Pie! Who doesn’t love pie! Not I, that’s for sure 🙂 This week Mom was charged with coming up with a dessert that was both easy to make and one that could be handled easily at a party. These little Caramel Apple Hand Pies were the perfect solution and boy, are they tasty! Shape ’em like footballs and they’d make an excellent dessert for a Super Bowl Party, or shape ’em like hearts for Valentine’s Day. Either way you go, these are sure to be an easy crowd pleaser 😉
Caramel Apple Hand Pies
Author: NorCal Coupon Gal
Recipe type: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Ingredients
- 1 box store-bought refrigerated pie crust (2 rolls) *I like to use Pillsbury
- 3 Granny Smith apples, peeled and diced small
- 2 tbsp. all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- ¼ cup granulated sugar
- 10 store-bought soft caramels, cut into quarters
- Juice of ½ lemon
- Egg wash (1 egg whisked with 1 Tablespoon water)
- White sanding sugar, large crystals
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 425ºF and line a baking sheet with Silpat or parchment paper.
- In a small bowl, combine the diced apples, lemon juice, cinnamon, sugar and flour. Mix until apples are thoroughly coated. Set aside.
- Unroll the pie dough onto a well-floured surface. Using a 3-inch circular cookie cutter or glass, cut out as many circles as possible. Roll out the scraps and continue cutting out circles until you run out of dough.
- Spoon 1 tablespoon of the apple filling into the center of half of the pie circles. Make sure to leave enough of a border around the filling to seal them shut and be careful not to overfill.
- Top the apple filling with a few pieces of caramel.
- Brush around the edges of the dough with a finger dipped in egg wash.
- Place a second dough circle on top each filled circle then use a fork to crimp the edges together.
- Brush each pie with the egg wash, and cut two vents on the top of each pie with a sharp knife. Sprinkle the pies with crystal sanding sugar and place on prepared sheet pan.
- Refrigerate for 30 minutes.
- Bake the pies for 15 minutes, or until they’re golden brown.