Who doesn’t enjoy a mini pie? I whipped these up in about 20 minutes for a party and they were yummy! I of course used store bought crust because, let’s face it, I avoid baking at all costs and I certainly don’t do crust. As far as apple pie goes, this is a pretty standard variety — which was exactly what I was craving.
Mini Apple Pies
Makes 12 mini pies
Just the Tip / Recipe from Little Bit Funky
What I used:
- 4 cups apples (about 4 apples), peeled, cored, and cubed into 1/2″ pieces
- 6 tbsp flour (I used white whole wheat since that’s all I keep in the house)
- 3/4 cup raw cane sugar
- 2 heaping tsp cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp nutmeg
- 2-3 pillsbury pie crusts (I used 3 which made the crusts easier to to cut out, but it could also be done with 2 in a pinch)
- 2 tbsp chilled butter cut into 12 equal pieces
- 1 tbsp butter, melted
What I did:
- Preheat oven to 400.
- In a large bowl, toss the apples with the sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, and flour.
- Using a 3.5-4″ biscuit cutter (or a large-ish lid of some sort), cut out 12 circles from your pie crust. Arrange the circles in the cups of a muffin tin. Reserve the scraps.
- Spoon the apple mixture into the muffin tins until slightly mounded. Add a piece of butter on top of each pie, and then top with the reserved scraps of dough and seal the pies as well as you can.
- Brush with the melted butter and bake for about 20 minutes until lightly golden. Let cool and remove from the tins.
Just the right size for the 2 of us. Apple is my husbands favorite and I know he will enjoy these.
Marsha, I hope you both enjoy!
I printed Mini Apple Pies. Much to my surprise SEVEN pages were needed. When I hit print, I only want to print the receipe not your ads or your blog comments. You need to streamline this a bit. Color ink is too expensive to waste. Also, you might make your example picture smaller and fit everyhing on one page.
Kathy, thanks for your feedback. You might want to familiarize yourself with printfriendly.com in the meantime.
I love this idea BUT I think a crumb topping would be more appealing than the crust topping. Otherwise a great idea and one can use their own filling recipes or store bought apple pie filling.
Lynn, I love the idea of a crumb topping! I was also thinking of doing this with cherry pie filling…mmmm.
Um, you don’t have to print all the pages! Just print the pages you WANT. Just sayin’
As for me, I am heading to the store for some Granny Smith apples. Got a real craving
going on here. Thanks {;
š Hope you enjoy!
Vanessa,
Thank you for the Printfriendly.com site info. It works great. I also tried your Mini Apple Pies and my family went crazy over them! Thanks again for the recipe as well as the printer tips. You are the tops!
Thank you — glad you liked them!
They look so good I think I will try to make them, wish me luck
Let me know how they turn out!
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