Mini Apple Pies

• 1¼ cups all-purpose flour
• ¼ tsp salt
• ½ cup (1 stick, 113 g) cold unsalted butter, cut in ½-inch cubes
• 3 to 4 tbsp ice water
• flour, for rolling
• 3 Honeycrisp apples, diced small
• 2 tbsp light brown sugar
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 1 tbsp cornstarch
• A squeeze of lemon
• ½ cup rolled oats
• 2 tbsp light brown sugar, for the crumble
• 2 tbsp butter
• A shake of cinnamon
• 24 parchment squares

1. Make the crust: whisk the flour and salt in a bowl. Cut in the cold butter with a pastry blender, two knives or your fingertips, and stop while the pieces are still about the size of walnut halves. Pieces that size give a flaky crust; worked down to peas, it turns mealy.
2. Sprinkle on 3 tablespoons of ice water and toss with a fork just until the dough holds when you squeeze it. Add the last tablespoon only if it still crumbles; up here a little more water may help. Do not knead: overworking builds gluten and makes the crust tough. Press it into a disk, wrap it and chill at least 1 hour.
3. Set a rack in the lower third of the oven, so the bottoms bake crisp instead of soggy, and heat the oven to 375 °F. Put a parchment square in each cup of a 24-cup mini muffin tin.
4. Roll the dough on a floured counter a little thinner than ⅛ inch and cut 24 rounds with the rim of a ⅓-cup measuring cup (about 2.6 in), re-rolling the scraps once. Press one into each cup.
5. Toss the apples with the sugar, cinnamon, cornstarch and lemon. Add a heaping tablespoon to each cup.
6. Rub the oats, brown sugar, butter and cinnamon together until clumpy and top each cup.
7. Bake on the lower rack 20–25 minutes, until the edges are golden and the filling bubbles.
8. Cool 10 minutes in the tin, lift out by the parchment, and cool completely.

• Refrigerated pie crust sheets (Safeway Signature Select; contains lard)
• Honeycrisp apples, diced small
• Light brown sugar
• Cinnamon
• Cornstarch
• 1 egg beaten with 1 tbsp water, for the egg wash

Contains wheat, egg. Not vegan: butter crust.

• NutritionReading a Nutrition Facts label8 min
• NutritionFat: what it does, and saturated fat7 min
• NutritionAdded sugars6 min