When a slice of pie just doesn’t work. Make mini pie tarts! It’s a mini pie with yummy apples and flaky pastry. So grab some Granny Smith apples and some spices to make a new favorite for the holidays.
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Mini Apple Pie Tarts
Equipment
- cupcake pan
- Apple peeler
- pastry roller
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 Cups flour
- 1/3 Cup sugar
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 stick butter 1/2 cup
- 3 Tbsp cold milk
- 2 Tbsp corn starch or flour
- 5-6 large Granny Smith apples
- 1/4 Cup sugar
- 1/2 Cup brown sugar
- 2 tsp cinnamon
- 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
Instructions
- 1. In large bowl, mix flour, sugar, salt.
- 2. Cut in cold butter with pastry blender, fork, or use your hands. Make small butter beads.
- 3. Add cold milk and stir until a stiff dough.
- 4. Roll into ball. Flour a board and roll out.
- 5. Use a 4-inch cookie cutter or biscuit cutter. Or cut round shapes with a knife.
- 6. Place pastry rounds in the greased cupcake pans.
- 7. Peel and cut apples into small pieces.
- 8. In a bowl, mix apples, sugar, brown sugar, cinnamon, corn starch or flour, and vanilla extract.
- 9. Spoon apple mix into pastry rounds.
- 10. Bake at preheated oven 350 F for 30 - 40 minutes until apples are tender.
Lisa Lewis Burns says
November 19, 2019 at 7:28 amHi Jill!
I haven’t made these yet, but I am going to make them. Do you think I could make mini pumpkin pies too? I’m just tired of having so many leftover desserts and this seems to be the solution!
xo Lisa
Jill Christine Lodato says
November 19, 2019 at 7:35 amYes, definitely. I would use a thinner pie crust for pumpkin pie because it is a shorter bake time. Sounds yummy.