Pretty apple shaped apple cinnamon hand pies -3 tips to incorporate butter into the flour without having a food processor.

Firstly for me is the dough as important as the filling. The pie dough has to be pliable and not too try because otherwise it’s so difficult to shape it. Secondly the taste needs to be subtly sweet and crisp and flaky. Otherwise the pie dough recipe is just no good. Here are 3 ways how you can incorporate your butter in to the flour without a food processor.

• If you have a pastry cutter just cut the cold butter into the flour until it looks like fine ground grain.
• Another great way to mix the butter into the flour ist to put the bowl with the flour mixture into your stand kitchen mixer with the whisk attached add the butter cubes and start to whisk slowly until everything looks like a fine pea sized mess.
• The messiest way to do this ist to pinch, rub, squeeze and crush the flour with the butter with your fingertips together until small pea sized lumps form . This will take you about 10 minutes.

apple cinnamon hand pies, apple hand pies recipe, apple dessert, apple recipe, apple pie, apple cake , pie dough, fall dessert, fall recipe, pie recipe

How to shape those apple cinnamon hand pies .

• First of all I cut the pie dough into 2 parts, one larger and one smaller part.
• Now I’m going to roll out both parts with a pin until 2mm (1/8inch) thick. Before rolling and shaping the larger disk for the last time use a embossed rolling pin and roll it carefully with enough pressure to see the pattern over it.
• After that I’m going to start out with the small dough disk and cut out 8 circles that are 2cm larger in diameter than the diameter of the apple halves.
• I’m cutting out 8 circles on the larger disk that are 4 cm larger in diameter than the apple.

Hold on we are almost done!

• Now take a small dough circle smear it with the cinnamon sugar butter but leaving out 1 cm.
• Place the hasselback cut apple half on the smeared dough circle brush cinnamon butter in the apple .
• Moisten the clean dough border with water.
• Finally pull the larger dough circle onto the apple and pinch the dough edges together.
• I trim the edges with a pastry wheel to make it look more pretty and even .
• Now I’m shaping the leaves , stems and blossom end and place them carefully onto the apple shaped hand pies. Moisten the decorating parts a little bit before sticking the m to the hand pies.
• Repeat this with all the other apple halves.
• When everything is done place the handles into the fridge for 30 minutes. The decoration and patterns shaped into the dough need to be cold to stay.
• Tadaa ! Thats it.

Here is a little video for you on how to make these hand pies.

apple cinnamon hand pies, apple hand pies recipe, apple dessert, apple recipe, apple pie, apple cake , pie dough, fall dessert, fall recipe, pie recipe

Some thoughts and advices .

• These hand pies are best enjoyed with some creamy vanilla ice cream or half beaten lightly sweetened cream (add a sip of rum and vanilla sugar to the cream and make it a more adult thing ).
• If you don’t like the peel on the apples, no problem. Just peel the apples before you half, core and hasselback them.
• Before I brush the cinnamon butter on the smaller dough disk I sprinkle some flour over it. This way the juices of the apple and the butter thicken a little bit while baking. So good.
• You can freeze the baked apple hand pies for later. Just wrap them in cling film and put them into the freezer for up to 2 months. When thawed just put them for 10 minutes into the oven at 180C fan(360F) to crisp up.

I hope you make this delicious fall recipe really soon because I promise you it won’t be the last time you’ll make it.

Lastly if you make these pretty apple shaped cinnamon apple hand pies, be sure to leave a comment and/or give this recipe a rating! Above all, I love to hear from yo guys and always do my best to respond to each and every comment. And of course, if you do make this recipe, don’t forget to tag us on Instagram! Looking through the photos of recipes you all have made is my favorite .

