Mini Cupcake Tin Pies Food

MINI PIES IN A CUPCAKE TIN

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease 12 muffin cups with cooking spray.
• Roll out a single pie crust onto a flat surface. Using a large cookie cutter or any circular lid, cut out a 4-inch circle of dough. Press each dough circle into the bottom of a muffin tin cup, leaving a tiny rim of dough sticking out at the top. Repeat with remaining dough to fill all 12 muffin cups.
• Fill each cup until nearly full, about 1/4 cup, with pie filling.
• Use the remaining dough to create a top crust to cover each pie. To make a lattice crust, use a knife or pizza cutter to cut out thin strips of dough, then lace together to form a lattice. To make a standard crust, cut out a circle of dough just large enough to cover the top of the bottom crust. Cut a few small slits into the crust. Then using your fingers, gently press the top crust onto the bottom crust until they stick together and no gaps remain.
• Use a pastry brush to brush the tops of each pie with the whisked egg. Then bake 30 to 40 minutes, or until the crust is lightly golden and the filling begins to bubble.
• Remove from the oven and let cool for at least 15 minutes. Then very carefully with a knife, loosen the edges of each pie and gently lift out from the muffin tin. Serve immediately or cover and refrigerate.

MIXED MINI PIES

Steps:

• For the pie crusts: Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F. Coat a 12-cup muffin pan with baking spray.
• Unroll the pie crusts on a clean surface. Cut 6 circles from each crust (12 total) with a 3 1/2-inch plain-edged round cutter. Press a circle of dough into each of the 12 cups of the muffin pan, lightly pressing the dough up the sides (they will not reach the tops of the cups). These will be your pie crusts.
• Poke the bottom of 4 of the pie crusts with a fork and place cupcake liners into the poked crust cups only. Fill each liner with 2 tablespoons uncooked rice. Refrigerate the pan while you prepare the fillings.
• For the crumble topping: Mix together the flour, oats and brown sugar in a small bowl. Stir in the melted butter until well combined. Set aside until ready to use.
• For the fillings: Begin filling the dough cups. (The 4 cups with the cupcake liners filled with uncooked rice will remain that way during the bake and will be filled after the bake.) Mix together the cream cheese, powdered sugar, vanilla and salt in a small bowl until well combined. Divide the cream cheese mixture between 2 of the empty dough cups. Divide the cherry pie filling between 2 of the remaining empty dough cups. Divide the blueberry pie filling between 2 of the remaining empty dough cups. Divide the grape jam between the remaining 2 empty dough cups.
• Mix half of the crumble topping with the lemon zest in a bowl. Divide the mixture over the top of the 2 pie dough cups filled with the blueberry pie filling to make blueberry lemon crumble pies. Mix the remaining crumble topping with the crushed peanuts in a bowl. Divide the mixture over the top of the 2 pie dough cups filled with the grape jam.
• Bake the pies: Transfer the pan to the oven and bake until the crumbs on the 4 crumb-topped pies are golden, about 15 minutes. Allow to cool completely.
• Finish the pies: Remove the cupcake liners filled with rice from the 4 baked and unfilled crusts.
• For the strawberry cream pies: Toss the diced strawberries with the granulated sugar and a splash of vanilla in a small bowl. Divide the mixture between the 2 pies filled with the cream cheese mixture. Drizzle the pies with the caramel sauce.
• For the cherry pies: Divide the toasted almonds over the 2 pies filled with the cherry filling. Microwave the white chocolate and coconut oil together in a microwave-safe bowl for 15 seconds or until warm. Stir well, then drizzle evenly over the 2 pies. Top the center of each pie with a bit of whipped cream.
• For the PB and J pies: Microwave the peanut butter and coconut oil together in a microwave-safe bowl for 15 seconds or until warm. Stir well, then drizzle evenly over the 2 pies filled with the grape jam and peanut-crumble topping.
• For the lemon raspberry pies: Divide the lemon curd between 2 of the empty baked pie crusts. Top each pie with 3 raspberries. Dust each pie with a bit of powdered sugar and finish with a mint leaf.
• For the s'mores pies: Divide the hazelnut spread between the last 2 empty baked pie crusts. Mix the graham cracker crumbs and melted butter together in a small bowl. Sprinkle half of the mixture over each pie. Cut the marshmallow in half crosswise. Top each pie with one half of the marshmallow. Using a kitchen blowtorch (brulee torch), toast each piece of marshmallow to the desired level of toasted-ness.
• Transfer the pies to a cake stand or platter and enjoy!

MINI APPLE PIES (SO EASY, NOT MUCH HASSLE!)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Get muffin pan out. No need to grease it.
• In food processor blend flour, salt and butter until it looks like little peas.
• Add in water and blend just until it looks like it's sticking.
• Take out and combine it by hand until well blended.
• Roll out on lightly floured surface until about 1/4 inch thick.
• Cut 12, 4 inch circles with cup or bowl.(You will need to roll out twice).
• Note: you can use the rest of the crust for anything you may want to do on top of the pies.
• Press each circle in muffin tins until all the way up each side, to form little bowls.
• Mix by hand all filling ingredients and spoon into muffin bowls.
• Cut up butter into 12 little pieces and place one piece on each pie.
• You can decorate them anyway you like with extra crust, or just leave plain.
• Bake at 425 degrees for 16-18 minutes. (Until crust is light brown and apples are bubbling).
• When cool, just loosen with a spoon and they'll come right out!

MINI CUPCAKE TIN PIES

Steps:

• Spray your muffin tin with cooking spray and preheat your oven to 350 degrees F.
• Roll out a single pie crust and cut out 4-inch circles of dough with a cookie cutter or lid. .
• Place one dough circle in the bottom of each muffin tin cup. .
• Fill each to the top with the pie filling of your choice, about 1/4 cup. .
• Use the remaining dough to top each with a design. You can cut out leaves and other fall shapes with a cookie cutter, or top them with a simple lattice design.
• Use a pastry brush to dab a little bit of whisked egg on the top of each and bake 30-40 minutes until the filling starts to bubble and the crust is golden. .
• Remove from the oven and let cool for at least 15 minutes before removing with the help of a butter knife.

MINI DUTCH APPLE PIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400.
• Using a cupcake tin, place aluminum foil strips into each cupcake cup so that the ends are sticking out (this will help for pulling pies out of pan). Spray with baking spray.
• Roll out cold pie dough. Using '1 cup' size measuring cup, cut out 24 circles.
• Press dough circles into cup.
• In a large bowl mix diced apples and juice of 1/2 lemon. Add sugars, flour, spices, and apple butter.
• In another bowl, with a pastry blender if a fork, mix flour, both sugars and butter until coarsely crumbled.
• Fill each pie dough with apples to top. Sprinkle topping evenly over apples.
• Bake for 30-35 minutes or until. Let cool completely before serving for pie to set.