Mini Apple Crumble Pies

 

So this entire post was bred from a failure of mine in the kitchen. Like all of you have seen I am sure, social media has been inundated with fun quick cooking videos that essentially show cooking as this easy process that yields amazing results with just a simple screen wipe. But if any of you have ever read the comments below those videos (just a hint, they’re hilarious), you’ll soon discover that those videos are usually not telling the whole story. Whether the food actually tastes bad or just fundamentally is not possible, the comments always yield hilarious but mostly truthful results.

This is where I come in, I was getting desserts ready for a party I was hosting at my house, and I seen a fun apple hand-pie recipe on one of these videos. So of course, I thought to myself, “I’m a food blogger, this video will be a breeze!”

Just see for yourself.

I could not have been more wrong. I have the spacial relation skills of a silverback gorilla, so when I attempted to fill said hand pies I overfilled them and trying to form them into any sort of modicum of a pie soon proved to be an impossibility. It also didn’t help that my pie dough didn’t roll out properly so I was left with a crumbly ball of pie dough filled with apple pie filling. So I basically as they say in the business, I shit the bed.

But when one shits the bed, you can’t just wallow in it, you have to pick yourself up and fix the problem. I still needed to make a dessert for two reasons, I had guests coming and two I wanted some damn website content. So I quickly scraped out my filling back into the bowl and figured out that I could make mini open face pies instead.

I sprayed muffin tins and then formed a mini pie crust into the tins. I then filled them with the apple pie filling (this time with the appropriate amount) and then  I laid a delicious crumble on top.

The end result was deliciousness (Thank God).

So let this be a lesson to all of you out there, those videos are usually a farce and even if they are feasible even the best of us can F them up (Big time.)

 

Recipe

Ingredients

1 Package of Pie Dough ( 2 Sheets)

4 Cups of Peeled Diced Apples

1/3 Cup of Brown Sugar

2 Tsp. Cinnamon

2 Tbsp. Butter

1 Tbsp. Corn Starch

(Crumble)

1/2 cup Butter

1 cup Brown Sugar

3/4 Cup of Oats

(To make crumble, melt butter, then add it to  sugar and oats mixture. Allow it to refrigerate for 10 to 15 minutes. Take it out and break it up with a fork, should resemble a crumbely mixture)

Method

Step 1 – Mix the apples, brown sugar, cinnamon, and corn starch together.

Step 2- In a large pan, heat the butter.

Step 3- Add the apple mixture to the pan, and saute until the apples turn a dark golden brown color (essentially apple pie filling)

Step 4-  In a muffin tin, Press the pieces of pie dough into the tins so that the dough covers all the sides (this is inexact)

Step 5- Pour the filling in.

Step 6- Top the mini pies with the crumble.

Step 7 – Bake in your oven at 350F for about 15 to 20 minutes, pie crust should be golden brown.

Step 8 – Use a rubber spatula to spoon out the pies once they’ve cooled.