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Apple Pie Recipe-Easy Eggless Mini Apple Pie-Pie Dough Recipe

December 27, 2014 by PadhuSankar 16 Comments

Apple pie is a classic dessert with delicious apple filling. It is said to be very popular in North America. It is served as such or with a scoop of ice cream or softly whipped cream or a slice of cheddar cheese. It can also be had as a tea time treat. You need lot of patience to make pastry but the end result is worth it. The apple pie was crispy, flaky and delicious with juicy apple filling flavored with cinnamon and nutmeg. Today we will learn how to make Easy Mini Eggless Apple Pie following this easy recipe with step wise pictures.

Apple Pie Recipe

Apple Pie Recipe-Eggless Mini Apple Pie Recipe


Mini Apple Pie Recipe-Eggless Apple Pie Recipe

 Prep Time : 30 mins

 Cook Time : 30 mins 
 Yields: 6 Mini Apple Pies
 Recipe Category: Dessert
 Recipe Cuisine: International
 Author: Padhu Sankar
 Recipe Source: knitandbake.com

   Ingredients needed

   Ingredients for the Dough

   All Purpose flour/Maida – 1 cup sifted
   Unsalted butter (cold and cubed) – 90 grams
   Ice water – 2-3 tablespoons
   Salt – 1/4 tsp
   Sugar – 1 tsp

   Ingredients for the Filling

   Apples – 2 1/2 (Use any firm textured apple)
   Granulated white sugar – 1/4 cup
   Brown Sugar – 1/4 cup
   Cinnamon powder – 1 tsp
   Nutmeg powder – 1/2 tsp
   Salt – a pinch
   All purpose flour -1 tbsp
   Butter – 1 tsp

Making the dough

Chill the bowl in which you are going to prepare the pie crust. Cut butter into cubes and put it in the freezer for half an hour.

In a bowl, add all purpose flour, salt and sugar.

adding salt and sugar to all purpose flour

Mix until well combined.

mixing using a wire whisk

Add chilled butter cubes to the flour. Using just your finger tips, rub or squash each cube of butter into the flour. Take a butter cube and a little flour and squash it. Repeat the same until all the butter is broken into fine pieces and the mixture resembles breadcrumbs. Use your finger tips only as it is the coldest part of your hands and will avoid melting the butter.

You can use a food processor to make your job easier. If using a food processor, place the flour, butter and process, using the pulse button, for 10-15 seconds until the mixture is crumbly or resembles breadcrumbs.

how to make pie dough

how to prepare pie dough

Make a well in the center, add 1 tbsp of ice cold water. Use your hand as a whisk (picture below) and mix the flour. Add another tbsp of cold water and mix well. Stop adding water if the dough clumps together. The dough should just hold together when clumped. Add little more ice water only if the dough does not clump together. For me, it required around 2 1/2 tbsp of cold water.

preparing basic pie dough

Dust the surface with a little flour and gently gather and press the dough as shown below. Knead the dough gently to make it smooth. Do not overwork on it.

how to make basic pie dough

Divide the dough into two (3/4 and 1/4), flatten it in the shape of a disc, wrap it in a cling film and refrigerate it for 30-60 minutes.

This is the Basic pie dough and can be used to make a variety of pies.

basic Pie Dough

Making the Apple Filling

Mini Apple Pie

Peel the apples, cut, discard the seeds and chop it into cubes. Add 1/2 tsp of lemon juice and mix well to prevent the apples from getting discolored.

Add sugar, brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, salt, flour to the chopped apples and mix until well combined. I used 1/2 cup of white sugar as I did not have brown sugar that day.

adding ground cinnamon to chopped apples

adding sugar

adding all purpose flour to apples for making apple pie

Let it sit for 15 minutes.

After 15 minutes, you will find that the apples would have oozed out a lot of juice.

Strain and collect the juice in a cup. Heat a tsp of butter and add the juice you collected from the apples.

Stir on medium flame until it thickens and becomes lightly caramelized.

preparation for apple filling

Add it to the apple and mix it well. Our apple mixture is ready.

apple filling for apple pie

Grease a muffin pan or cupcake pan so that it is well coated with butter. This helps to remove the mini apple pies easily after baking.

preparation for mini apple pie

Take 3/4 of the dough from the refrigerator. Dust the surface and the rolling pin with flour. Using the rolling pin, roll out the pastry. Initially if the outside of the dough cracks, set it with your hands as shown below.

preparing pie dough

Turn it now and then and roll it to ensure even thickness and to prevent sticking. Roll it until it is fairly thin. Roll it back on the rolling pin and dust off excess flour with a pastry brush as shown in the picture below.

rolling pie dough

Using a cup larger than the size of the cupcake/muffin mould, cut out circles from the dough.

Place it in the muffin cup/mould and press it gently with your finger so that it sits well inside the cup. Remove any excess dough and tuck the edges neatly. Repeat it for all the 6 muffin cups.

how to prepare mini apple pie

Fill the apple mixture till the top.

filling apples for apple pie

Take the other remaining 1/4 of the dough from the refrigerator and roll it out thinly.

