Mini love

Yesterday was Good Friday, and in celebration I baked some hot cross buns. Boring. More interestingly, I had pastry crust left over from the crosses and one apple from the farmer's market in my cupboard. My roommate has a mini-muffin plan. There seemed to be only one solution.


Recipe:
1/2 pie crust
Mini muffin pan
1 apple
1/2 tbsp cinnamon
2 tbsp sugar
1 tbsp cold butter

Preheat oven to 400.
Use biscuit cutter or round cookie cutter to make circles in pie crust, and press into 12 wells of the mini muffin pan - this should use up about 2/3 of your crust.
Thinly slice apple and cut slices in thirds or fourths (depending on size of apple).
Mix apple slices with cinnamon and sugar.
Divide apple mixture evenly between muffin wells
Cut butter into 12 cubes. Press one cube in each well.
Cut 12 smaller circles (I used a mini-apple cookie cutter) out of the pie crust and place on top.
Bake at 400 for 8 minutes, then reduce to 350 for another 15. Pies are done when the crust is brown and you can see some juices bubbling.



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