It's Easter! This weekend we remember that, 2000 years ago, Jesus turned eggs into chocolate to feed the people at Cana, but then hid them in all in the backyard (sneaky bastard). So yeah, I made mini apple pies!
I adapted a recipe off a Dutch apple pie blog for the dough, adding cinnamon and chopped hazelnuts. For the filling, I mixed apple, pear and raisins with cinnamon, nutmeg and cardamom. The dough especially turned out really well. It is the best apple pie dough I've ever had.
Mini Apple Pies (makes 3):
Dough
150 g whole wheat flour
100 g non-dairy butter
80 g dark brown sugar
1 tsp baking powder
a dash of salt
1 1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/4 cup chopped hazelnuts
Filling
1 apple
1 pear
1 tsp lemon juice
2 tbsp dark brown sugar
2 tbsp raisins
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1/2 tsp cardamom
Pre-heat the oven to 175 C and grease your mini pie tins. For the dough, sift together flour, spices, baking powder and sugar. Cut in butter. Knead it into a crumbly dough with your fingers. Refrigerate.
For the filling, core, quarter and slice the apple and pear. Make the slices fairly thin. Mix with lemon juice. Add sugar, raisins and spices. Stir.
Reserve 2/5ths of the dough. Use the rest to line the tins. Spoon in the filling. Use the remainder of the dough to make swanky lattices for the tops (I didn't do this, because I made my crusts pretty thick, but it's pretty easy).
Bake for 20 minutes.
I'll leave you with a close-up of one of the apple pies. I'm really proud of them. They look so cute and they're soooo tasty!
This will be the first in a short series of posts on Easter food. One will be a review of a new product I found in the supermarket today and the other more tasty stuff. Happy Easter!
Sunday, 23 March 2008
Easter I: Mini Apple Pies
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5 comments:
Those are SO cute!
happy easter!
for a moment I got confused when you were talking about apple pie *dough*, since I've never had dutch apple pie before! I'm intrigued... they're like a cross between cake and pie, maybe? Anyway, they look delicious!
Those look oh so cute and incredibly delicious. I have to try that recipe! I don't own any of those nice little mini tins though, so that's a pity.
Happy Easter to you too!
romina - thanks!
liz - Should it be "pie crust dough" instead? I could very well be using the wrong word. I know Dutch apple pie does have a thicker, more cakey crust, though.
bonnie - thanks! I love the mini tins, but it'd be fine in a normal tin and you don't really get much use out of them. It just means you're missing out on the tiny cuteness!
What Would Jesus Do? He would make these pies. So, who am I to argue with the Lord?
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