Blueberry Apple Mini Pies for Pi Day
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.
Blueberry Apple Mini Pies for 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
Strawberry-White Chocolate Cheesecake Hand “Pi” es from Culinary Concoctions by Peabody
Chicken Pot Pie from Barbara Bakes
Adorable!!!
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!
Very cute. I love mini pies also, and blueberries and apples go so well together.
great idea, these are so cute!! I’ve never thought of apple and blueberry together, but they sound amazing. 🙂
Those mini pies look simply irresistible! I love the combination of apple and blueberry!
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
Your photos are irresistible !! yum yummmm
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!
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!
Barbara…I love your mini pies…and blueberries are my favorite…like it with apples…by the way, happy Pi Day 🙂
these are too cute for words! i love them, happy pi day!
What a lovely way to celebrate pi day. Pies are round so really you were celebrating ‘pi’ to some extent. Yum!
These pies are so cute! I love the pie in a jar idea!
that looks very gorgeous! wish i had one right now:) thank you for sharing this.
how cute, i love these tiny pies, i always miss pie day, thanks for sharing!!
sweetlife
That is adorable. I am disappointed I missed PI day.
These are so darn cute Barbara!! Great posts great pies for Pi day!
How absolutely gorgeous – just found your blog and it’s lovely.
Thanks! So glad you found me.
I want the pies AND the cookbook!
What beautiful photos and I’m sure that they tasted great. Who cares about equations when we could be eating pie!