Little Apple Pies. These mini apple pies may be small, but they're big on flavor! Little hands can help shape pie crusts with cookie cutters, which means you can have family time while you bake and eat. Pillsbury™ Mini Apple Pies come together fast with a Pillsbury™ pie crust cut into rou.
You can have Little Apple Pies using 13 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Little Apple Pies
- You need 1 of roll of refrigerated pie dough (I used my basic pie dough recipe).
- Prepare 5 of small Granny Smith apples, peeled, cored, and diced finely.
- Prepare 1/4 cup of granulated sugar.
- Prepare 1 teaspoon of ground cinnamon.
- It’s 2 tablespoons of lemon juice.
- It’s 1 tablespoon of cornstarch.
- It’s of For the Streusel Topping.
- Prepare 2 1/4 cups of all purpose flour.
- It’s 2/3 cup of brown sugar.
- You need 2/3 cup of granulated sugar.
- You need 2/3 cups of old fashioned oats.
- You need pinch of salt.
- You need 3/4 cups of butter, melted.
They're like little packets of comfort food that you can hold in your hand, almost like a cookie. They're warm and sweet, with an irresistibly flaky crust. Guaranteed to put a smile on your face on a cold, drizzly day! Remove the extra pie dough from the refrigerator, cut out your designs for the tops of the pies, and place them on top.
Little Apple Pies step by step
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray the wells of a standard size muffin tin with nonstick spray. Roll out dough onto a lightly floured surface, and cut out circles about 2 inches in diameter. Gather and re-roll unused dough and cut additional circles. use the rim of a small plastic cup. Place the circles in the bottom of each muffin well..
Add the apples, sugar, cinnamon, lemon juice, and cornstarch to a medium saucepan. Cook on medium heat, stirring occasionally for about 5-10 minutes until the apples have softened slightly and the juices begin to thicken. Remove from heat..
Add about one tablespoon of the apple filling on top of each circle of pie dough..
In a medium bowl, mix flour, brown sugar, granulated sugar, oats, and salt. Add melted butter and mix until well incorporated..
Add a heaping tablespoon of the streusel topping to each muffin well, and gently pat it down over the apples..
Cook about 20-25 minutes until crumbs are cruncy.
In a large bowl, beat cream cheese and butter until smooth. Combine flour and salt; gradually add to butter mixture until well blended. Place one slice of apple pie filling on each crust circle. Fold crust in half and pinch closed around the apple slice. Meanwhile, melt butter and whisk in powdered sugar, vanilla, and half a tablespoon milk to make a loose frosting for drizzling.
