Deep Dish Almond-Apple Pie

Ingredients:
1 package (15 ounces) refrigerated pie crust
3/4 C sugar
3/4 C brown sugar
1/4 C flour
1 tspn cinnamon
1/4 tspn nutmeg
1/4 tspn salt
8 medium apples
2/3 C sliced almonds
1/2 tspn almond extract
3 Tb butter

Directions:
Preheat oven to 375. Remove 1 crust from package and sprinkle both sides with flour. Roll crust out to 14 inches. Place in deep dish baker taking care not to stretch the dough. IN bowl combine the next 6 ingredients. Peel, core, and slice apples. Gently toss apple slices with sugar mixture. Turn into prepared pie crust.

Sprinkle apples with almonds and almond extract. Dot with small pieces of buter. Roll out second crust to 13 inches as described above. Place on top of fruit mixture; seal and flute. Bake 50-55 minutes or until filing bubbles and apples are tender. Cover edges of crusts with goil during last 15-20 minutes if desired to prevent over-browning.

*Recipe from The Pampered Chef Favorites II
**If I don't have any almonds on hand, I completely dismiss the almond and almond extract ingredients/directions. It still turns out amazing. It also helps if you have the Apple Peeler/Corer/Slicer from Pampered Chef, it saves tons of time!