Mini Berry Pies Food

MINI BERRY PIES

Steps:

• Unfold piecrusts on work surface. Using top of a 3-inch aluminum pie tin as a template, add 1/4 inch all around and use a knife to cut out seven rounds. Make a vent in center of each round with a 1/2-inch heart-shape cutter. Set crusts aside.
• Stir together berries, cornstarch, sugar, and lemon juice in a medium bowl. Divide mixture among seven 3-inch aluminum pie tins. Top each with a crust; use fingers to crimp sides so they stop just before edge of tin. Beat egg with 1 teaspoon water. Brush crusts lightly with egg wash; sprinkle with sugar. Freeze pies 20 minutes.
• Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Bake until golden and juices are bubbling, about 25 minutes. Let cool completely on a wire rack.

TRIPLE BERRY MINI PIES

Steps:

• In a small saucepan, combine 1/2 cup blueberries, raspberries, sugar and cornstarch. Cook and stir until mixture starts to thicken, about 5 minutes. Remove from heat; stir in strawberries, butter and remaining 1 cup blueberries. Transfer berry mixture to a bowl; cool to room temperature., Preheat oven to 425°. On a work surface, unroll crusts. Cut 8 circles with a 4-in. biscuit or cookie cutter. Press crusts onto bottom and up sides of ungreased muffin cups. Spoon berry mixture into muffin cups. Bake until filling is bubbly and crust golden brown, 12-15 minutes. Cool in pan 5 minutes; remove to wire racks to cool.

MINI BERRY PIES

Steps:

• Crust:.
• In a food processor (or by hand) mix salt and flour.
• Cut butter into about 1/2 tbs chunks and pulse until the mixture is crumbly and butter is well distributed.
• Add water and pulse until the dough starts to look like dough.
• On your cutting board, lay out one large piece of saran wrap.
• Place dough in center.
• Put another large piece of saran over the dough, flatten slightly, then roll dough out until thin and even.
• Peel back top of saran. Using a 4 inch diameter or so cup, cut circles of dough.
• In a non-stick or prepared muffin tin, lay the dough into the cup and let it gently fall inches Press gently until dough fills tin. Leave some over the lip so you can crimp it to the top.
• Complete with all of the rest of the tins. Cover remaining dough and set aside. Put tins into fridge.
• Filling:.
• Combine sugar, flour, cornstarch, and salt.
• If you're doing two different types of pie (or more), split dry mixture in half.
• With half berries, toss half the dry and then spoon into muffin tins (that you took out of the fridge).
• With other half of berries, do the same and spoon into other muffin tins.
• Get rest of dough and roll out. Cut into strips if you want to be fancy and do lattice tops, or just do circles, or cut circles and then get ultra fancy and cut hearts or stars into the center.
• Place over the top of the filling and crimp to the pie.
• Bake in 400 degree oven for 30-35 minutes.

GRAPE-GLAZED FRESH BERRY MINI PIES

Steps:

• 1. Preheat the oven to 350°F. 2. Unroll the pie crusts. Cut four 5-inch rounds out of each crust for 12 rounds total. Reserve the scraps for another use. Press each round against the bottom and up the sides of a muffin cup in a muffin tin; you should have a 1/2 inch rim of crust. Decoratively crimp the rims around the tops of the muffin cups. 3. Bake for 7 minutes. Use a spoon to gently press the any puffing spots of crust flat. Continue baking until golden brown and set, 5 to 7 minutes longer. Cool completely in the pan on a wire rack. 4. Meanwhile, pour Farmer's Pick 100% Juice Concord Grape into a small saucepan and zest the lime into the juice. Stir in the sugar. Boil until reduced to a syrupy consistency, about 1/3 cup. Cool to room temperature, stirring occasionally. Squeeze 1 teaspoon lime juice into the syrup. Gently toss with the berries until well-coated. 5. Remove the pie crusts from the muffin tin. Fill each cup with berries. Serve immediately.

MINI BLUEBERRY PIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400°F.
• Onto a flat work surface lightly dusted with flour, unfold one sheet of puffed pastry. Lightly dust the surface of the pastry with flour. With a rolling pin, lightly roll until square spreads to the size of a 12" x 12" square. Slice into eight evenly sized squares. Gently tuck squares into eight muffin cups, leaving the four corners of the squares loose at the top.
• In a medium bowl, combine blueberries, flour, sugar, vanilla and water.
• Spoon blueberry mixture into the pastry-lined muffin cups, filling each cup 2/3 full. Loosely fold the corners of the exposed pastry over the berry mixture.
• With a pastry brush, brush melted butter over each pie. Then dust each with sugar.
• Bake for 25 to 30 minutes or until the pie tops are lightly browned and puffed-crisp.
• Cool for 1-2 hours. Wait until the pies are sufficiently cool before removing from the pan. If necessary, use a butter knife to gently work around the outside of each to remove.

MOM'S BABY BERRY PIES

Steps:

• Preheat an oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C). Set out four ramekins measuring 4 inches across the tops.
• Combine the sugar, cornstarch, salt, and 1 1/4 teaspoons cinnamon. Place the mixed berries in a bowl. Sprinkle the mixture over the berries and toss gently to coat. Sprinkle lemon juice over the berries.
• Cut out pie tops from the prepared crust by turning a ramekin upside down on the crust. Cut out four 4-inch circles of dough using the ramekins as a guide.
• Pour 1 cup of berry mixture into each ramekin, making sure to scoop up plenty of the sugar and spices with it. Reserve the remaining berry mixture.
• Dot each filled ramekin with butter, and top with the pie crusts. Cut four slits in each crust. Place the ramekins on a baking sheet.
• Bake in the preheated oven until the crust is golden brown and the filling is bubbly, about 30 minutes.
• Mix the remaining 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon into the reserved berry mixture. Microwave for 1 minute to make a berry sauce; stir. Serve the pies with the berry sauce.