Mini Apple Tree Pies

Before I kickoff telling you lot almost these adorable petty mini apple tree pies, I told you lot inward my final postal service how yesterday was John�s 2nd birthday political party together with that I would percentage pictures. It was such a bang-up day! The 24-hour interval before, I baked/cooked everything starting at 7AM together with ending at 1AM � beak almost EXHAUSTED! My Fri included: baking a huge cake, cupcakes, brownies, cookies, making truffles, making ii HUGE trays of manicotti (from scratch similar I exercise for almost every occasion using my Grandmother�s recipe � SO good!), together with buffalo wings. Oh yep together with decorating for almost 3 hours afterwards everything. I literally felt similar my dorsum was almost to interruption inward one-half past times the destination of the night!! It was all worth it though, because the adjacent 24-hour interval was a BREEZE together with my petty birthday man child was absolutely thrilled amongst all of the trucks together with decorations, he had a blast! Well, hither are the pictures! (Sorry, they�re iPhone photos!)


Ingredients:

  • 5 cups peeled, cored together with chopped small-scale Granny Smith Apples
  • 1 tbs lemon juice
  • 1/2 loving cup chocolate-brown sugar
  • 1/2 loving cup granulated sugar
  • 1/4 loving cup cornstarch
  • 1 1/2 tsp cinnamon
  • 1/4 tsp nutmeg
  • pinch salt
  • 2 cups water
  • 1 packet (2 9") store-bought pie crust
  • sugar for sprinkling
  • 1 egg beaten for egg wash

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Grease a 12-cup muffin tin thoroughly together with railroad train aside.

Peel center together with chop apples into small-scale pieces together with toss amongst some lemon juice. Set aside.

Combine sugars, cornstarch, cinnamon, nutmeg together with common salt inward a small-scale saucepan. Pour inward H2O together with stir until incorporated. On medium heat, convey mixture to a gentle boil for 3 minutes stirring often to foreclose scorching on the bottom. Once mixture is thickened slightly, add together apples together with toss bringing he mixture to a gentle boil in 1 lawsuit again. Reduce the caput to depression together with simmer for 10 minutes or until the apples are tender. Take mixture off oestrus together with permit it to cool slightly.

While mixture is cooling, thaw pie crusts if needed together with unroll 1 crust onto a apartment surface. Start past times cutting 3 1/2 - 4" circles amongst a cookie cutter or rim of a glass/bowl. Place each disk into each muffin tin cavity, pressing them into the bottom together with upwards the sides. Fill amongst apple tree pie filling almost 2/3 to the top.

With the 2d pie crust, unroll together with cutting into 1/2" strips. Cut the long strips into 2 1/2" smaller strips. On a apartment surface, house 3 strips vertically together with 3 strips horizontally, creating a lattice pattern. Press downwardly slightly amongst the palm of your paw together with hence that they stick together. Refer to the moving painting inward the postal service for a visual. (You tin skip this pace all together together with simply exercise the lattice designing the traditional agency together with house them individually on exceed of the mini pies. Alternately, you lot tin fifty-fifty simply skip the lattice all together together with simply cutting out a bunch of circles, house them on exceed together with cutting vent holes inward the tops.)

Transfer lattice crust to the muffin tins together with house on exceed of the apple tree pie filling. Press downwardly slightly to a greater extent than or less the edges together with trim down away the excess amongst a sudden knife.

Brush the tops of the apple tree pies amongst egg wash, sprinkle them amongst some saccharide together with bake for 15-17 minutes or until tops are lightly golden together with cooked through.

Mini apple tree pies are best served the same 24-hour interval made but volition run on for upwards to 2 days stored inward an airtight container.


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