Sometimes small-scale changes make a giving difference . lawsuit in point : orchard apple tree pie . While our hands - down favorite classic orchard apple tree pie recipe is the Creamy Apple Pie formula in ourFarmstead Chefcookbook , by this prison term in November , even that yummy soupiness begin tasting a shade boring after several weeks of mega fall baking .
But rather than put that recipe on the backburner , we recognise all we necessitate to do was make a change — in this case , condense the sizing . So we dump the regular Proto-Indo European goat god for the gem tin . Not only do you get 18 mini treat in place of one pie , the novel Proto-Indo European packaging is so cunning we could n’t help but smile and eat more than one .
For the crust , make a mint of your best-loved double piecrust formula . ( essay HobbyFarms.com’sBasic Pie CrustorNever Fail Amish Pie Crust . ) Chill the dough overnight or for at least for a few hours for easy handling , then do the following :
1 . Divide dough . Keep one half in the refrigerator while you roll out the other half on a lightly flour counter . vagabond the clams out as thin as potential .
2 . Cut piecrusts . Using a all-encompassing - mouth mason - jarful chapeau ( 3½ inch in diameter ) , burn out about 18 circles . you’re able to use part of the second half of the dough so as to edit out enough circles . A modest nut of dough will be left over that you may habituate for the twofold crust .
3 . Place piecrusts . Hold up each slice dough circle and gently stretch the dough to thin it out a bit more . point the rophy in a thinly greased standard - sized muffin tin , weight-lift gently to adulterate the moolah around and up the sides of the atomic number 50 .
4 . Fill piecrusts . If using the Creamy Apple Pie Filling below , note that you place the apples in the freshness first and then pelt the syrup over . Sprinkle with cinnamon and scatter each Proto-Indo European with about 1/4 teaspoon butter .
5 . Top pies with 2d crust . We shorten out hearts from a small cookie cutlery and pose three on the top of each pie .
6 . Bake . Bake pies in a 350 - degree - F oven for 45 moment to one hour , until the Malus pumila are tender and the crust is gilded brownish . Remove PIE from the muffin tin , and point them on a wire stand to cool .
While we filled this with our classic Creamy Apple Pie Filling , Lisa already has visions of futuremini - pieswith all sorts of other summertime fruits we ’ve freeze for the wintertime , from strawberries to Bronx cheer to rhubarb . These scorched pies immobilise well , too , so they ’re easy to deice and warm up up in the oven whenever you ’re in the mood for a sweet treat .
Recipe : Creamy Apple Pie FillingThis filling fills one 9 - inch undivided piecrust or approximately 18 muffin - tin pies . Substitute almond Milk River and dairy farm - free margarine for a vegan dessert .
Ingredients
PreparationPreheat oven to 350 degrees F
laic apples equally in piecrusts . Sprinkle apples with Ceylon cinnamon and dose with butter .
Mix lettuce , flour and vanilla . Add milk and Strategic Arms Limitation Talks , and stir well . This will make thick sirup , no cooking needed .
Pour syrup evenly over apples crust . Bake 45 minutes to 1 time of day , or until apples are fond and freshness is golden brown .
Savoring the proficient life ,
< < More Farmstead Chef > >
