All American Mini Apple Pies

My sister Lauren is in town with her boyfriend so we stayed up until 12:30 last night talking, playing with Tristan & sampling new beers. I also made a Pumpkin Chocolate Cheesecake which we will be trying tonight so if it's delicious it will be posted early next week. And that garlic breaded broccoli will be made this weekend as well. I am craving it so badly & just can't wait until Thanksgiving to have my Mom's.

I have made these mini apple pies a few times & they're always a hit. They're easy to make & fun because they're minis. I LOVE individual desserts like this. Forgive me as this is not the best presentation of them. I was rushing making the tops for them so usually they're prettier & just when we were going to smack them with some cool whip the camera died. So, just visualize.........and then go make 'em!!!!!!

2 medium tart baking apples
1/4 cup sugar
2 tsp flour
3/4 tsp cinnamon
1 sheet refrigerated pie crust

Pre-heat oven to 425. Grease a 12 hole muffin tin. Peel, core & chop apples. Combine apples with sugar, flour & cinnamon. Open & unroll pie crust. Flatten out a bit with rolling pin. Cut out 5 circles using a 4 inch wide bowl. Reserve scraps for top of pies. Press a circle inside each muffin hole. Evenly divide apple mixture into each. Use scraps to either make circles to cover top or cut into strips to do a lattice. Make sure you connect your top design to the bottom by gently squeezing, otherwise when the crust fluffs up it will disconnect itself.

Fill empty muffin spaces with water 1/4 way up. Bake until bubbling & golden brown, about 15 minutes. Let pies cool for 10 minutes & then carefully remove from tin with a spoon or by turning upside down into a platter.
Serve with ice cream or cool whip.

My Thoughts:

I like making this half mixture when I am crunched for time but still need something sweet for a few people. If you're going to double the recipe to use an entire 12 cup muffin tin remember that you might need 3 sheets of pie crusts if you 're going to do more than just strips of lattice work for the top of your pies. I like to do a variation.

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Have a great weekend everyone!!!!! I leave you with one photo of my beautiful Dark Knight.