingredients
- 250 g wholemeal spelt flour
- 150 g unsalted butter
- pinch sea salt
- grating of nutmeg I used 3 drops of spice drops
- 3 tbsp natural yoghurt
- 3 large cooking apples or 4-6 windfalls - peeled cored, quartered and sliced
- 50 g golden granulated sugar I used vanilla sugar
- ½ tsp cinnamon
Instructions
- Insert the dough blade into the bowl of the food processor. Add the flour, butter, salt and nutmeg and pulse until the mixture has formed something resembling rough breadcrumbs. Add the yoghurt and switch to speed 1 until the mixture has formed a dough - about 20 seconds.
- Halve the dough and roll out to about 4mm thick.
- Line the bottom of a 22 cm pie dish and trim the edges to fit.
- Whisk the cinnamon into the sugar or or place in a jar and give a good shake.
- Layer in the apples and all but 1 tbsp of the sugar. It's best to mound them up higher than the dish as they will sink when cooking.
- Roll out the remaining pastry to about 4mm thick and cover the top of the pie.
- Trim the edges and crimp the sides or use a fork to press the pastry together. You can also use some of the pastry scraps to create some decorations to go on top.
- Sprinkle the remaining sugar over the top and slash the pastry in order for some of the steam to escape.
- Bake in the middle of a preheated oven at 200℃ (400℉, Gas 6) for about 30 minutes or until the pastry is golden and the apples are soft.
- Serve hot or cold with clotted cream or custard.
Notes
Nutrition
Link-Ups
I’m sharing my Granny’s apple pie with the following link-ups:
- The Great Bloggers Bake Off 2017 hosted by Mummy Mishaps.
- Bake of the Week hosted by Mummy Mishaps and Casa Costello
- #CookBlogShare hosted by Everyday Healthy Recipes
- Cook Once Eat Twice hosted by Searching for Spice
- Simple and in Season hosted by Feeding Boys
VonShef 1000W Food Processor Giveaway
Domu is kindly offering one Tin and Thyme reader a VonShef 1000W Food Processor worth £59.99. To be in with a chance of winning, please fill in the Gleam widget below. You will need to leave a comment on this post, answering the question, which then gives you additional chances to enter if you so wish. Gleam will pick a winner at random from the entries received who will then be contacted via e-mail. If you are commenting anonymously, please give me some way of identifying you as I will be verifying the validity of entries. Any automated entries will be disqualified. This giveaway is only open to those with a UK postal address. Winners will need to respond within 5 days of being contacted. Failure to do this may result in another winner being picked. There are no cash alternatives.
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I’d like to make various pastries for savoury pies. A food processor would make it so much easier and quicker.
This would be great to make the pastry for my squash and mushroom tarts.
I make a lot of different soups – this would really help and save a lot of time chopping etc
I’d use it to make pastry and breadcrumbs for a treacle tart because it’s my partner’s favourite! 🙂
Would love to make some soup for winter
I would make my sister a special vegan meal as she deserves a treat and this would help big time.
I love to make sticky toffee pudding, especially this time of year, however my food processor broke a few months ago and I have a 3 month old, it’s a bit too much extra work without my food processor so I haven’t made any for quite some time x
I would make my daughter some coleslaw
I’d love to use it to make lots of delicious and warming soups to see us through the winter months.
Apple pie
Any kind of crumble pie atm it’s all my LO will eat! Sweet or savoury
I would love to use it for making pastry as I hate making it by hand.
I use a lot of chopped fruit and veg like tomatoes for cooking like sauces so this would be perfect for this
I really want to make bread and think this would help with the dough making
I would love to make some different chutneys to give to some family members for Christmas, in particular a caramelised onion chutney as this is all our favourite.
some tomato and onion bread twists asI hate mixing the bread mix by hand and then I’d make home made potatoe and leek soup too
I’d use it to grate the mouli when my husband makes stuffed parathas. Grating them by hand is a real chore and I invariably grate my knuckles
I would make a lot of cakes and other sweet treats
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I would love to use this to make the perfect Butternut Squash soup x I want to make it using our South African recipe- something I haven,t done since leaving years ago , as can’t face chopping all the squash up !
I’d like to make cakes and bread, anything really as I can’t beat mixture by hand any more as I have arthritis in my hands.
Rhubarb crumble/pie – Mmm my fav or sticky toffee pudding
I would love to bake a vanilla sponge cake. I have not baked for years. This would definitely motivate me.
I would make some soup with my lovely veg I grow on my allotment
I would love this super food processor to great pasty and cakes. I have arthritis in my hands and it would make much better mixes than I can do.
I would love to be have a food processor in time for Christmas. I have a stack of recipes that I would love to try ranging from cakes to sauces and a processor would be a great help.
I’d love to be able to make peanut butter! I find it kinda magical he you can turn plain peanuts into peanut butter in just a few seconds!!
I love your apple pie recipe, it is my next to do bake! When I don’t have apples I sometimes use courgettes and make a fake apple pie, it’s amazing but you can hardly taste the difference!
Oh, what a splendid idea Polly. Thanks for the tip.
I would love to be able to make sweet pastry from scratch so I could bake some homemade mince pies. My hands are too warm to make pastry!