Cinnamon hugs Nina

If you love apples here are some more apple recipes for you:

• Christmassy sourdough baked apple cake
• Apple galette with honey whiskey frangipane
• Antonias favorite apple pie
• Apple cinnamon crumble muffin
• Fancy pork tenderloin in puff pastry with caramelized apples and onions
• Autumnly apple cider and cheese soup with pretzel chips

apple cinnamon hand pies, apple hand pies recipe, apple dessert, apple recipe, apple pie, apple cake , pie dough, fall dessert, fall recipe, pie recipe

apple cinnamon hand pies, apple hand pies recipe, apple dessert, apple recipe, apple pie, apple cake , pie dough, fall dessert, fall recipe, pie recipe

Pretty Cinnamon Apple Hand Pies

4 from 11 votes

Recipe by Nina Course: brunch, DessertCuisine: American, austrian

Servings

8

hand pies

Prep time

30

minutes

Cooking time

45

minutes

Calorieskcal

Total time

2

hours 

15

minutes

We can't celebrate fall without a show stopper apple recipe. This is an easy recipe for beautiful apple shaped cinnamon apple hand pies . They are easy to make and go so well with a scoop of creamy vanilla ice cream.

Cook Mode

Keep the screen of your device on

Ingredients

• Dough

• 220 g 220 unsalted butter cut into small cubes

• 440 g 440 flour

• 1 tsp 1 salt

• 2 2 eggs large

• cold water if needed

• 2 tbsp 2 sugar

• Filling

• 4 4 apples small to medium sized, cut in half, cored

• 150 g 150 butter room temperature

• 150 g 150 brown sugar

• 1 tbsp 1 cinnamon

• 1/4 tsp 1/4 cardamom optional

• 1/4 tsp 1/4 cloves grounded, optional

• Egg wash

• 1 1 egg

• 2 tbsp 2 milk

Directions

• Dough
• In a medium sized bowl mix together flour, salt and sugar.
• Add the cold butter cubes and incoporate them into the flour mixture with a pastry cutter, food processor or, in rubbing the flour mixture into the butter until everything is very fine in size.
• Add the eggs and knead the dough until everything comes together to pliable dough. Don't knead the dough to long just let it come together.
• Attention: if the dough seems to dry and tense add some water. 1tbsp at the time. Don't add to much.
• Wrap the dough into plastic wrap (cling film) and put it into the fridge for one hour.
• Filling
• Mix together butter, sugar and the spices. Either with a spoon or an electric mixer.
• Now take the halved and cored apples and slice every half length wise about every 2mm(1/8 inch) . But don't cut it the whole way trough. The apple half should stay intact and not cut apart. It's like making hasselback apples instead of hasselback potatoes
• Put everything together
• Take the pie dough out of the fridge, cut it in half and roll every half out about 0,5cm (1/4 inch) thick.
• Optional: Take one rolled out pie halve and roll over it with an embossed rolling pin.
• Now cut out 8 circles that are about 2cm larger in diameter than your apple half and 8 circles that are 4cm in diameter large than your apple halves.
• Take the smaller dough circles and coat them with the cinnamon sugar butter filling, but leave out the1 cm of the border.

  • 

• Place the apple halves onto the smeared dough circles and coat the rest of the apple with the cinnamon butter.

  • 

• Now moisten the edges of the dough circles and put the larger circles on top. Pinch the edges together. Now repeat that process with all the other apple halves.

  • 

• With the rest of the dough form leaves and stems and decorate the apple shaped hand pies with them.

  • 

• Put the hand pies back into the fridge for 30 minutes.
• Preheat the oven to 180C (350F) fan.
• Place the hand pies on a baking sheet covered with a baking paper, brush them with egg wash (egg and 2 tbsp milk mixed together)and bake for 45-60 minutes.
• Leave them to cool on a rack.
• These are best enjoyed still warm, with a sprinkle of powdered sugar and a scoop of ice cream.

Did you make this recipe?

Tag @twosisterslivinglife on Instagram and hashtag it with

Like this recipe?

Follow @twosissterslivinglife on Pinterest

Give us a follow!

Follow us on Facebook

The post Pretty apple shaped apple cinnamon hand pies appeared first on Two Sisters Living Life.

