I love pie! I look forward to Pi Day every year. Pi Day has been celebrated on March 14 every year for the last 22 years. I suppose some people really care about equations and pi, but for me it’s just a good excuse to eat pie.
The inspiration for these mini pies came from a great new cookbook from Our Best Bites. I was lucky enough to attend their recent book launch at Orson Gygi. This cookbook is filled with beautiful pictures, delicious recipes and great tips; and I love that it’s spiral bound.
Our best Bites most popular blog post (included in their cookbook) is Pie in a Jar. Since I didn’t have any of the wide-mouth jars that they use in the recipe, I decided to make them in 8 oz. Pyrex custard cups. It’s so fun to have an individual pie all to yourself!
My filling is a combination of canned blueberry pie filling and apples. I love the flavor of berry pie, but adding apples gives the filling more volume and a nicer texture. Using an apple peeler/corer makes it so easy and fun to peel and core apples. I love the little apple ringlets.
These little pies were scrumptious! A fabulous way to celebrate Pi Day.
Ingredients
- 1 21 oz. can blueberry pie filling
- 3 small gala apples, peeled, cored and diced
- 2 Pie Crust Doughs (either *homemade or store bought)
- Egg Wash:
- 1 egg
- 1 tablespoon milk
Directions
- Preheat oven to 425º. In a large bowl combine blueberry pie filling and diced apples.
- Roll pie crust dough 1/4 inch thick. Using a 4 inch biscuit cutter or round, cut 12 circles of dough. Put one circle in the bottom of each of six 8 oz. custard cups. Use the scraps of leftover dough to completely cover the inside of the custard cup. Trim the dough even with the top of the cup.
- Fill the pies with blueberry apple filling.
- Top the filling with a circle of dough. Use a fork to seal the edges of the top dough to the bottom dough. Cut slits in the dough to allow steam to escape. (If you'd like to cut a design in the top dough, cut it before placing it on top of the filling.)
- Whisk egg wash ingredients together and brush it lightly on to top crust. (You won't use all of the egg wash.)
- Bake at 425º for 15 minutes. Reduce temperature to 375º and continue baking for and additional 30 - 40 minutes until the pies are golden and bubbly.
- *Please see my Strawberry Pie post for my Perfect Pie Crust recipe and tips on making pie crust.
More great Pi Day recipes:
Pi Day… How to Celebrate (without being a math whiz) from The Changeable Table
Irish Beef Hand Pies from Megan’s Cookin
Strawberry-White Chocolate Cheesecake Hand “Pi” es from Culinary Concoctions by Peabody
Chicken Pot Pie from Barbara Bakes
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I love to bake, especially cookies, cakes, and pies. I’ll post my adventures in the kitchen, my favorite new recipes, as well as our family favorites.
Happy Pi Day , Barbara. These pies couldn’t get any cuter.
Oh my heavens! You just made two of my favourite pies into one delicious pie! I love the pie in the jar idea but have yet to get some jars to make the pies. Your idea to use these little pyrex custard cups is great.
These are adorable and delightful. I would love to have my own individual pie. And the pie in a jar is too cute. I’ll have to try that someday soon.
Thanks for linking to me. Your such a sweetie pie! LOL
so cute! i love pies in a jar… perfect size and even more fun than big pie!!!
Not only did you combine my two favorite pies but you served them so prettily. I must get custard cups!!!
These look perfect for a tea party – thanks for the recipe and the idea!
How cute are these?! i have never seen them baked individually before. Looks super quick and easy! I have to make these soon..bookmarking the recipe!
Oh Barbara, I love it! What a great idea to use little bowls- and that filling looks fantastic. It was so great to finally meet you in person, thanks so much for coming to our little event!
-Sara
Barbara, Your little pies are so adorable! More importantly(I think:)), I’m sure they taste great! This way I can eat a whole pie and not feel guilty:)
Mum they’re adorable! And I need a foodie’s calender to remind me of when these important food related days are!
Barbara — I love the combination of apples and blueberries – the apples always adds a nice texture to compliment the blueberries! I’m pretty jealous right now that you’re using a can of Lucky Leaf blueberry filling! I wished Lucky Leaf was available in my area -it’s so delicious! The individual pies are beautiful and a wonderful way to celebrate Pi day!