I love making my own coleslaw but it can be a tedious process, a food processor would make it so much easier and quicker.
i’d love to try making meringues and make my own pavlovas, my favourite dessert, yum
Smoothies. I buy lots of frozen fruit (like summer berries) for convenience, so a food processor would be ideal for making healthy drinks.
It is that time of year when casseroles and stews are so warming so I would start with a bulk load for a casserole and then lots of homemade pies will be on the list
Lemon Meringue Pie. My mum always makes it for us so would be nice to return the favour
I would make a nice hot winter soup just love them
I would love to make my favourite Carrot Cake. The processor would be so useful for shredding and blending all the lovely ingredients!
I’m vegan so lots of my recipes require a processor like this. I would make vegan blueberry cheesecake and I make the base with dates and almonds which I need to blend. I make the ‘cheese’ with blended cashews and soya milk.
Lemon meringue pie. I love it and have made it before but it can be a bit of a faff.
Lots of things for Christmas when I have family visiting. Biscuits, mince pies and a Yule log for the children
I would use it to grate vegetables for making a lovely soup
It’s about that time of year for Parsnip soup! So that would be what I would make. I really love sweet soups and parsnip is my favourite
I would love to make some vegetable soup. Perfect for a cold winter dat xx
we love baking and only have a hand blender this would be so good and save arm ache . my fave bake is a apple crumble
A Victoria Sponge – I hope this would help make it lighter than air (plus I like fresh cream in the middle…)
wow! i would love to make some pastry! always been making by hand and this looks beautiful too.
Both my children love homemade over shop bought and their favourite is my homemade hummus especially when served in wraps with chilli bean paste (it’s a bit like refried beans) and salad. The hummus and bean paste is all prepared with a food processor but sadly I’m struggling to make it as my current one went up in smoke last month.
Would love to make snuggly comfort food this winter and quickly too! Apple crumble yum.
the apple pie looks amazing i would love to give this a try
I would love to make some pastry and scones with the food processor . The family love apple and pear pie and my chicken and leek in white sauce pie. I could make them a lot quicker with this processor and batch make them for the freezer
Anything from Jamie’s 15 or 30 minute meals – without a food processor they currently take me about an hour and a half 😀
I’d make some home made fruit pies now I’ve been inspired by your recipes
I’d love to make lots of warming vegetable soups for the winter months! Maybe a nice fruit crumble for puddings!
I would use it to make the pastry for my mince pies, so much easier than doing it by hand.
This would be useful for all sorts of things. Homemade soup has to be my favourite and this would be ideal for chopping all those onions and tough ingredients like butternut squash.
I would make a lovely apple crumble! Yum
Nigella always uses a food processor for her Victoria Sponge and other cakes – so I’d love to try it for that as well as to help with all the veggie dishes I love.
Stuffng would be really handy to make using a foot processor as it would save me making pieces smaller by hand
With the cold weather coming first ting I’ll be making is lots of soups.
How good does cheesy potatoes sound? Very! I would slice the spuds and grate the cheese with the processor in record time with great precision. I’m also a big salad fan and would love to try making my own dressings in the machine.
I’d use it for blending my home made soups
I would love to try out your apple pie recipe.
Spicy Winter coleslaw – processor would be perfect for shredding the cabbage and carrots x
Soups for winter and baby food in the new year!
i would like to use it to make apple pies and cheese straws
Oh wow your apple pie looks so yummy!!
I’ve always fancied making my own sauces for meats and pasta, especially with hidden veggies in for the kids xx
I would love to make a classic vegetable soup so this would be really useful!
I’d like to make more soups now winter is here so it would be a help with chopping.
I love making different soups, especially in the colder months. The food processor would be great for this.
I have a food processor recipe for Fish Cakes with Sweet Chilli Sauce which I would love to try as they sound delicious 🙂
Between watching #GBBO and this article it’s time I tried some home cooking.
The first thing I’d use it for would be a nice simple corned beef and potatoe pie then who knows after that
I have become a vegetarian and 6 months in I am having so much fun experimenting with different foods and recipes. I have enjoyed making quinoa, butterbean fritters the most adding spices and flavours. Have also been cooking apple cake apple pie and apple chutney with the vast amount of apples in my garden.
Well done. It can be a big step. But as you say lots of fun to be had discovering new ways of cooking. I’m envious of your apple tree(s).
My friend gave me a recipe for mushroom soup using porcini mushrooms – love to do that.
I want to make my own almond butter!
I would love to make a delicious, comforting Leek & Potato Soup, the perfect winter warmer after being in work all day!
Im desperate to give homemade mustard a go….i watched James Martin give it a go and it looked amazing!
I’m dying to make my own grated parmesan cheese. Our family uses parmesan liberally & so would be much cheaper to grate a huge quantity myself. Like the idea of using a food processor for quick work.
I’ve got a recipe for cheese & olive scones that are lovely at Christmas but quite fiddly, any help from this food processor would be appreciated!
first thing id try would be my xmas cakes
I’m dying to make a proper, home-made Christmas cake! We used to be given a boxed cake at work so I was never really encouraged to do one myself – well, we don’t need two cakes, do we? But now that I am semi-retired I could bake my own and I am convinced it will be miles better than the shop bought ones.
