Apple Pies Made in a Muffin Pan
photo by Baby Kato
- Ready In:
- 1hr
- Ingredients:
- 12
- Serves:
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12
ingredients
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Filling
- 4 (250 ml) apples, cored, peeled and finely chopped
- 125 ml raisins
- 50 ml sugar
- 250 ml water
- 5 ml cinnamon
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shortcrust pastry
- 250 g butter (2 1/2 sticks)
- 200 ml sugar
- 2 eggs
- 5 ml vanilla essence
- 4 (250 ml) cake flour
- 15 ml baking powder
- 1 pinch salt
directions
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Filling:
- Bring all ingredients to the boil, reduce heat and simmer til cooked.
- Cool and refrigerate til needed.
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Shortcrust pastry:
- Cream butter and sugar well.
- Beat eggs and vanilla and add to the butter mixing well.
- Sift dry ingredients and mix into butter until soft dough forms.
- Roll dough out thinly and cut out 12 x 6 inch rounds to line muffin pan.
- Spoon equal amounts of apple filling into dough rounds.
- Grate remaining dough on top of apple mixture and bake at 350F for 25mins.
- Switch off stove and leave tartlets in for a further 5 minutes.
- Remove from stove and leave to cool until cold IN THE PAN before removing.
- Dredge with icing sugar and serve with cream if so desired.
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Reviews
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Delicious, simply delicious tarts, beautiful presentation and easy to make. They turned out perfectly. They were flavourful and tender, just wonderful. I used my own warm spice mix and golden raisins and tart apples. I will definitely make these again, next time I will double the recipe. Perfect for company, very elegant.
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Superb! I love recipes like this - I often make my pommes Dauphinoise in muffin tins!! These were made for Easter Day teatime, and they went down very well with family and friends. I used my own Apple Pie sugar and spice mixture for these little pies....we ate them warm with creme fraiche. Thanks for posting this simple and delightful recipe! FT:-)
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I cannot give it any stars because I did not follow the recipe exactly. I love the idea of little pies though. I cheated and used frozen puff pastry sheets. I used one sheet and cut into 12 pieces, then rolled thinner to fit the muffin tin. I also made my own crumb topping with 1/2 cup whole wheat flour, 1/2 cup rolled oats, 1/4 cup room temp butter, 1/2 cup brown sugar, 1/2 teaspoon each of cinnamon & nutmeg. Thank you for a great idea.
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Bokenpop aka Mad
Milford, Delaware
I was born and raised in South Africa but now live in Delaware USA. Since I can remember I have been cooking! My first real cooking experience was when I was 7. I came home from school one afternoon and felt like French toast. My elder brother was home with his friends and did not want to make it for me, so I got a pan out, put it on the stove, turned the stove on to high. After that I could not remember what to do, but I knew that French toast involved bread so I put the bread in the hot pan without grease and poured milk over it! Oy vey... My brother's friend asked me what I was trying to make and I told him. He laughed and told me I was making it wrong but he also taught me how to make French toast the right way. I came home every day after that and made French toast. I felt so confident with the little bit of knowledge I had acquired that I soon started experimenting with other things. Nothing was going to stop me! The first full meal I ever made for my family was boiled rice and oven roasted chicken pieces with a steamed vegetable medley. I was 8 years old and my mom was in hospital. My dad was struggling to hold down an intensely busy job, keep the family going and be with my mom, so I thought I would help him. I don't think he believed that I had done it on my own. I remember telling him that I read in a cookery book how to make a roast chicken but I did not know what "a" rosemary was so I just put the chicken in the dish without it. Decades later with a myriad tried and tested recipes behind me - flops and failures included - I know my way around any food item and kitchen utensil, much to my family's delight!