Cut rectangular strips, the size (diameter) of your cupcake/muffin cups. Use the strips to create a weave like pattern to cover the apple mixture. This weave like pattern is called Lattice top.

preparing lattice top for mini apple pie

Tuck it neatly with the the bottom crust as show below. You can lightly moisten the edges of the bottom crust with water to make it stick well. Instead of the weaved pattern, you can also cover the pie with a smaller circle with a cross slit as shown in the picture below (The slit is for the steam to escape).

apple filling for apple pie

Repeat the same process for the remaining muffin cups. All the six muffin cups are completed in the picture below. I made 3 weaved patterns and 3 cross slit patterns.

You can brush the top with milk or egg wash (1 egg beaten with 1 tsp water/milk) if desired. Dust the top with little sugar if desired.

mini apple pie recipe

Pre-heat the oven at 180 degree C for 15 minutes while starting to prepare the lattice top itself. Place the muffin tray in the middle rack and bake at 180 degree C for 30-35 minutes or until the crust is light brown. Keep a watch after 20 minutes.

how to make mini apple pie

Once you remove the muffin pan from the oven, leave it to cool for 10-15 mins.

When cool, you can easily loosen it from the muffin cup with a toothpick and they will come right out.

Serve as such or with a scoop of vanilla ice cream or a dollop of softly whipped cream.

Storage


You can store baked apple pies in airtight container at room temperature for up to two days and for a few more days when refrigerated.

The pie dough can be freezed for about a month. Before using defrost the dough in the refrigerator.

Resources

You can watch these videos by Gordon Ramsay on how to make and roll shortcrust pastry here and here.

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Comments

  1. Devi Ramachandran

    December 28, 2014 at 3:58 am

    Hello Padhu

    I have been following your blog for a very long time and you r doing really awesome.i am newly wedded and currently stay outside india and every day as soon as i wake up first thing this is to check up for any updated new posts 🙂 i love cooking and i refer your recipe even before calling up mom or sis for asking doubts 🙂

    Your traditional dishes,healthy recipes(Including notes about special items recently about the chia seeds are so informative),baking ideas and all stuffs are simply superb

    I have tried many of your recipes and all have come out perfect so far including your multi-grain porridge which i managed to grind here with my little blender 🙂 thanks a lot to u..

    This is yet another wonderful post with perfect sequential pictures.kudos for a great job. Will be trying this sometime soon

    Do u have any idea of ragi buns (sweet of savory fillings) baked in oven? please share your thoughts

    Regards
    Devi

    Reply
  2. Uma Shankar

    December 28, 2014 at 11:21 am

    Great effort it has come out perfect!

    Reply
  3. Coral crue

    December 28, 2014 at 12:38 pm

    i would love me some pie. this looks great 🙂

    Reply
  4. esther

    December 30, 2014 at 7:32 am

    Hats off 2 ur effort. Apple pie is looking awesome.

    Reply
  5. Sumathy

    June 19, 2016 at 5:20 am

    Stumbled onto this recipe when I was looking for eggless small pies! Recipe is very well explained and the pies came out well though its my very first attempt at pie. Not too happy with the shell but thats nothing to do with the recipe, my freezer settings went offrange I guess. Thanks a lot and will try more of your other recipes.

    Reply
  6. Renuka Premkumar

    July 22, 2016 at 7:31 am

    Dear Padhu…Your site is amazing! I tried apple pie and came out very well with very good taste and juicy texture. I did not add nutmeg powder as I was not having it. I am so happy that now I got a very good site to refer to while making veg foods and your explanations are so clear to never flop. I accidentally came across your site while googling for apple pie recepies. Thanks a lot. Really appreciate your determination.
    Renuka

    Reply
  7. Unknown

    August 17, 2016 at 8:19 am

    Hi…Thanks for wonderful receipe, I have a question though. In some apple pie receipe I read they half bake the bottom layer first, add the apple pie filling in to it and then add top layer and bake it again. So half baking the lower layer is important? Also if I plan to make single apple pie instead of these mini veriety then does it require any change in receipe? Thanks

    Reply
    • Padhu Sankar

      August 19, 2016 at 9:28 am

      Thank you for liking the recipe. If you want to make a single apple pies, you do not have to change the recipe. Regarding half baking the bottom layer, I have no idea.

      Reply
  8. Unknown

    November 15, 2016 at 3:51 am

    Great and easy Recipe.. Can't wait to try. Please advice if the baking time has to be adjusted for Microwave convection oven. If yes, then by how much. Regards

    Reply
    • Padhu Sankar

      November 16, 2016 at 7:49 am

      I am not sure of the timing in Microwave as I have not tried it.Refer the manual to get some idea.

      Reply
  9. Unknown

    September 7, 2018 at 4:13 pm

    I just made this.. It turned out well but was very sweet. Next time I will use less sugar but otherwise it was sooo yummy.

    Reply
  10. rn1029

    May 3, 2019 at 4:50 pm

    Can we make them using the pressure cooker(using salt)

    Reply
  11. Megha

    November 22, 2019 at 3:54 pm

    I love your recipes. I am going to try this one for sure. Thanks

    Reply
  12. Anupam

    January 24, 2020 at 7:39 am

    Great recipe. Will surely try myself.

    Reply
  13. Ritu Sharma

    May 16, 2020 at 4:49 pm

    Hi….I tried this recipe…it came out perfect, but I was not able to unmould it…want some tip on this.Thanks.

    Reply
  14. Nidhi Gupta

    October 24, 2022 at 7:28 am

    One cup maida and 90 gms butter is not working … very very difficult to make and mould

    Reply

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