FREEZER FOODS FRIDAY - Guest Post Kirsty Girl

Today I want to introduce you to my bloggy-fried, Kirsty.  We met on Blog Frog.  She's such a cutie pie and... vegan.   I'll admit I'm not a vegan,  not even vegetarian, although I do love veggies... I just like meat too.  LOL.  I became interested in vegan/vegetarian ever since the episode of Cupcake Wars when the winner was a totally vegan baker.  I'm thinking... oh man, you've got to be kidding me.  No way is that going to taste like anything other than paste.  But when she wow'ed the judges every time, I thinking to myself.  I have GOT to check this out!  When Kirsty said she had an idea for vegan apple pies, and said they were mini's I had to know more.   These are the cutest little things!!!  I'm excited to present to you something totally different for Freezer Foods Friday and expand our horizons if you will...  So without further delay, let me introduce you to Kirsty of Kirsty Girl

I have been very excited about this post because it is my first ever guest post! So I hope you’ll all go easy on me. I came across this blog on Blog Frog and found that the lovely Jeanette was more than eager to accept a guest post of any recipe I chose. As a vegan I figured that people would be less likely to accept a recipe from me.. but thankfully Jeanette was very open minded. Please don’t be turned off by this being a vegan recipe. You yourself, probably eat vegan all the time and didn’t even know it.

I have to say I absolutely love the idea of Freezer Foods Friday.. Freezer foods are ridiculously wonderful and my favourite part of the recipe I am sharing with you today is that it can be left frozen for up to one month. There’s nothing better than wanting some dessert after dinner and all you have to do is grab it out of the freezer and put it in the oven for a rich, gooey, hot apple pie.

This recipe will make 4 individual apple pies.

Kirsty's Little Apple Pies


Ingredients:
4 apples, peeled, cored, chopped (Usually apple pie recipes call for Granny Smith apples, but I just use whatever I have on hand, easy and just as yummy).
1/3 cup caster sugar
1 tbs lemon juice (If you’re lucky like me, you’ll just have to run outside and grab a lemon off your tree for this one).
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
1 tbs cornflour
2 sheets of frozen ready-rolled shortcrust pastry, thawed
soy milk (or anything just to brush the pastry with, you could probably do without anything even, if needed).

Ice cream, to serve (Vegan of course, the apple pies are sweet enough to do without the ice cream though, it’s just an added bonus. These apple pies are far from dry, so you won’t need it).

1. Place apple, caster sugar, lemon juice, cinnamon and 2 tbs cold water in a saucepan over medium-high heat. Cook for 4 minutes or until apple has softened.

2. Combine cornflour and 1 tbs cold water in a small bowl. Add to apple mixture and bring to the boil. Remove from heat. Cool.

3. Lightly grease 4 holes of a 3/4 cup capacity muffin pan. Cut out your pasty (I use a 14cm round, serrated pie cutter for my base, and an 8cm round egg ring for the top. But you can use anything you have handy, so long as you have a base around 12-14cm and a top around 8-10cm).

4. Line holes with larger pastry rounds. Fill with apple mixture. Brush edges with soy milk. Top with smaller pastry rounds. Brush with soy milk. Sprinkle with sugar.

5. If you don’t want to freeze your pies and want them right away, you can skip this step. Wrap muffin pan with foil. Freeze for up to 1 month.

6. Preheat oven to 180°C/160°C fan-forced (Yes, I’m an Aussie). And for you Americans that’s 356°F/320°F fan-forced, according to Google.

7. Place muffin pan on a baking tray (I’ve never had any trouble with spillage myself but better safe than sorry) and bake for 45 minutes or until golden and heated through. Check after 30 minutes to make sure it’s not getting too brown.

8. Serve and eat! YUM

Hope you decide to make my apple pies! Believe me, you won’t be sorry. And thank you so much to Jeanette for the opportunity to do my first ever guest post!

Kirsty – Please stop by and say “Hello” @ my blog Kirsty Girl.