Mini Fruit Pies

Summer is comming and thx god my father has a garden.

when he comes from work on friday hes practical in his garden

cleaning it and picking fruits. Right now we gaining fresh

cherries & strawberries. This year we have to much. My mom is

making marmelade on high and me I'm  tried to make pies out

of my fresh fruits. I decided to make pie. They don't look prof

but like mini pies.

Let's go!!!

Mini Cherry Pies

for the filling:

about 700 g fresh fruits (I used cherries)

about 1 cups of sugar

about 4 tbsp cornstarch (I used normal food starch)

a dash of vanilla or lemon juice

for the dough:

200 g sugar

200 g of butter

300 g flour

a dash salt

a dash vanilla (or a little package vanilla sugar)
extra grease & flour for

a muffin tray for 12 muffins

or take shortcrust mix from your local market and prepare
or pie crust stuff

Preparation:

Pitt your cherries, place cherries, sugar, vanilla, starch in a heavy-bottomed pan.

Heat on medium until cherries begin to give their liquid. Bring to a boil but stir

constantly. Reduce the heat until cherry mixture beginns to thicken.

Allow to cool.

Heat your oven to 175°C.

For the dough combine sugar, butter, flour, salt and vanilla in a bol together

until you get "streusel". Set aside.

Grease your muffin tray ad dust with flour. Take 2/3 of your dough make 12 balls

and fill your muffin molds. Press and form little "baskets". Fill with your cooled

fruit filling. Cover with the rest of the dough as strips, streusel or your favorite

cookie shape, but leave holes for the steam.

Bake the pies until the top turnes golden brown. Let the pies cool completly and

Enjoy.

 

The rest fillng I stored in my freezer

11.06.2012: today I made strawberry pie filling. I had to add 1 tbsp more starch for thickness. It turned out really nice.