I’m thinking of making a dark chocolate cheesecake so this would be ideal for chopping up bourbon biscuits for the base!
I would love to make a vanilla cheesecake with an Oreo biscuit base x x x
wow looks amazing ,love cooking hubby loves fruit pies children loves sausage rolls and with my daughters wedding I,m catering for and Christmas parties we will be having a lot of food being made and blimey this magnificent machine could help me make short work of a lot of pastry making and cakes too fantastic prize giveaway everything crossed
My 12 year old really wants a food processor. She cooks and cakes an awful lot and now wants to make her own pasta and has read that a food processor will make it so much easier
I am going to make your wholemeal spelt apple pie, as I have always used the white spelt
I’d make a lovely cheesecake. Maybe a salted caramel one. It’s very tedious to do by ham. This looks fab would love to be your lucky winner
The apple pie looks amazing & it happens to be my fiancés favourite, so I would def make that!
i would use it to make a hash brown based pizza. The potato and onion take ages to by hand this would do that trick no problems!
I’m fairly new to baking and i’m loving it. I would love to do more adventurous bakes and cakes especially cheesecakes but my hand mixer the cheesecake seems to separate. I checked online and they said l need a decent mixer, so would really love to expand and carry on with my baking journey! .
I’d love to try making some houmous, as I love it, and a decent blender would be ideal for this.
I’d make an apple and rhubarb crumble.
I’d make a blackberry and apple oaty crumble!
Wanting to make some energy balls for snacking and for kids to take to school as a healthy snack. Would come in useful for choppjng the nuts/fruit and binding all together to suitable consistency x
I would love to make some soups over the winter
We had and abundance of cooking apples this year so I’d be making crumbles
i have so many pumpkins that could do with a whizz
I would love to make some delicious pesto, owning this would make it much easier!
would be the perfect incentive to make homemade cakes
ideal for making pastry, very useful for people with arthritis, apple pie would be my first make
I’d like to try to make cakes with chocolate and vanilla cream filling
Would love to make gluten free pastry,I find it hard to make it by hand to get that elasticity texture.
I would have a go at Apple Crumble. Its a family favourite
I would love to make Pumpkin Pie filling – because I have never tried it and because I need to find some way of using up all the discarded pumpkin carving efforts we have 😀
I really want to give Apple crumble another go, and I’m sure if I had this it would certainly turn out a lot better than the last one I tried to make by hand!
I would use it for Apple Crumble but my Son would love to use it for his cupcakes. Fantastic prize, thank you x
I’m about to make a batch of pumpkin pies, having grown the most enormous pumpkin ever
Oh yes! I love a good spelt recipe, it makes it so much easier for me and my husband to enjoy without fear of bloating!
This would be amazing to whizz up some of my lovely humous
I don’t know what I would use it for, bit grannys apple pie look delicious
id like to try out some different soups. im not a great cook but having this would inspire me!
I would love to start making my own soups, especially now the cold weather is here.
I would use it to make some lovely fruit coleslaw. Delicious with a ham and cheese sandwich
i love to make apple pies my neighbour has a few trees and always lets me pick some when there ready 🙂
I would like to make chocolate pudding with my nieces when they visit.
I’m vegetarian so I would find this so useful for chopping nuts and vegetables to make a nut roast for Christmas,
I would love to try making bread, and pastry is a great idea .x
We love any kind of kitchen gadet – especially ones that make life easier
I like to make huge pots of vegetable soups for the winter. I freeze them in individual portions to make quick, easy meals. This would make the job even easier!
I would use this for so many things, but to make better pastry for my homemade steak pie would certainly please my son! x
I’d use it for chopping vegetables, especially onions. I use onions in nearly every meal but hate chopping them by hand
I’d make chocolate cake and leek and potato soup….Though not at the same time of course! :O Perish the thought! Haha!
I love making any & all pastry dishes. This would save so much time so I could make twice as many 🙂
A beautiful apple pie with added cinnamon and mixed spice as its xmas
I thought I’d already commented on this! I love old-fashioned apple pie, and yours looks fab, especially with the spelt pastry. I bet it’s so filling too.
I’m so looking forward to moving back to Britain… not least because it means I can retrieve my Magimix from storage! I hate making pastry by hand, I really do!
Hahaha. I understand the pastry thing completely. I used to avoid pastry making like the plague.
i wouldnt know what i could use in it till i got one or won one i do know one thing i would put in it and thats garlic 🙂
I would love to make homemade coleslaw as I have never made it as slicing all that veg so finely seems like to much hardwork
I would like to use it to make my own coleslaw as chopping by hand is so tedious!
The prize looks nearly as nice as that pie. That would be the first thing I made with it thats for sure.
My mums recipe for bread sauce, it’s my favourite but currently buy packet as don’t have a processor to mix the bread crumbs
I actually LOVE apple pie! This recipe sounds delish! My husband is a chef by trade so I do all the cooking at home 🙂
Homemade Mincemeat for Christmas Pies
Fruit Crumble is always a welcomed treat this time of year. Blitzing the crumble mixture in a food processor would save time and ensure an even and fine topping.