When you are baking with sourdough your are bound to have some discard . But please don’t throw it way. There are so many delicious things you can make with that discarded sourdough starter like for example my baked cinnamon apples cake.

baked apples, apple cake recipes, sourdough starter discard recipes, dessert ideas, apple cinnamon cake. what to do with sourdough discard, winter cake, easy

What I like the most about this sourdough baked cinnamon apples cake

• It’s a great use for your sourdough discard. Nothing is better and more satisfying than cutting down on food waste
• It’s full of wintery warming flavors because of that delicious mix of spices. The most important spice in my recipe is cinnamon of course. Cloves, cardamom and nutmeg add some more warmth and depth to the cake. But if you lack one of these spices just leave it out.
• The whole apples I’m using in this cake recipe add that unique sweet baked apples taste and get well outbalanced by the slight tartness of the sourdough and the lingonberries
• It’s an easy recipe made with mostly pantry stables .
• If you aren’t into sourdough baking but still want to bake that cake that’s no problem at all. Instead of the 200g sourdough discard use 100g water, 100g flour and 1/2 tsp baking powder (all purpose, spelt flour, bread flour…whatever you have at home)

What is sourdough discard

For everybody who isn’t fluently navigating in the world of sourdough here some infos about sourdough.

Sourdough is a natural leavened dough, which means it doesn’t use commercial yeast to rise. Instead it uses a “starter”.

A starter is a fermented flour and water mixture that contains wild yeast and good bacteria to rise. This is also produces the tangy flavour and slightly chewy texture you’ll find in sourdough.

Wild yeast has more flavour than commercial yeast, and is natural in the sense that it doesn’t contain any additives.

To keep your sourdough starter healthy and alive you have to feed it regularly . Feeding your starter: you mix together water and flour and add only a little amount of the old starter to the mixture which leaves you with some discard. Instead of throwing that sourdough discard away I’m collecting it in a huge jar and use it for a lot of other delicious recipes.

If you want to start building your own starter and dive in into the world of sourdough here is a link to my favorite sourdough website: The perfect loaf .

baked apples, apple cake recipes, sourdough starter discard recipes, dessert ideas, apple cinnamon cake. what to do with sourdough discard, winter cake, easy

Sourdough baked cinnamon apples cake – The recipe

First there is the measuring of ingredients and making everything ready for making the cake batter

1. First I Start with pouring 200g sourdough discard into a small container . I’m whisking some air into the batter with a spoon, cover the container loosely with plastic wrap and let it come to room temperature for about 1 hour.
2. After that one hour I’m preheating the oven to 170°C or 350°F air circulation.
3. Then I’m going to butter the round tart form (28cm standard) and sprinkle it out with the sugar.
4. I measure the flour and spices and mix them together in a medium bowl.
5. I prepare the cinnamon sugar topping and mix it with the sliced almond .
6. The apples need to get prepared too by firstly cutting off about 2cm of the top, coring it and hollowing it out a little .
7. Lastly the eggs need to get separated into egg whites and egg yolks.

baked apples, apple cake recipes, sourdough starter discard recipes, dessert ideas, apple cinnamon cake. what to do with sourdough discard, winter cake, easy

The cake batter

1. Firstly I’m going to beat the egg whites with the 50g white sugar until stiff and glossy. This will take about 8-10 minutes.
2. Secondly in a bowl of my stand mixer using your whisk attachment, I’m mixing together the sourdough discard with the powdered sugar, orange juice and zest, vegetable oil, softened butter and egg yolks.
3. This is an important step. Folding in the beaten egg whites and the flour mixture. Alternately I’m going to fold in with a rubber spatula the egg whites and flour mixture in 4 steps. This needs to be done carefully. The air of the egg whites shouldn’t be beaten out. If there are any egg white lumps left that’s totally fine.

Almost there. promised.

1. Finally I’m pouring half of the cake batter into that round tart form and arrange the apples in a circle on top of the batter. I’m pushing the apples halfway into the batter.
2. The hollowed out apples get filled almost to the edge with the cake batter and topped wit 1 teaspoon of lingonberry or cranberry jam. . Whatever you have at hand. Other jams with a little tardiness work great too. Put the apple tops back on.
3. The rest of the batter gets poured into the tart form carefully . Level the batter a little bit out with a rubber spatula or a spoon if necessary .
4. Lastly I’m sprinkling the cinnamon sugar and sliced almonds on top.
5. The cake gets baked for about 50 minutes or until a wooden skewer comes out clean when inserted in the middle of the cake.

baked apples, apple cake recipes, sourdough starter discard recipes, dessert ideas, apple cinnamon cake. what to do with sourdough discard, winter cake, easy

In the end..

