🍎 Fried Apple Pies
Crispy golden pastries filled with warm cinnamon apples—like handheld apple pie, but fried for extra crunch.
🧾 Ingredients
🍏 Apple filling
- 2–3 apples (peeled, chopped small)
- 2 tbsp butter
- 2–3 tbsp sugar (adjust to taste)
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- 1 tsp cornstarch + 2 tbsp water (to thicken, optional)
🥟 Dough
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tbsp sugar
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 3–4 tbsp butter (cold, cubed)
- ½ cup milk (add gradually)
🔥 For frying
- Oil (enough for shallow or deep frying)
👩🍳 Instructions
1. Make apple filling
In a pan:
- Melt butter
- Add apples, sugar, cinnamon, lemon juice
- Cook 8–10 minutes until soft
Optional: add cornstarch slurry to thicken
Let filling cool completely.
2. Make dough
Mix:
- flour, sugar, salt, baking powder
- cut in cold butter until crumbly
- add milk slowly until soft dough forms
Rest 10–15 minutes.
3. Shape pies
- Roll dough thin
- Cut into circles (or rectangles)
- Add spoonful of apple filling
- Fold and seal edges tightly (press with fork)
4. Fry
- Heat oil on medium
- Fry pies until golden brown (2–3 minutes per side)
- Drain on paper towels
5. Finish (optional)
- Dust with powdered sugar
- Or brush with melted butter + cinnamon sugar
🍎 Result
You get crispy, flaky Fried apple pie with a warm cinnamon apple filling that tastes like a mini dessert pocket.
⭐ Pro tips
- Seal edges well or filling will leak
- Don’t overfill
- Let filling cool before stuffing
- Medium heat = crispy outside, cooked inside
If you want, I can also make:
- McDonald’s-style fried apple pie copycat 🍎
- baked version (less oily)
- or caramel apple pie filling upgrade 🍯