I’d love to use it to make my sun dried tomato sauce
I would like to make a traditional Christmas Cake instead of buying one. This processor would really help make it turn out right.
It would help with food prep
homemade chicken teryaki dippers! It’s impossible to blitz the chicken breast without a food processor – i tried using my blender and blew up the motor!
I would love to make some hummous!
looking forward to making my partners birthday cake… and a fresh loaf of bread to
I’d like to make some chocolate caramel slices
Such a great prize one thing our kitchen is lacking
Carrot cake, to save me grating all those carrots
a cherry pie! x
i’d love to make apple and blackberry pie perfect for Autumn
I would love to win this so I can try out your recipe! My family loves apple pie!
would love to try making my own pastry – for apple pies and other treats.
I’d love to use this to make some corned beef pasties. I had a lovely home made one off a friend today and it was delicious so I’d like to try and make some the same.
I have bags of frozen blackberries so would have to be an apple and blackberry pie yum yum :0)
Coleslaw! I hate the chopping, it takes ages and with a food processor it would only take a few minutes.
I’d love to win the Von Sheef mixer so I could make lighty and airy cakes instead of the lumpy ones I currently make
It would definitely be something warm like soup.
I want to make pasties, really good at quickly getting the pastry together and chopping the filling perfectly
This looks so scrummy and I can’t wait to try it. mmmmmmm
We are trying to cut down on our meat consumption at the moment, and I’ve been wanting to make my own falafel. Would love the processor to try some different recipes out!
I would love to make a cauliflower rice – I’ve never tried it before, let alone made it so it would be good to try!
A really good vegetable soup, chopping just doesn’t do the job!
Using one to help make healthy cauliflower rice would make this a much quicker meal to prepare!
I am dying to make my Christmas puddings and Christmas cake and a food processor would be so useful for the breadcrumbs, chopping nuts and generally mixing it all together.
I’ve been dying to make haleem which I had recently. Lentils and meats
This is boring but true – I’d be dying to make home made cheese and onion pie. Onions by hand have a really bad effect on me. My gran used to make me one, it was so gorgeous but nobody since. I’ve tried to persuade my sis who is a MUCH better cook than me to do it but she’s having none!
I would use it to make spicy carrot and lentil soup – lovely and warming on a cold, dark evening.
Really would like to start baking again, which I’ve not done for ages, this would save so much time and elbow work
I’d love to make felafel
i think i would make a crumble, Apples are a big favourite for my kids so probably an apple crumble and a food processor would certainly speed up the process and save me from ‘mum is it done yet’
I would mainly use this to make smooties, try and loose some weight
I would love to use this to whizz up soups. I’ve been wanting to make soups for ages, but don’t have a blender/food processor to do this.
Some curry mixes and pastes
I would make a christmas cake to share with my family this christmas when they come to visit
It is coming up to soup, soup and more soup weather (I love soup). One of these would be ideal for getting the smoothness I require of my veggie soups. Or the crumbles for a nice warm winter berry crumble.
love to make my own curry pastes so i can do home made currys
I’d love to try to make homemade pesto – I love a simple spaghetti with pesto and to try a homemade one would be fab!
I would love to try make a gluten free pie as they are so hard to come by!
I would enjoy making Apple Crumble with my mum’s apples. I find it hard to make the crumble topping so this would be great
I’d love it for the perfect soup – one my daughter wouldn’t be scared to eat!
I would love to use it to make quiches
Butternut squash soup
I usually mix cakes by hand, but would like to try a food processor. Also for things like grating carrots for a carrot cake.
I really want to make smoothies! Banana and avocado with some milk or almond milk. Perfect breakfast!
I want to make my own coleslaw
What a tasty looking pie! I could just tuck into a slice of this right now to warm up after a chilly dog walk on the beach! Thanks for joining in with Simple and in Season this month xxx
Thanks Katie. We’re just back from a chilly walk in the path and would be happy to tuck into a slice too 🙂
I would like to make Christmas Cake with it, especially with Christmas not far away
This would be ever so useful to help create my cheesecake bases for my thursday treat day
My friend has given me her recipe for Oreo Cheesecake, which is amazing, but I do need a mixer to make it properly, fingers crossed xxx
Fantastic prize for making my short crust pastry
Energy Balls! Especially cocoa/mint or date/nut. I pay ~£2 a pop for them on the go, so to be able to make them at home instead would be amazing!
I think you definitely need to start making them at home. Imagine what you’ll be able to buy with the money saved 🙂
My mother in law has so many great cake and crumble recipes. This would be great to make them with
I’d use it to process lots of veggies into sauces to persuade my children to eat more vegetables with their meals.
Soup – you really need a blender thats enclosed to zizz it up in and I have a few soup ideas I want to try out!
I would love to be able to make some nice warming healthy soups now that winter is on its way. Never made my own before but if I won this it would give me the incentive to have a go
I’m dying to make a nut roast, and this food processor would be so useful for that! We’ve had a decent walnut crop this year so need to put them to good use 🙂
I’m so envious of your walnut crop. Fresh walnuts are delicious.
