Happy Pi Day!!!

As many of you are probably aware March 14^th is Pi Day, for those who don’t know this day is dedicated to the mathematical constant pi (π). Why? Because if you write the date the American way, (3/14) you get the first 3 digits of pi.

So in honour of this truly great number I made some mini apple pies or are they apple pi’s? Ok I’ll stop now

For some reason my pastry decided to rise a lot,
so these looked a lot neater before they went into the oven...

To make these I just used some leftover short crust pastry I had lurking in the freezer and a couple of dessert apples that needed eating up. So yeah this isn’t a proper recipe really.

Makes 6 mini pies

Ingredients

half a block of short crust pastry
2 dessert apples: peeled, cored and finely chopped
2 dessertspoonfuls of light soft brown sugar
cinnamon to taste
small knob of butter

Method
Roll out the pastry and cut out 6 circles, line a 6 hole cupcake pan with these circles. Cut out 6 extra small circles for the pie lids, then using the leftovers cut out the pi symbol (π). Use a template or go freehand like I did! Then wet the back of each symbol with a little water and stick them to the pie lids.

Melt the butter and gently fry the chopped apple in it for a couple of minutes until the apple starts to soften. Remove from the heat and put into a bowl, add the sugar and cinnamon to the bowl and stir well. Divide the mixture evenly between the pies and then top each pie with one of the lids and push down gently.

Bake in a preheated oven at Gas mark 6/ 200 C for 20 minutes. Leave on a wire rack to cool.