Mini Apple Pies

After a failed attempt at a fall Pinterest craft, Alison and I decided to make mini apple pies! I've had this recipe printed for a little over a month now that I've been wanting to try - so it was the perfect opportunity! We had all of the ingredients to make them except for the apples and pie crust, so we made a quick trip to the grocery store. 

Ingredients: 

- 8 cups of apples (approximately 7 large apples)

Note: We used honeycrisp apples and they worked perfectly!

- 12 tablespoons of flour

- 1 1/2 cups of sugar

- 4 heaping teaspoons of cinnamon

- 1/4 - 1/2 teaspoon of nutmeg 

- 4 tablespoons of chilled butter

- 2 boxes of Pillsbury pie crusts (4 chilled, not frozen crusts)

This recipe makes 24 mini apples pies.

Start by cutting up eight cups of apples into small 1/2 inch pieces. 

In a large bowl, mix the apples with the flour, sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg. (Note - it will be a little dry at first, but once it sits for a few minutes, the moisture from the apples with make the mix more wet). 

Unroll your pie crust and cut several circles out. Continue this until you have enough pie crusts. (Originally the recipe said to use a lid from a widemouth mason jar; however, we used the top of a glass because the mason jar lid cut the pieces too small for the tins.)

Spray your tins with cooking spray and begin to line each muffin tin with a tiny pie crust. 

Begin to gently fill the crusts with your apple mixture, so that they are slightly mounded on the top.

With the chilled butter, you will want to cut the pieces into 24 equal portions. Once you have all of your pieces, place them on the top of each individual pie.

With the left over dough/pie crust, cover each mini pie with small pieces as desired.

Brush the tops with melted butter (this will make the tops brown in the oven).

Bake at 400 degrees for 22 minutes. (You'll want to start checking the mini pies after 10 minutes, and about 2-3 minutes after that until they look ready).

When you're done, you'll want to place each mini pie on a cooling rack for about 20 minutes.

When they're done, you are ready to enjoy! Your kitchen will smell AMAZING!  Dad suggests adding a little scoop of vanilla ice cream, and you'll have the perfect little treat for a fall afternoon. I recommend popping them in the microwave for a few seconds right before you're ready to enjoy - they're so good warm!!

A huge shout out to Alison - thank so much for your help with these!! :) Our husbands were very happy with the final product!!