Recipe Tasty Taisen&#39;s Mini Fruit Pies

Recipe Tasty Taisen's Mini Fruit Pies

Taisen's Mini Fruit Pies. Roll out a single pie crust onto a flat surface. Mix the chopped fruit of your choice (see below) with sugar, flour and cinnamon. If using a square pan, use a square biscuit or cookie cutter to cut the dough to fit the pan.

These mini fruit pies are delicious and easy to make. The crust is golden, crispy and perfectly flaky. Add a sprinkle of coarse sea salt on top and you'll swear It's hard to believe that these mini fruit pies are gluten-free and dairy-free. You can have Taisen's Mini Fruit Pies using 9 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Taisen's Mini Fruit Pies

You need of of pre made pie crusts or you can make your own.
Prepare of of any variety and flavor fruit ( apple, cherry, blueberry, strawberry, blackberry , etc ) or you can make fresh.
You need of flour for rolling out dough ( maybe less as I didn't measure it , just put enough I needed to make sure it didn't stick to anything ).
You need of brown sugar if desired for apple filling ( u can add more or less ).
You need of cinnamon if desired for apple filling ( more or less depending on your preferences ).
You need of sugar for blueberry and cherry filling if desired ( again more or less depending on preferences ).
It’s of egg for egg wash.
You need of water for egg wash.
It’s of circle shape or you can free hand it with a knife. I used a top of a frosting container.

Perfect size for a late day snack or quick breakfast. We are totally, totally, totally loving summertime right now. Using a Pillsbury refrigerated pie crust really makes things easy. The Mini Fruit Pies recipe out of our category Paté!

Taisen's Mini Fruit Pies instructions

If your using pre made pie crust, set it out at room temperature for 10 to 15 minutes. Cover your workspace with some flour. Roll out one of the pie crusts. I made mine a bit bigger to get more out of it..
Using a round cookie cutter, other object round or free hand cut circles out of the dough. If you don't cut all the way through, take a knife and carefully finish it..
Spray your cupcake tin with cooking spray so they don't stick or you can use oil and flour..
Pre heat oven to 350.
Make your egg wash with 1 egg and water. Mix well.
Place the circles in the cupcake pan. Press firmly but don't pack it in to hard..
In a bowl, add the fruit filling of your choice and any extra cinnamon or sugar or anything else you want. Mix well. Add this into the cups, but don't over fill. As you can see, I over filled but I liked them just fine !.
Now, taking the extra dough from the first pie crust, put it back into a ball shape, knead it and re roll it out. Taking a knife, cut strips to make lattice or you can do a full covering pie crust or even use different shaped cookie cutters for fun ! You will need to use some of the 2 nd pie crust for this as well..
Make your lattice or whichever top you choose. If using the strips like I did, trim excess ends when finished placing them.
Using a brush , coat each top with the egg wash , or if your like me and don't have one use your finger as long as it's clean !.
Put these in the oven uncovered for 30 minutes or until they are golden brown..
Serve later or right away. Enjoy !.

Combine dried fruit, candied fruit, orange and lemon zest, apples and almonds. The top countries of supplier is China, from which the percentage. I had leftover pie filling from the campfire pies we made last weekend so I decided to do this with them. So good and super easy, I just drop them in the fry daddy a few at a time and drain on paper towels! Remember when McDonalds used to fry their pies???