Tasty Planner - Recipe - Baked 'fried' Apple Pies by From me to you

Instructions

For the Dough:
Cut cold butter into small pieces and then return to the refrigerator while preparing the dry ingredients. Mix all of the dry ingredients and then add the butter. I use my hands but you can also use a food processor or pastry cutter to mix butter into the flour. When ready there should be pea size pieces of butter throughout the mixture. Add 1/4 cup of very cold water and the lemon juice to the flour and butter mixture mixing well. Do all of this quickly and don’t over mix, you want the butter to stay cold. When all of the ingredients are mixed in it should form a ball and does not crumble apart. If it crumbles easily add more water. Form dough into a ball and cover in plastic wrap and place in the refrigerator for about 1 hour while you make the filling.

For the filling:
Cook all filling ingredients in a large saucepan over medium heat 5 minutes; reduce heat to medium-low, and cook, stirring occasionally, 15 minutes or until apples are tender. Stir in about a tablespoon of flour toward the end of cooking time to thicken the sauce. It needs to cool completely so in the mean time start rolling out your mini-pie crusts.

Making the pies:
Take the dough out of the fridge and pull apart about a palm size amount of dough and roll it in your hands to form a ball (should be about 2inches in diameter). On a floured surface and with a floured rolling pin begin to roll the dough into a circle dusting with more flour if it sticks to the rolling pin. You want the final size circle to be about 7 to 8 inches in diameter. Here I cut designs into one side of my pies, you may choose to omit this step. Take your cooled filling mixture and put about 1/4 a cup of filling into the center of the dough circle. Take your egg wash and brush around the entire edge, this will help seal the pie. Fold over 1/2 and press edges together. Then take a fork and press around the edge to give it a decorative feel (I can still remember watching my grandma doing this in her kitchen). Put on a baking sheet sprayed with non-stick cooking spray and brush the tops with the egg wash and take a pinch of raw sugar and sprinkle on top. I like to cut designs into my pies when they are rolled out but if you choose not to here is where you would pierce the top of the pies with a fork to create vents. Place in a 375 degree oven for about 20mins or until golden brown.

Great to eat while hot with some vanilla ice cream or packed away as a snack at work!