Air Fryer Apple Hand Pies
I remember eating Apple turnovers from local supermarket bakeries when I was little. They use a flaky pastry and had a generous sprinkling of demerara sugar. It was always such a treat! Since I joined my Mum in the kitchen, we’ve started making a lot more sweet treats together at home and now it’s been ages since we’ve bought these sorts of pastries from out! These apple pies are similar to those apple turnovers but use a homemade shortcrust pastry instead. The beauty of using the Air Fryer is that they are ready so much quicker than baking and still retain a really soft yet crumbly texture. These pies are: ✔️eggless ✔️easy to make and with all-natural ingredients ✔️kid-friendly ✔️travel friendly ✔️easy to scale the recipe up or down ✔️easy to incorporate your own flavours
🍏Ingredients for Air fryer Apple Pies
(exact measurements and instructions can be found in the recipe card below) The filling we have gone for is apple and mixed fruit. We have cooked the filling a little before adding to the pastry. The ingredients you will need are: Shortcut Pastry – check below ⇩ how to make basic shortcut pastry at home. Shop bought works fine too. If using frozen pastry, make sure it is thoroughly thawed before using. Apple and Mixed Fruit Pies – check below ⇩ how to make the apple filling at home, but shop-bought works fine too. Light honey and water – creates honey wash, which helps the pie crust/pastry get that lovely golden colour on top.
How to make a Basic Shortcrust Pastry & Tips
A decent shortcrust pastry is essential for a good pie. It seems like effort but the end effect is so much better than copping out and getting shop bought (I’m guilty of this myself but it makes a difference!) Shortcut pastry is suitable for both sweet and savoury dishes, can be made using a food processor or hands. We love savoury pies too, some of our favourites being these air fryer Cornish Pasty and Vegan Harry Potter style Pumpkin Pasties Recently, I baked these Air fryer Baklava and Frozen Empanadas in the air fryer, and can not believe that how delicious they turned out. The ingredients you will need are: ● Plain white flour ● Butter for vegans use vegetable shortening ● Pinch of salt ● Chilled water First, start by weighing out your flour and butter. We have used a ratio of 2:1 of flour to butter. For 250g of butter, we used 500g of flour. Cut the butter into cubes. Do this fast as we want the butter to be as cold as possible. If you have to, after making cubes, place the butter back into the fridge Next, rub the butter into the flour using only your fingertips – the palm of your hands will be too warm for this. When the butter is fully incorporated, this stage is complete Next, add a small pinch of salt Add chilled water a little by little until you have formed a stiff dough. The dough will still have some cracks. This is fine and should still roll out smoothly. Bring the dough together to form a ball, cover with clingfilm and place in the fridge for at least an hour to relax the gluten, which helps to stop shrinkage when baking/cooking.
Tips to make foolproof shortcrust pastry
How to make Apple Pie filling
Tips and store Apple Pie Filling
What to make with Apple Pie Filling
How to make Apple Hand Pies
Serving suggestions
Light brown muscovado sugar White granulated sugar Mixed Spice – contains ground cinnamon, coriander seed, nutmeg, clove, pimento, and ginger Cardamom powder We also added extra nutmeg and cinnamon powder. Lemon Juice – helps prevent the apples from going brown after cutting
