Luckily, there's an old-fashioned answer to this dessert dilemma: An apple pan dowdy (or pandowdy) is everything you love about apple pie, but with much less work. In this recipe, we top brown ...

Dinah Shore's "Shoofly Pie and Apple Pan Dowdy" even topped the Billboard chart in 1946. The ode raves, "Shoo Fly Pie and Apple Pan Dowdy makes your eyes light up, [and] your tummy say 'Howdy.'" ...