Food & Wine
Mini apple pies
Small in size but big on flavour, these mini apple pies really hit the sweet spot when you’re after an afternoon treat. One to try with the grandkids!
Serves: 12
Ingredients:
- 1 ¼ cups plain flour
- ⅓ cup caster sugar, plus extra to sprinkle
- ¼ cup almond meal
- 125g cold butter, chopped
- 1 egg
- 1 to 2 tablespoons water
- Cream, to serve
Filling
- 400g can pie apple
- 1 teaspoon mixed spice
Method:
- To begin, sift your flour into a large bowl, then stir in sugar and the almond meal.
- Using your fingertips, rub in butter until the mixture looks like breadcrumbs.
- Add egg and water until you’ve formed a firm dough and knew lighting.
- Roll into ball, wrap the dough in plastic and chill for half an hour.
- Now it’s time to prepare the filling, by combining apple and spice in a bowl.
- Preheat your oven to 200°C to prepare it for baking.
- Lightly grease your muffin pan.
- Roll about two thirds of the pastry between two sheets of baking paper.
- Once it’s about half a centimetre thick, use a cookie cutter to cut 12 circles from the pastry.
- Easy into recesses and trim edges. Make sure you prick the bases with a fork.
- Bake for about 10 minutes then let cool slightly.
- Spoon filling into each case then crumble remaining pastry over pies.
- Sprinkle with extra sugar and bake for 25 minutes.
- Sprinkle with caster sugar and serve.
Don’t you just love apple pie? Do you have any suggestions for the recipe? Let us know in the comments.
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