I would first make make leek and potato soup and then apple crumble 🙂
With the festive season approaching I’d like to prepare Christmas cake and pudding in this machine, it would certainly cut down the preparation time and give improved results
this looks excellent for making a quick pastry mix – ideal for apple pies
I would love to make some salmon Thai fishcakes. This would be great for mixing the ingredients, making breadcrumbs etc.
If I had a food processor I’d love to make some soups – chicken and vegetables would be lovely
I would love a food processor, would be really useful for making breadcrumbs and pastry
My Grans pea soup boiled bacon stock water, grated swede and carrots,onion,celery and split peas I borrow my brothers but I would love to have my own
After reading your fab review I’m convinced that this machine may finally be the solution to my nemesis…which is pastry making? 😉
As it’s coming up to Christmas I’d like to make my Italian chocolate salami with it! Yummy
The one gadget that I don’t have.
I’d love to make some nice winter soups – cream of mushroom, etc. 🙂
A peach cobbler 🙂
I would like to try some gluten free pastry. I can never face making it by hand
Welsh cakes
Love to make lots of curry pastes from scratch. We’re big fans of curry.
some lovely rock cakes for my nan, they are her favourite
I would love to use this to make some nice winter homemade veggie soups. Thanks for the lovely giveaway, your apple pie looks lovely.
There is something very comforting and homely about apple pies’ This looks really delicious. I prefer making sponges – I always struggle with pastry! I would love to be able to make it properly.
I’d love it to make all types of pastry – I have really warm hands and so rather than rubbing the butter in, I tend to melt it in which doesn’t make for a good bake.
I love making soups and this would be perfect!
We love homemade pasties with all sorts of savoury and sweet flavours. The kids are always asking for them but they take me forever to make. I’ve used ready made pastry a couple of times when I’ve been really busy but they can always tell and they’re none too happy about it! This would speed up the pastry making part no end and I could even use it to chop up the fillings. Then the only time consuming bit will be rolling it out. Do you think they might invent a Vonshef with a rolling pin attachment too?!
Haha. I’m waiting for the day when we have robots that can do all the chores leaving us with just the fun bits.
Would use it to make a delicious rhubarb crumble, when I do it by hand the crumble is never small enough as my hands are too hot.
We love apple pie with custard but we have never tried a different flour, looks yummy.
I would love to make soup so would find this really useful, and crumble for pudding!
I’m dying to make home-made naked slaw, and this would save so much time chopping up veg!
Rhubarb crumble or apple and raspberry crumble!
I’d make Cherry Pie…..love home versions especially when you pair it with vanilla ice cream
I’d love to make a carrot and coriander soup for the winter
Lots of soups for the winter
I would love to try your Granny’s Apple Pie with Wholemeal Spelt
I’ve been inspired by this year’s bakeoff and want to start to bake some more so this would come in really handy.
I would give it to my son at uni so he can start to make some basic home food quicker and easier
I’d like to make nut free pesto so my husband can actually eat it!
I’d like to make an apple crumble with a food processor as I’ve seen it on TV, when I try to do it manually my hands are a bit warm and it’s more like pastry!
i’d like to try and make a christmas pudding this year
This looks a great bit of kit, I would love to give ti a go.
I would love to make a cheese and onion pie as i am always buying them and would love to make my own
I’d love to make my own american’slaw & home made soups
I would love to have one so that I can make much better soups
Would like to try making Cream of Broccoli Soup as one of my favourite vegetables and soup
An apple crumble
I would like to make my own hummous and also colslaw
I’d love to be able to make decent shortcrust pastry and I’ve heard how good this machine is for pastry.
I do a lot of home cooking, but am yet to really master baking, so this would be fab and i would try out cherry pie for hubby first!
A nice apple crumble – I always mess it up when I try to make the crumble by hand
I would love the be able to make my own pesto and all different salad dressings in a food processor
I’m dying to make my own pork pie this christmas. I have no fears about the hot water crust pastry – I’ve made it before, & it soooo easy to handle! I think it would be nigh on impossible to mince the meat & mix without a food processor though, and I don’t want big chunks.
I still have a glut of end of season tomatoes in the green house and this would be great to whizz up a soup.
I would like to make an apple and blackberry pie
I’d like to try making different nut butters, and this is definitely a job for a processor!
Using it to make my pizza doughs,so much better that shop bought.
I’m dying to do pastry again. My last processor blew up and my hands just aren’t cold enough.
we will use it for everthing SOUP SAUCES MIXTURES EVEN CMOOTHIES
I would make soups
I’d love to make my own pesto, to go in a goats cheese linguine!
I’m dying to make my mums meat and veg plate pies but I can’t use my right hand very well anymore so this would be heaven.
I would make a nice apple crumble with the kids as they would enjoy making it and eating it.
I am definelty going to bake this apple pie, i love that youve used wholemeal flour.
I have loads of basil and really want to make pesto but need a food processor !!
CORN BEEF HASH PLENTY OF ONIONS AND CORN BEEF IDEAL FOR A WINTERS DAY
i love homemade soup so id use this to make them, my favourite is spinach chick pea and chorizo
I would use it to make some Vegan Pumpkin Brownies 😀
I would use it to make some Vegan Pumpkin Brownies 😀
It’s pastry for me. I haven’t got the patience to do it and a food processor would save time!
