06/06/2018
Little Blueberry Apple Pies
There's a lotta love in these little home made pies!
Makes:
12
Ingredients
- 1 1/3 cups plain flour
- 100g cold butter, cubed
- 1 egg, lightly beaten
- 1/4 cup caster sugar
- 400g canned pie apple
- 200g canned blueberries, drained
- juice of 1 lemon
- 2 tablespoons cornflour
- 1 egg, lightly beaten, extra
- sugar, for sprinkling
- double cream, for serving
Method
To make the pastry, blend flour and butter together in a food processor until fine crumbs form. Combine egg and caster sugar and add to flour, while blending, until mixture just forms a ball. Do not overmix. Roll out to 2mm thickness on a floured surface and cut into circles 11cm wide, re-rolling pastry as necessary, and use to line 12 muffin pans. Trim neatly and reserve all the pastry trimmings for decorating. Prick pastry with a fork, and brush with extra beaten egg. Bake at 200°C for 5 minutes and remove from oven. Combine pie apple, blueberries, lemon juice and cornflour together and spoon into pastry shells. Thinly roll out reserved pastry, cut into strips using a fluted pastry wheel and use to decorate the pies in a lattice pattern. Brush with egg and sprinkle with sugar. Bake at 200°C for 10 minutes until golden brown. Run a knife around the edges and allow the pies to stand for 5 minutes before carefully turning out to cool on a wire rack. Serve with double cream.
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