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Indulgent Caramel apple filled apple hand pie

Easy apple hand pie

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Apple pie is a sweet pie with a decadent and succulent apple filling, an excellent comfort food.
Prep Time 45 minutes
Cook Time 40 minutes
Course Appetizer, Breakfast, Dessert, Side Dish, Snack
Cuisine American, British, world
Servings 4

Ingredients
  

Dough

  • Easy pie dough
  • 1 tablespoon sugar

Filling

  • 3-4 apples
  • 2 tablespoons butter
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • ¼ cup white sugar
  • 2 tablespoons brown sugar
  • 1 ½ teaspoons cinnamon
  • ¼ teaspoon nutmeg
  • 1 teaspoon flour if needed.
  • Topping
  • sugar
  • egg

Instructions
 

  • Wash, peel and remove the core of the apples. Chop into 1/2 inch cubes, set aside.
  • Place a saucepan over medium heat, add butter and leave to melt and start turning brown.
  • Add chopped apples and salt, stir and fry until apple cubes begin to soften.
  • Add white and brown sugar, fry until the apple swells and releases its juices. Stir in the cinnamon and nutmeg and cook for one minute and take off the heat. The apples should be perfectly soft by now. Set aside to be completely cool.
  • Make the dough using my Easy pie dough recipe adding 1 tablespoon of sugar to the dry ingredients. Wrap dough in plastic wrap and place in the fridge for 1 hour or more.
  • Preheat oven to 180 deg C.
  • Crack the egg into a bowl, add 1 teaspoon water or a pinch of salt and beat to mix.
  • Use a rolling pin, roll out the dough into a square of 1/8" thickness. Cut into squares, depending on the size you want.
  • Place pie filling on half of the square making sure to leave as much liquid from the filling as you can behind. Leave some space around the edges.
  • Rub a little egg around the edges.
  • Fold the empty side of the pastry over the filling to cover it and meet the edge on the other side of the square to form a triangle.
  • Crimp the outer edges by hand or with the tines of a fork and place individual pies on the prepared sheet. Snipe holes at the top of the pie or prick with a fork.
  • Brush the pies with the egg wash (egg mixed with 1 teaspoon milk or water) and sprinkle sugar over the top of each hand pie.
  • Bake for 30-40 minutes until golden brown.
  • Drizzle leftover filling liquid over the easy apple hand pie.
  • Transfer the pies to a cooling rack. Allow your apple hand pies to cool for a minimum of 10 minutes before serving.
  • Serve with caramel sauce, chocolate sauce, ice cream, whipped cream, custard etc.

Notes

  • The apples can be sliced not cubed. In this case, the cooking time will have to be considerably reduced.
  • If the apple syrup is beginning to stick to the saucepan, add 1 or 2 teaspoons of water to deglaze the pan and release that delicious syrup.
  • Do not deglaze the saucepan if the apple syrup is burnt.
  • If the dough becomes too soft when rolling and filling, put it back into the refrigerator or freezer to firm up. Reseal the edges with a fork if necessary when you bring it out.
  • To make the apples softer and more broken down, cook a little longer adding about one tablespoon of water.
  • In the absence of brown sugar, use 6 tablespoons of white sugar.
  • Do not overfill the hand pies or the filling will leak out during baking.
  • The pie filling retains a lot of heat after baking so, leave it to cool before eating.
  • The hot juice from the filling will thicken as the pie cools. If you cut it open while it is still very hot, the juices will leak out.
  • Store pie in the freezer and reheat from frozen in the microwave or oven.
Keyword food pocket, food wrap, handpie, Party food, pocket food, small chops