Inspired by my eldest son I have, over the past year become a vegan and I am finding vegan cookery quite time consuming. A food processor would speed up the preparation of salads with a lot of grated veg and bean burgers or bean and walnut spreads.
It would make making breadcrumbs so much easier – I make my own for coating fish and chicken as I need gluten free ones. Also nut-roast would be much easier.
I’d like to make a decent apple crumble
I’ve been using my mum’s food processor to make my Thai Green Curry Paste. It’s a bit of a palaver jumping into the car and driving over to hers for that reason (although always nice to catch up over a cup of coffee). So this would be very useful and time saving too
I would use it to make Carrot cake as my family loves it.. Food processor would make my recipe so easy
There are a lot of different bread recipes I have collected over the years that I would love to try, such as Portuguese rolls. I am always put off by the kneading process. I always struggle with all aspects of it, like the mess is creates and simply the amount of effort it takes. So, if the dough blade works as advertised, I would be willing to make bread much more often.
I would use it to make a variety of soups. Finally started making homemade soup and my husband loved it!
I love making soup so probably a sweet potato and parsnip soup
I’d love to make my own nut loaf but have always been put off by the amount of nuts that need chopping, so this would be perfect!
I know it’s a simple recipe, but the thing I most want to make is humus. I’ve never used a food processor before, so I would love to be able to do some of the simple things, that others seem to do without thinking about it 🙂
Excellent prize, perfect and just in time for Christmas
Pastry for pies! I just find it so time consuming to do it by hand and I want to make my own pies again.
I would love to attempt to make a vege soup, and to pursue a healthier lifestyle of more homecooked meals and tasty healthy food.
To make lots of healthy warming soup in the winter/
This food processer would be so handy. I would whip up everything from curry pastes to soups, hummus to chopping lots of veg. They’re also great for combining butter and flour for pastry.
I’ve only got a mini-blender which is too small when I want to do breadcrumbs for making breaded chicken or fish. I have to part at a time, tip it out and start again, so this would be so much more convenient
I would make my own coleslaw
An apple crumble sounds a fab idea!
When hubby bought us a stand mixer I made the mistake of getting rid of my ancient food processor which made great pastry. I’ve not made any good pastry since.
Definitely apple crumble. It’s one of my favourites but I can’t stand doing it by hand and having all the mixture stuck under my nails, yuck
I know exactly what you mean Jo. A food processor definitely helps.
I’m itching to make my own chutneys and curry pastes 🙂 x
I would use it for chopping lots of vegetables to make a lovely vegetable soup.
I think pastry is unbeatable in the food processor . Unfortunately I have only ever had a mini processor and that really doesn’t work for pastry!
Broccoli and stilton soup. Homemade is the best and it’s my favourite! 🙂
I’d use it for chopping and grating the homegrown ingredients for coleslaw.
I would bake some yummy cakes
i hate the feeling when making a crumble on your hands and that it all sticks after. id love it for this to make an apple crumble
apple scones are my most popular
Im dying to make pasyry. I really want to make a meat and potato pie
I would use it to make a bearnaise sauce for our favourite family dinner. After wearing my wrist out and spilling half the butter all over the hob, a helping hand from a brand new VonShef will save me from trying to be ambidextrous.
that would be lovely tomato soup with red peppers
I’d make a rhubarb and plum crumble for my husband. It’s his favourite 🙂
oh I do love an apple pie, and I’m loving how neatly you’ve laid your apples! I haven’t made an apple pie this apple season yet, and we have so many apples!
It must be time to make one Helen. Nothing quite beat an apple pie.
I would love it because I cook a lot of casseroles and soups and this is far more powerful than my current little blender which struggles (it is about 8 years old now I guess a trip to the great blender in the sky approaches)
i would like to win becuase i cant make pastry and i need help!
I love that you made spelt pastry – i’m always looking for ways of incorporating different flours into baking! #gbbobloggers2017 I’d use the food processor to make short work of shortbread! x
Ooh, never thought of making shortbread in it. What a good idea. It would probably be spelt shortbread 😉
My apple tree fell down thsi year and could not be saved. so I would make a pear cake with pears donated from my neighbours tree
After my TIA left me with only one working arm so had to cut down on my baking, so if i won one of these the first thing id make is a crumble and breadcrumbs for some chicken, so thank you for the chance x
Oh goodness. One working arm sounds hard. Good luck with the giveaway.
Love to win this,I need all the help I can get in the kitchen,love to cook.
I’m really keen to start making my own hummus and experimenting with different flavourings like caramelised onion or harissa!
I would love to make my own pie after seeing that one! I would also love to make my own coleslaw too!
i would use it help with the pastry for my cornish pasties…soooo yummy
A nice warming vegetable soup.
With school & Brownie autumn and Christmas fayres looming, I need to get making and baking (and possibly freezing!!!)
would love to make a nice pea and ham soup with my own ingrewdients – a food processor would definitely come in useful for that!!
Well now winter is fast approaching. I think is time to makes some warm hearty soups. Mine has to be tomato soup.
I would use it to grind the breadcrumbs and cheese to top stuffed mushrooms. It takes ages to do it properly by hand so this would solve the problem.
