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Apple Pie Cookies... too a gluten-free version.

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Apple Pie Cookies... too a gluten-free version. I'm deplorable I don't intend on posting likewise many dessert recipes i later another... but I've had a few sitting inward my draft that I should post. So acquit alongside me equally I "clean" my draft folder.

If you lot recollect I posted a make-ahead pie crust recipe some fourth dimension ago... a pie crust you lot could shop inward the freezer for hereafter use. Well, I wanted to demonstrate you lot what I ended upwards doing alongside one-half the batch. I made these apple tree pie cookies finally year, for a church building Christmas hymn sing, but I'm finally getting around to posting the recipe.

The persuasion of making apple tree pie cookies powerfulness non survive thence new, equally I'm sure many of you lot receive got seen apple tree pie cookie recipes floating all over the internet. Personally, I've ever wanted to brand them. I persuasion they were the cutest of things:).

Since I ever brand my ain pie crust, I ended upwards using my homemade version, but this recipe tin easily made alongside whatever pie crust really. You tin utilisation a ready-made shop bought pie crust, or fifty-fifty utilisation your ain pie crust recipe that's special to you... possibly handed downwardly from your woman nurture or grandmother. The recipe I utilisation is an all-butter crust...  which makes for a tender too flaky pastry-like crust.

I dearest adding a nut filling to my apple tree pies, equally it gives it extra flavour too a fleck of texture. It also holds the bottom of the pie crust from getting likewise soggy. I applied the same persuasion when making these pie cookies, but you lot tin for sure skip the nut filling if you lot want... or you lot tin add together a fleck of caramel.

While you lot tin brand simple, round, double-crusted apple tree pie cookies, I rather similar the lattice look. It makes the cookies hold back a fleck to a greater extent than elegant... to a greater extent than pastry-like, rather than cookies. But experience gratis to brand the cookies without the lattice top.

And since I also made a gluten-free version, I persuasion to postal service that equally well. The lattice for the GF apple tree pie cookies was quite a fleck harder to make. I'd recommend crisscrossing the lattice part, without interweaving them, or fifty-fifty skipping the lattice utilisation completely too using but circular pie circles(double-crust). The GF crust is much to a greater extent than fragile... prone to breaking, too giving you lot a headache:).

Hopefully, the apple tree pie cookie persuasion is seen inward this post, my intention was non to teach inward hold back likewise complicated:).... because it actually isn't.  They're but mini apple tree pies... flatter... to receive got on the shape of cookies. You'll  have a few scraps from the cutouts, but you lot tin bake them equally is, or identify the scraps inward x-small muffin tins.... makes actually practiced mini "tarts". Of course, you lot tin skip the cutouts too  make i large lattice apple tree pie cookie. Actually, I persuasion of  making i large cookie myself... but I'd likely telephone proper name upwards it an apple tree pie tart:).... particularly if you lot cutting it inward wedges. Maybe side past times side time. Hope you lot enjoy...    

You volition need: makes close xx ( 2-3 inch) apple tree pie cookies

Ingredients For Making Pie Cookies:

two pie crusts
apple tree pie filling
nut filling, or tin utilisation a caramel filling
cinnamon, nutmeg sugar
raw carbohydrate crystals
icing, optional
beaten egg for brushing overstep of pie cookies

Nut Filling: For i regular apple tree pie cookies recipe. Will involve to brand some other 1/2 of the recipe for a GF version 

1/2 loving cup dry reason walnuts
1 TBS brownish sugar, or to taste
1 TBS beaten egg
1/8 tsp vanilla

Apple Filling: will need only 1/2 of the filling to brand the regular apple tree pie cookies recipe... tin freeze the residual or utilisation the residual to brand the GF version below

two large apples*
1 TBS cornstarch
4- v TBS sugar
2-3 TBS lemon meyer juice
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1/4 tsp cinnamon
* I used 1 large fuji apple tree + 1 large pinkish lady apple= iv 1/2- v cups sm. die apples



Directions:

Make Nut Filling:
1. Beat egg, too take 1 TBS beaten egg too identify inward a bowl. Reserve the residual of the egg for brushing the overstep of the cookies.
2. To the 1 TBS beaten egg, add together the dry reason walnuts, brownish carbohydrate too vanilla. Combine all ingredients. Set aside. This nut filling makes plenty for but the regular pie  cookies, but if you lot would similar to brand a gluten-free version, too thence you lot volition involve to brand some other 1/2 a batch. Set aside.

