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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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Fall is calling and telling you to bake Antonias favorite Apple Pie! Whats better on a rainy cold day than to eat a warm apple pie!? Heaven!

There are many apple pie recipes out there in the deep of the world wide web but this one is our favorite! It is not a traditionally made apple pie made in a pie dish, it’s made in a springform pan!

We love making this apple pie, cause our house always smells like heaven and Christmas! I think my heaven smells like Christmas, haha;-) We used Stay spiced! “Bratapfel” (Baked apple) spice blend and everything smelled so amazing! For those who can’t get their hands on this amazing spice blend I would recommend you making our homemade pumpkin spice blend, it fits too! Love using this spice blend for all kind of things, it’s my favorite! Sugar & Spice and everything nice, the blend contains brown sugar, different kinds of cinnamon, orange peel, allspice, clove, ginger, vanilla and other spices!

My favorite apples to use for baking

…are Golden Delicious and Pink Lady (although they are pretty expensive) and all the other locally grown apples in Austria. The only apple I would not use are Granny Smith, cause I’ve read somewhere that they do not hold their shapes and turn soft and mushy while baking.

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Make the homemade Apple Pie Crust ahead

To make the apple pie start with preparing the crust. Homemade pie crust can be made one or two days ahead, chilled in the refrigerator. The recipe I am using for the pie crust is my favorite which I’ve also used for the Pumpkin Pie Tartes. It is an all butter crust and very delicious and goes perfectly well with fall recipes!

The ingredients I used for the pie crust are cupboard stables: whole grain flour, granulated sugar, brown sugar, salt, butter and ice cold water which I’ve put in the freezer before using it.

It’s pretty simple: In a large mixing bowl combine whole grain flour, brown and granulated sugar and salt. Add the butter cubes and rub in with your fingers until the mix looks like fine crumbs. You can also use a pastry knife. Add the ice water and combine everything to a dough. Chill in the fridge for at least 30min.

Apple Pie Filling:

The filling consists of two parts the sliced apples, which are steamed for 10 minutes until soft and then after cooling mixed together with brown sugar and Bratapfelgewürz from Stayspiced and the apple pie batter. In a bowl of a stand mixer combine the butter with the sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs and mix until incorporated. In a septerate bowl combine the flour, baking powder and salt. Slowly add to the mixer and beat until combined. Add heavy cream and mix until smooth. Set aside.

Making the pie

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Preheat the oven to 180°C and prepare a 24cm springform pan with butter and flour.
Flatten the dough into a disc and roll the dough out with a floured rolling pin. As you are rolling the dough, turn the dough circle a couple times to make sure it is not sticking to the counter and add more flour to your work surface as needed. Transfer the dough circle to pan. To transfer the dough without tearing it, loosely wrap the pie dough around your rolling pin and then unroll it over your springform pan. Trim the edges so there is only about a bit of overhang
Place half of the apple pie batter on top of the crust, spreading until smooth. Top with all the apples and the layering the rest of the apple pie batter.
Cover with foil and bake for 40 minutes. Remove the foil and bake 20 minutes, until golden brown.
Let cool to room temperature before serving. Dust with confectioners sugar.

ENJOY<3

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Antonias Favorite Apple Pie

0 from 0 votes

Recipe by Antonia Course: cake, coffee cake, DessertCuisine: American

Servings

10

Prep time

45

minutes

Cooking time

1

hour 

Calories

532

kcal

This is my favorite apple pie and yours soon too! Made with a scrumptious whole grain pie crust and a delicious apple filling which just taste so perfectly like fall with all the spices.

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Ingredients

• Whole grain pie crust

• 2 1/4 cup 2 1/4 whole grain flour

• 3 tbsp 3 granulated sugar

• 2 tbsp 2 brown sugar

• 1/2 tsp 1/2 salt

• 180 g 180 butter

• 1/4 cup 1/4 ice cold water

• Apple filling

• 1 cup 1 water

• 10 medium 10 apple peeled and thinly sliced

• 4 tsp 4 apple pie spice we've used spiceworld Bratapfel seasoning

• 2 tbsp 2 brown sugar

• Apple pie batter

• 2/3 cup 2/3 butter

• 3/4 cup 3/4 granulated sugar

• 3 3 eggs

• 1 2/3 cup 1 2/3 flour

• 2 tsp 2 baking powder

• 1/2 tsp 1/2 salt

• 1/3 cup 1/3 heavy cream

Directions

• Making the pie crust
• In a large mixing bowl combine whole grain flour, brown and granulated sugar and salt. Add the butter cubes and rub in with your fingers until the mix looks like fine crumbs. You can also use a pastry knife. Add the ice water and combine everything to a dough. Chill in the fridge for 30min to 1 hour.
• Apple filling
• In a large pot bring the water to simmering temperature
• Add the peeled and thinly sliced apple in a steamer basekt to the pot and steam for 10 minutes until soft.
• Let cool to room temperature and combine the apples with the spice and brown sugar.
• Preparing the apple pie batter
• In a bowl of a stand mixer combine the butter with the sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs and mix until incorporated.
• In a septerate bowl combine the flour, baking powder and salt. Slowly add to the mixer and beat until combined. Add heavy cream and mix until smooth. Set aside.
• Making the cake
• Preheat the oven to 180°C and prepare a 24cm springform pan with butter and flour.
• Flatten the dough into a disc and roll the dough out with a floured rolling pin As you are rolling the dough, turn the dough circle a couple times to make sure it is not sticking to the counter and add more flour to your work surface as needed. Transfer the dough circle to pan. To transfer the dough without tearing it, loosely wrap the pie dough around your rolling pin and then unroll it over your springform pan. Trim the edges so there is only about a bit of overhang
• Place half of the apple pie batter on top of the crust, spreading until smooth. Top with all the apples and the layering the rest of the apple pie batter.
• Cover with foil and bake for 40 minutes. Remove the foil and bake 20 minutes, until golden brown.
• Let cool to room temperature before serving. Dust with confectioners sugar.

Nutrition Facts

• Calories: 532kcal
• Carbohydrates: 65g
• Protein: 7g
• Fat: 28g
• Saturated Fat: 17g
• Cholesterol: 109mg
• Sodium: 418mg
• Potassium: 347mg
• Fiber: 5g
• Sugar: 32g
• Vitamin A: 912IU
• Vitamin C: 6mg
• Calcium: 83mg
• Iron: 2mg

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