Apple Pie Balls

They're even better than they sound.

I spend time on Pinterest for work (...I know...) and therefore now have a sick obsession with everything on it. Mostly food and skinny people, which is some sort of evil combination that just leads me to look at pictures of beautiful kitchens instead.

Anyway, I found this recipe here and altered things a bit. 

So here it goes.

Ingredients:

2 large apples 

1 box of 9' Pillsbury Pie Crusts (I used both of them)

rolling pin

3 inch cookie cutter (I used a small glass bowl and anything with subtly sharp edges works)

2 tbs. sugar, and more

1/2 teaspoon cinnamon, and more

1/4 tsp. nutmeg

flour

1 egg

Preheat oven at 425 degrees.

Directions:

1. Remove skin and chop apples into inch by inch pieces - you can also use a tiny ice cream scoop to make them even circles but my ice cream scoop makes Morgan sized ice cream mounds (i.e. NOT small). Set aside.

2. In a small bowl, combine sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg. 

3. Combine mixture with apples and set aside. 

4. Sprinkle flour on your surface and roll out the pie crust dough. Tip: Keep in the fridge until this point to make handling it easier. With your cookie cutter or bowl or other apparatus, form circles with your dough. With a rolling pin, roll out the remnants of the dough and repeat until there's no extra dough left.

5. Place one apple piece every dough circle, Note: You'll need one apple piece for every circle and vice versa.

6. Gather all sides of each dough circle and pinch at the top. Be sure to really pinch this so that your pie balls don't explode in the oven. It's OK if you see apple peeping out. Place each ball on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. (I didn't use any paper...not a good idea). Repeat until finished.

7. In a small bowl, beat your egg with a few teaspoons of water. Brush over the top of each pie ball. 

8. Use the remaining sugar/cinnamon mixture (ok, maybe I made a LOT more) and sprinkle generously over the top of each pie ball.

9. Place in oven for 14-16 minutes or until crust becomes golden on the outside.

10. Place on cooling rack (or burn your mouth like I always do) and enjoy with a heaping mound of vanilla ice cream.

Enjoy! Would LOVE to hear if you try these and if you do something differently!

MMMmmmmmm....