I love to serve that cake still slightly warm with some sprinkled powdered sugar and some beaten heavy cream but of course a scoop of vanilla ice cream would be a perfect addition too ?.

This is such a beautiful winter recipe. All those delicious flavors from the baked apples, lingonberries and spices create a beautiful warming apple cake recipe. The taste often remembers me of my childhood, when we enjoyed baked apples with lots of cinnamon sugar in front of the open fire watching a Christmas movie all together.

I hope you will enjoy my sourdough baked cinnamon apples cake as much as my family and I did. If you make that recipe please say “Hi” and let me know. What I love the most is hearing from you.

Warm sugary cinnamon hugs Nina

Are you looking for more cake recipes? Here are some more winter cake recipes for you?:

• Fudgy chocolate orange bundt cake
• Gluten free caramelized fig upside down cake
• Antonia’s favorite apple cake
• White chocolate cheesecake with speculoos cookie base and cranberry compote
• Rudolph reindeer gingerbread cupcakes with a delicious mulled wine cherry filling

Sourdough Baked lingonberry apple cake – easy sourdough discard recipe

0 from 0 votes

Recipe by Nina Course: brunch, DessertCuisine: austrian

Servings

8

Prep time

20

minutes

Cooking time

50

minutes

Calories

568

kcal

Total time

2

hours 

10

minutes

This is flavorful easy recipe for a baked apple cinnamon cake made with sourdough discard and whole apples. The apples are filled with cake batter and lingonberry jam. Best fall/ Winter cake recipe ever.

Cook Mode

Keep the screen of your device on

Ingredients

• 6 medium 6 apples Cut off 1cm of the top. Core and hole out the apples a little . Dont throw away the tops.

• 200 g 200 sourdough discard needs to be taken out of the fridge and come to room temperature 1 hour in advance.

• 30 g 30 butter for the tart form

• 2 tbsp 2 sugar for the tart form

• 4 large 4 eggs separated

• 50 g 50 butter room temperature, very soft

• 50 g 50 vegetable oil

• 200 g 200 powdered sugar

• 50 g 50 white sugar

• 100 g 100 spelt flour or all purpose

• 100 g 100 ground hazelnuts

• 1 tsp 1 cinnamon

• 1/4 tsp 1/4 ground cardamom optional

• 1/8 tsp 1/8 ground cloves optional

• 1/8 tsp 1/8 ground nutmeg optional

• 1/2 1/2 orange organic, juice and zest

• 100 g 100 lingonberry jam or cranberry jam for topping the apples of

• Cinnamon topping sprinkle

• 2 tsp 2 sugar for cinnamon sugar

• 1 tsp 1 cinnamon for cinnamon sugar

• 2 tbsp 2 almond slices

Equipment

• round tart form / 28cm standard

Nutrition Facts

• Calories: 568kcal
• Carbohydrates: 78g
• Protein: 9g
• Fat: 27g
• Saturated Fat: 12g
• Cholesterol: 115mg
• Sodium: 112mg
• Potassium: 227mg
• Fiber: 8g
• Sugar: 54g
• Vitamin A: 477IU
• Vitamin C: 11mg
• Calcium: 61mg
• Iron: 2mg

Did you make this recipe?

Tag @twosisterslivinglife on Instagram and hashtag it with

Like this recipe?

Follow @twosissterslivinglife on Pinterest

Give us a follow!

Follow us on Facebook

baked apples, apple cake recipes, sourdough starter discard recipes, dessert ideas, apple cinnamon cake. what to do with sourdough discard, winter cake, easy

The post Sourdough baked cinnamon apples cake – a sourdough discard recipe appeared first on Two Sisters Living Life.