I’d love to make hummus in a food processor.
Plum pie
I would like to make Jamie Oliver’s snack balls, this would crush the ingredients brilliantly.
I’d like to make my own coleslaw
Carrot Cake would be exciting or Cheese Cake! Yum!
I would love to try making different nut butters because I buy and use them all the time but they can be quite expensive
It would be perfect for making a good cheesecake! Perfect for grinding the base and then afterwards mixing or grinding the nuts for the topping!
I’m desperate to make my own homemade lamb burgers and red cabbage coleslaw! 😀 Think that’d make me very popular x
an apple and pear strudel as had one a couple of weeks ago; was delicious and would like to replicate it
I would my make pastry with orange zest for my mince pies ready for Santa and his little elves
I’d love to make a apple and blackberry pie, love the storage facility on this food processor
I’d love to make rhubarb crumble I’ve never had a food processor before and have wanted one for ages
i love fruit milkshakes using real fruit, so this would be ideal to mash up the fruit i;e bananas, before adding some ice cream and milk
I love the fact this is such a healthy pie recipe! Apart from being delicious:) I’ve been using spelt four lately myself with good results, but haven’t tried the wholewheat version. Thank you for bringing your lovely pie to #CookBlogShare!
Wholemeal all the way Monika. Give it a try. All that bran really helps in bakes to mitigate against ingredients that might not be quite so good 😉
My very good friend is vegan, and I would love to make her a 5 course meal, including a big cake!
bean burgers, vegan ‘cheesecake’ and flapjacks, fruit crumbles and pastries.
I would love to make my own curry pastes – went on a Thai cooking course and haven’t been able to manage any of the recipes at home because a mortar and pestle doesn’t quite cut it (literally!).
Energy bars! I’d love to be able to whizz up a load of dates and nuts, then just add any flavours you like and you’re done. That would be fabulous.
I make loads of energy balls now – it’s so easy with a food processor and they are so delicious.
This food processor would be excellent in making an apple crumble
Lovely pie! I have never made wholemeal pastry before as thought it might be a bit tricky to handle. It’s great to know it’s not really the case (will be trying the yoghurt for binding). I tend to use food processor for my pastry all the time as it’s so much quicker plus my hands are too hot to handle the pastry too much lol. VonShef looks like a great processor and storage drawer is a fantastic idea! x
Thanks Jo. Pastry used to be my nemesis until I discovered the yoghurt trick. I’ve only ever made wholemeal pastry though – or sometimes half and half.
I would use it to make courgette & lemon soup & home made bread rolls to go with it.
I will definitely be making the Chickpea, feta and butternut squash pie, sounds amazing
I’d make lots of different soups – it would certainly speed up the process! It would also be great for the pastry when making my home-made glutenfree mince pies.
A bit boring but I would use it to grate. I love grating but always fear for my finger tips!
Love pie especially apple and pear so would love to make that
I would make an Eve’s Pudding with the apples we have on our apple tree in the garden.
Ooh yum. I haven’t made Eve’s pudding for years.
I’d use it to make my savoury cheese biscuits for my colleagues at the office
my son loves his apple pies, could mix up a lovely one with that
I’d love to try making my own nut butters, think of all the different flavour combos! Cinnamon and cashew or pistachio and lemon. It would also save a lot of chopping when making homemade salads and coleslaw 🙂
I would love to make a carrot cake using a food processor, its the best season for carrot cake plus it has always been a family favourite
This would be useful to me because I have been making my pastry by hand and this would speed up the process for me enormously.
I would use it to grate and slice the vegetables Having RA in the wrists makes doing this painful
It would enable me to make some hearty vegetable soups just in time for the winter.
A lovely crumble. Would make it so easy.
I would use the processor to make some homemade veggie burgers.
I’d go for a vegan version of this recipe – with hard vegan margarine / fat (Tomor or Trex) instead of butter and soya yoghurt instead of dairy yoghurt.
We’ve got beetroot in the garden at the moment so I’d try beetroot hummus
This would be fab for making everything from soups to cakes & pasrty.
I find creaming butter and sugar together rather messy and sometimes tiring so every baking recipe that I have that starts with the words cream butter and sugar.
ideal for my bread making efforts and fruit cake!
lots of grating, and make a lovely homemade apple crumble
i would buy some nice sirloin and grind it down to make burgers
pumpkin soup
I would like to make an apple and blackberry crumble and think the food processor would make it easy.
I would love to make an apple and blackberry pie xxx
I would love to make an apple and blackberry pie, I love a nice warm pie in the Autumn
I would be dying to make some warming and comforting Apple Pie with these dark nights drawing in x
WOW this would be wonderful for making tasty homemade soup!
I would make homemade tattie soup like my grannys fine thick soup 🙂
My mum used to make wholemeal pastry and I grew up on it so I definitely prefer it to plain white pastry. I will have to get some spelt flour to try your recipe and try adding a little yoghurt as it can be difficult to work with and I often find my finished bakes look a little more ‘rustic’ than I’d like! Thanks so much for sharing with #CookOnceEatTwice.
