Mini Apple Pies

These pies are delicious and perfectly sized! It takes about 30 min for the pie filling, and they're great whether you use a homemade pie crust or a store bought crust. Now you can use the following recipe for a regular sized apple pie or you can use a cupcake tin for mini apple pies. :)

For the Pie Crust recipe, click here.


Pie Filling:
6 cups peeled and thinly sliced apples
2/3 cup light brown sugar
2 tbsp flour
2 tsp cinnamon (feel free to add more, we love cinnamon!)
1 tsp nutmeg

1.Mix together all the ingredients, adding in the apple slices last, until the apple slices are adequately covered with the sugar mix.
2. Take a large mug, and cut out circles in the pie crust that are a little larger than the size of your cupcakes in your tin.
3. Place the crust into each of the cupcake openings in the tin. If you have enough extra, play around with the crust until it looks the way you want.
4. Put 1/3 cup of the pie filling into each crust holder.
5. Use the left over crust to make the mini pie coverings.

For the Mini Apple Pies, bake at 375 for 25 min.

Catch you on the sweet side!
Marcie and Katelyn

My Great Grandmother's Pie Crust

This recipe comes straight from my Great Grandmother's recipe book. So many happy memories, all with delicious pies to go along with them. :)

Ingredients:
4 cups flour
1 tbsp sugar
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
2 cups shortening
1/2 cup water
1 egg
1 tsp vinegar

1. Combine the flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt.
2. Cut the shortening into the flour mixture.
3. In a separate bowl, mix together the water, egg, and vinegar and add that into the main mix.
4. Chill for 1 hour then roll out on a floured board until the correct size.

According to my grandmother, this crust can be chilled for a week to ten days.

Enjoy!
Katelyn

Gluten Free From a Box

This weekend I baked from a box (gasp!)-- no it’s not my favorite way to make deliciousness, but it sure is easy. Just add one egg and a stick of butter and 15 minutes later you have gluten free cookies thanks to Betty Crocker.

If not wheat then what flour? Ol’ Betty uses rice flour, Semi sweet chocolate chips, brown sugar, sugar, potato starch, potato flour, leavening and salt. Coming in at 3000 calories (prepared) for all the cookies in the box, this is not a snack for those watching their waistline.

How does it taste? Honestly, kinda grainy. It’s super sweet consistency could be hard to adjust to if your used to eating wheat flour chocolate cookies. I found that if you freeze the GF cookies while they are still warm, it creates a soft texture that is tasty to eat while cold.

I would give this 3 out of 5 bites.

And so it begins

What’s a girl to do when she just wants to bake?

Starting a baking business isn’t the piece of cake you'd think it would be, especially when you live in California. We want to invite you all to follow us as we make the journey into the wonderful world of baking. From gluten free to vegan we want to develop the best tasting baked goods using the best ingredients. No, we are not Martha Stewart (no matter how much Katelyn wishes she was), but we can make a mean cupcake.

So join us in our journey to the top as we fill out legal paper work, sell cupcakes, and enjoy MANY tastings. There will be pictures, jokes, and even a few tears but when the cupcakes are done that first bite will always worth it.

Catch you on the sweet side,
Marcie and Katelyn