Apple Hand Pies

🧂 Ingredients

• 4 tbsp butter

  divided
• 4 cups apples

  diced or cut into small chunks
• 1 cup white granulated sugar
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1 pinch salt
• ½ lemon, juiced
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• ½ tsp nutmeg
• 1 ½ tsp corn starch for thickening
• 1 package pie dough
• Demerara sugar for finishing

  if desired

Instructions

• 1 Preheat your oven to 375 degrees F.
• 2 Line two cookie sheets with parchment, set aside.
• 3 In a large pan over medium heat add the butter, let it start to melt a bit. Then
  toss in your apples, both sugars, lemon juice and salt. Cook this for about 5 to
  7 minutes, until the apples soften and the mixture starts to brown up a bit.Add
  your cinnamon and nutmeg.
• 4 If it's overly watery (depends on the kind of apples you used) you can drain off
  some excess liquid. If there's only a little bit of juice add about 1 teaspoon
  of corn starch and allow that to cook for a minute or two to thicken it up. You
  can add more if needed.
• 5 Take off the heat and allow to stand till needed.
• 6 On a lightly floured surface, roll out your pie dough. I used cookie cutters to
  cut out my shapes. Cut two for each pie. Depending on your cutter size it should
  make 8 to 12 pies. Remember to cut double so you have a top and bottom piece. If
  you have a mini cutter you can cut a fun shape in for steam.
• 7 Place the bottom layers on the cookie sheet.
• 8 Now spoon about 1 tablespoon of the fried apples into each pie shape. Keep it
  sort of in the middle so you don't have pie mixture around the edge, that needs
  to be clean to pinch the pies.
• 9 Now take the top layers and pop them over each shape.
• 10 With your fingers press down around the edges of all the pies. For good measure
  go around them with a fork dipped in a touch of flour or water.
• 11 Now melt the remaining 2 tablespoons of butter in a saucepan.
• 12 Brush that butter over top of each pie shape.
• 13 Sprinkle some demerara sugar over top.
• 14 Pop in the oven for about 12 to 15 depending on the size of the cookie cutter
  you used to cut out your shapes. Start keeping an eye around 8 minutes in case
  yours in way smaller than mine was.
• 15 Remove from the oven.
• 16 If desired you can sprinkle them with powdered sugar.
• 17 Serve with a big old apple pie loving smile!

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