Cardamom Scented Apple Bourbon Hand Pies
This easy recipe for Cardamom Scented Apple Bourbon Hand Pies has delicately spiced apples with slight bourbon notes, wrapped up in a flaky crust & baked until golden!
Servings: 8
Ingredients
- 2 sheets prepared pie dough
- 4 large apples peeled and cored and diced small (¾ of an inch)
- 3 tablespoons unsalted butter
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ¼ cup white sugar
- ¼ cup brown sugar
- 1 teaspoons ground cardamom
- 1 pinch Saffron optional
- 1 tablespoon bourbon
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch
- 2 tablespoon heavy cream optional
- Coarse Sugar optional
Instructions
- Peel and core your apples and then cut them in ¾-inch dice. Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F or 220 degrees C
- Set a heavy bottomed, medium size pan on medium high heat. Add the butter and let it melt. Once the butter starts to sizzle, add the diced apples. Sprinkle with salt and both sugars.
- Cook the apples for about 7-8 minutes, stirring occasionally, until the apples soften.
- At this point add the cardamom and saffron (if using) and continue cooking for a minute or two.
- Stir in cornstarch, mix well, and cook for 2 more minutes or until the mixture thickens. Remove from heat and stir in bourbon. Let cool completely.
- While the filling is cooling, sprinkle some flour on your kitchen counter and unroll the pie dough. Cut out circles from pie crust. If you use a medium sized cookie cutter, you should have 32 pie crust pieces.
- Line two cookie sheets with parchment paper. Lay 16 circles of pie crust on the lined cookie sheets.
- Add about half a teaspoon of filling in the middle of each pie crust piece.
- Take the remaining 16 pie crust pieces and while working with one piece at a time, wet the edges with water and cover the piece with apple filling in it.
- Seal the edges and use a fork to crimp them. Use a sharp knife to make 2-3 cuts in the hand pie (see pictures). Repeat for all 16 hand pies.
- Mix some water with heavy cream (if using) and using a pastry brush, brush each hand pie with this cream and water “glaze”. Sprinkle some coarse sugar on each hand pie.
- Stick the cookie sheets in your pre heated oven and bake for 25 minutes or until golden brown.
- Remove the cookie sheets from the oven and let the cardamom scented apple bourbon hand pies cool on a cooling rack for 10 minutes.
- Enjoy