You’re so right. The Lucky Leaf berry fillings are the best canned filling I’ve tasted.
Whta gorgeous little pies! That combi is just heavenly.
Cheers,
Rosa
I can’t believe I missed pie day! But I love the mini pies- perfect for our little household!
I love blueberry pie too that I even made one last week. Next time I will make this mini-pie looks so delicious and cute.
Adorable! Can’t wait to get my hands on one of those OBB cookbooks! Happy Pi Day
Is it breakfast or dessert? It has fruit in it… so I’m going with breakfast.
This is making me drool all over my keyboard. Evil!
I think the rule is if you have pie with a glass of milk it’s breakfast and if it’s topped with ice cream it’s dessert.
Thanks!
Barbara, these are adorable. I am into minis because they are so much more fun to serve and personally, I think, they are more attractive. These are. I am sure they taste even better than they look and they look fantastic.
These might be your best photos yet! I love the berry mixture dripping over the sides.
So nice! Thanks!
Cute and yum! I just made a Dutch apple pie yesterday. Love your little minis!
I have those custard cups too Barbara and I totally will be making mini pies in them sometime soon. What a fabulous idea!
What beautiful photos and I’m sure that they tasted great. Who cares about equations when we could be eating pie!
I want the pies AND the cookbook!
How absolutely gorgeous – just found your blog and it’s lovely.
Thanks! So glad you found me.
These are so darn cute Barbara!! Great posts great pies for Pi day!
That is adorable. I am disappointed I missed PI day.
how cute, i love these tiny pies, i always miss pie day, thanks for sharing!!
sweetlife
that looks very gorgeous! wish i had one right now:) thank you for sharing this.
These pies are so cute! I love the pie in a jar idea!
What a lovely way to celebrate pi day. Pies are round so really you were celebrating ‘pi’ to some extent. Yum!
these are too cute for words! i love them, happy pi day!
Barbara…I love your mini pies…and blueberries are my favorite…like it with apples…by the way, happy Pi Day
Dang…. we celebrated Pi day here too. I “bought” a chocolate cream pie…. yours looks waaaay better. Don’t tell the kids, they’ll want to move to Aunt Barbara’s!!!
The kids (and you) are welcome to come stay at Aunt Barbara’s any time!
I pulled up your page and my husband promptly goes, Oh my god, why don’t you ever make pies like that? LOL I agree, these look fabulous for pi day. Ver impressive.
Your comment definitely put a smile on my face today. Thanks!
Your photos are irresistible !! yum yummmm
I wasn’t aware of pi day…good to know.
After seeing your pie, all i am wishing is that you were here so i could have dug into one of those mini pies…lol
Those mini pies look simply irresistible! I love the combination of apple and blueberry!
great idea, these are so cute!! I’ve never thought of apple and blueberry together, but they sound amazing.
Very cute. I love mini pies also, and blueberries and apples go so well together.
Never ever thought of baking mini pies in ramekins or pyrex dishes like this. They are adorable and look really delicious. Tempting! Now I want to try!
Adorable!!!
They look so scrumptious! I’d love to try some!!
So cute! Love the jar tip!
How cute are those pies?! Apple pie is my favorite and I just love how you combined blueberries and apples in one pie.
It looks amazing!
I remember reading your post a year ago on Pi day and thinking that I must remember it for this year but I’ve forgotten again! Oh well there’s always next year. Your pie looks amazing. I am partial to pie – blueberry and apple are winning flavour combinations for me
These are so adorable! I love that you made them individual!
These are so cute and I agree that it is fun to have a pie all to yourself!
These look amazing! Cant wait to see you this Friday!
These are some of the most adorable mini pies I have seen! I love the blueberry apple combo…yum!
I think I love this post of your the most GF. It’s gorgeous in every way! What a wonderful book, and what a charming pie. Beautiful pictures too! xo
Too cool! I’ve seen the pie in jars before, but your version takes the cake! er… um.. pie! And blueberry anything is always my favorite.