Snap. I grew up on wholemeal pastry too and I love the texture and flavour of it, but until I discovered the yoghurt trick I used to hate making it.
I’d use it to make roasted butternut squash and red pepper soup. I made some earlier this week and used a hand blender to blend and ended up with soup splashes everywhere to clear up!
wow, awesome giveaway, loving the apple pie, you made, making my mouth water! I personally would love to try and make a bread, like a sundried tomato bread, this is my fav and you cant buy it in the shops, so its up to me to make!
Thanks Karen. I’ve never tried sundries tomato bread – sounds delicious.
I love apple pie and i always use my nanny’s sweet pastry recipe because it is the best one. I love the colour of your pastry, made from using spelt flour. it looks so crisp and buttery
thank you for linking to #GBBOBloggers2017
The food processor looks great too, so versatile
Thanks Jenny. Making pastry must be a grandmother thing 😀
As a busy self employed wife and mum of two this would save me loads of time x
I’m dying to try making my own pastry rather buying ready made in all that packaging and with who knows what in it – palm oil for one!
Interesting recipe. The food processor would be great for making the pastry.
We would try making pesto. Did you read the news yesterday about how ready made pesto is higher in salt now than a few years ago? Shocked me into thinking we really must make our own. I mean, I like salt, but there’s a limit!
Yes I heard that Judith. I think that’s true of most ready made items. Homemade is generally best, though not always convenient or even possible.
To be honest I’ve never used a food processor and have always been intregued to know if pastry made in a food processor is as good as that made by hand. Looking at the pastry you’ve made for your apple pie it certainly looks to be as good. Love the idea of using yogurt in the pastry too – sound gorgeous!
Angela x
I mostly make my pastry by hand, but it’s just as good in a food processor and possibly better.
I love making chutney but preparing the fruits and onions by hand takes ages – this would speed things up so much!
Your apple pie looks amazing. I’d definitely have to give that a try.
I would use it for making and preparing soups also like to make my own pastry
I would love to make a classic crumble – they are just so moreish
lemon meringue pie, I can never get meringues right by hand so a food processor would be awesome for all sorts actually 🙂
I’d live to make more low fat hummus. My stick blender doesn’t get it really smooth
A chocolate fudge cake because it’s chocolate. What’s not to love?
I would use it to grate, grate, grate! Potatoes for soup, cheese for sandwiches and carrots for salads, yum! x
Pineapple Upside Down Pudding, my fav!
This would be perfect to make homemade dinners for my 7 month old daughter, I’m always buying mini pasties so I’d love to try to make some at home too xXx
We have an apple tree groaning with the weight of apples so I’d make some apple coleslaw and the food processor would save me chopping by hand.We also have a lot of pears so I could use it to make apple and pear crumble.
I would make pastry for sure as I’m always doing pastry by hand. That pie looks delicious
I nice crumble, they never seem to be as good when you do them by hand
I would love to make Maca Macaroons and Keto Chocolate Chunk Cookies.
I’d use it to make the base of my butterscotch cheesecake
i would make a yummy soup.
I’d love to make spicy tomato and grilled pepper soup in preparation for the cold winter evenings!
it would take the hard work out of making pastry as i always do it by hand
It would have to be pastry for a beef & onion pie I really fancy one!
Would love to make my favourite winter pudding an apple crumble
I would use it to make pastry…we love pies in our house and this would be ideal
Mmm what a delicious pie, I must try making pastry in my vonShef food processor!
Thanks Lucy. there’s nothing quite like homemade pie 😀
i would love to try and make a crumble for my family
The apple pie looks fantastic with 100% whole spelt flour.
Thanks Angie. I pretty much always use wholemeal spelt in my pastry. In fact I’ve never tried making pastry with only white flour.
I’ve seen a vegetable tart that looks lovely, the slicer attachment would make slicing the veg easier x
I would love to make my husband’s favorite pie when he was growing up, but it is a lot easier to chop up and mix the cookie crumb crust in a food processor!
I am dying to make my own coleslaw wit red cabbage!
Please give me a VonShef 1000
I’m dying to have a go
If you have ever seen me make pastry by hand
Its terribly messy and slow
So give me a VonShef 1000
I need all the help I can get
Then I could spice up our meal times
And produce pastry that isn’t soggy and wet.
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I thank you, and look forward to receiving my prize
***Bows out gracefully***
Hahaha Lynne, that’s brilliant. If it was all about the talent, you’d be winning this for sure. You’ve definitely won a new follow on Instagram though.
Haha, why thank you very much and thank you for the follow…I am soon to be starting a blog of my own 🙂
I’m dying to make my favourite spinach pesto and also a nice raw vegan chili.. I haven’t got a food processor at the moment so winning one would be amazing for me!
Oh raw vegan chilli sounds interesting Laura. I’m going to have to investigate that.
I would use it to grate my abundance of courgettes from the garden and make lots of spicy courgette fritters to freeze.
Oh well done on your courgettes. We didn’t grow any this year and the young plants were all eaten last year – I really missed wondering what on earth I was going to do with them all.
I would be dying to make a warming and comforting Apple & Blackberry Crumble!
Ah yes, you can never go wrong with one of those 😀
Banana and Nutella pancakes 🙂