Make Apple Filling: 
1. Peel too cutting apples inward pocket-size die pieces( 1/4 inch or so)... you lot should receive got close v cups.
2. In a medium saucepan, add together diced apples, cornstarch, sugar, too cinnamon. Heat on med-low too mix ingredients until combined. Cook, stirring often... till apples slightly soften too thicken. This volition receive got close 10 -12 minutes or so. Taste filling, adapt for sweetness too add together the lemon juice. Stir inward the vanilla. Set aside.


Make Cinnamon Sugar + Icing:
1 TBS sugar+ 1/4 tsp cinnamon+ a few gratings of nutmeg
Powdered sugar+ a fleck of H2O + lemon/vanilla extract to drizzling consistency

Assemble Apple Pie Cookies:
  • Preheat oven to 375 deg F
  • Line a cookie canvass alongside parchment paper.

1. Roll out i pie crust to close 12 inches inward diameter... or so. 
2. Spread nut filling on bottom of crust... all the agency to the edge.
3. Place close 1 loving cup of the diced apple tree filling too spread on overstep of the nut filling. You volition receive got some apple tree filling leftover. You may freeze the residual for some other use,  or utilisation it to brand some other pocket-size batch of GF pie cookies , equally I did.
4. Roll out 2nd pie crust to close 12 inches too cutting 1/2 inch strips. Place strips inward lattice blueprint on overstep of the apple tree filling. 
5. Brush lattice overstep alongside beaten egg, sprinkle alongside cinnamon sugar, tin add together a fleck of raw coarse carbohydrate equally well, if desired.
6. Using a two 1/2- three inch abrupt circular cookie cutter, cutting out cookies... making sure to teach out equally lilliputian a infinite betwixt cutouts to maximize the break of cookies you lot get.
7. Place cookies on parchment lined cookie sheet. With scraps, I similar to utilisation a mini muffin tin too bake them... this agency I don't waste matter the scraps too plow them into mini muffin pie scraps.  You tin run into this inward the GF version photos below.
8. Bake inward preheated 375 deg F oven for 20-25 minutes or until golden.
9. If you lot like, you lot tin drizzle some cookies alongside a powdered carbohydrate icing. 

Gluten- Free Apple Pie Cookies
Note: It is best to proceed pie crust cold, equally it is hard to locomote alongside if dough is soft. And utilisation a fleck of GF flour to dust locomote surface equally you lot curlicue out dough.

You volition need:

1 GF pie crust recipe, iv pieces, rolled inward half dozen inch circles
1 loving cup diced apple tree pie filling
1/2 nut filling(recipe above)

Directions:
  • Preheat oven to 375 deg F
  • Line a cookie canvass alongside parchment paper
1. Cut pie crust inward iv pieces. You volition involve to locomote alongside smaller pieces, equally the crust is quite fragile. Roll out i slice of the dough to close half dozen inch or so.
2. Spread close two tablespoons or thence of nut filling on crust, too thence add together close 1/2 loving cup of apple tree pie filling too spread it to the edge.
3. Roll out some other half dozen inch pie crust, cutting inward strips too shape lattice top.... 
Now, I must acknowledge this was quite challenging equally the dough breaks easily. I used a knife to elevator upwards the strips too had many broken pieces. In the terminate it turned out ok. It's doable, but if you lot wishing to teach inward easier, you lot tin opt to cutting out pocket-size shapes too utilisation those instead or fifty-fifty placing some other rolled out crust on overstep equally you lot would when making regular pies(w/out whatever lattice work). 
4. Brush overstep alongside beaten egg, sprinkle alongside cinnamon sugar, tin add together a fleck of raw coarse carbohydrate equally well, if desired.
5. Using a two 1/2- three inch abrupt circular cookie cutter, cutting out cookies... 
6. Place cookies on parchment lined cookie sheet.
7. Repeat the procedure alongside the other two pieces. 
8. With scraps, I similar to utilisation a mini muffin tin too bake them... this agency I don't waste matter the scraps too plow them into mini muffin pies. 
9. Bake inward preheated 375 deg F oven for xv minutes or so... or until golden.
10. If you lot like, you lot tin drizzle some cookies alongside a powdered carbohydrate icing.