Blueberry Cream Cheese Mini Pies Recipes

BLUEBERRY CREAM CHEESE PIE

Steps:

• Beat heavy cream in a bowl with an electric mixer or whisk until stiff peaks form.
• Beat cream cheese, confectioners' sugar, lemon juice, and vanilla extract in another bowl until smooth. Fold whipped cream into cream cheese mixture until evenly blended.
• Line pie crust with banana slices and spread cream cheese mixture over bananas. Spread blueberry pie filling over cream cheese mixture. Refrigerate at least 2 hours before serving.

CREAM CHEESE BLUEBERRY PIE

Steps:

• On a lightly floured surface, roll dough to a 1/8-in.-thick circle; transfer to a 9-in. pie plate. Trim to 1/2 in. beyond rim of plate; flute edge. Refrigerate 30 minutes. Preheat oven to 425°. , Line crust with a double thickness of foil. Fill with pie weights, dried beans or uncooked rice. Bake on a lower oven rack until edge is golden brown, 20-25 minutes. Remove foil and weights; bake until bottom is golden brown, 3-6 minutes longer. Cool on a wire rack. , In a small bowl, beat cream cheese and confectioners' sugar until smooth. Fold in whipped cream. Spread into pie shell. , In a large saucepan, combine sugar, cornstarch, water and lemon juice until smooth; stir in blueberries. Bring to a boil over medium heat; cook and stir 2 minutes or until thickened. Cool. Spread over cream cheese layer. Refrigerate until serving.

BLUEBERRY CREAM CHEESE MINI PIES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°.
• In medium bowl, mix flour, 1/4 cup sugar and 1 tablespoons lemon peel. Cut in butter, using pastry blender (or pulling 2 table knives through ingredients in opposite directions), until mixture looks like coarse crumbs. Set aside.
• In 2-qt. saucepan, mix 3/4 cup sugar and the cornstarch. Gradually stir in water. Cook and stir over medium heat about 10 minutes or until thickened. Add 1 1/2 cups of the blueberries. Reduce heat to low. Cover, cook about 10 minutes or until mixture returns to a boil. Stir in 1 teaspoons lemon peel and 1 tablespoons lemon juice. Add remaining blueberries; stir gently. Set aside.
• In small bowl, beat cream cheese filling ingredients until smooth; set aside.
• Separate dough into 8 biscuits. Split each biscuit in half to make 16 rounds. Press 1 biscuit round into each of the 16 ungreased regular-size muffin cups. Spoon 1 tablespoons cream cheese filling and 2 tablespoons blueberry filling into each biscuit-lined cup. Sprinkle each with about 1 tablespoons Streusel (cups will be full).
• Bake 18-22 minutes or until golden brown. Cool 5 minutes. Remove from muffin cups to cooling rack. Cool 10 minutes before serving.

BLUEBERRY-CREAM CHEESE HAND PIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Stir together cream cheese, 1/2 cup granulated sugar, lemon zest, and egg until smooth. Toss blueberries with 1/4 cup granulated sugar, lemon juice, and flour.
• Lay 1 dough round on a parchment-lined baking sheet and cut into quarters. Spoon 1 heaping tablespoon cream cheese mixture into center of each quarter. Spoon 2 tablespoons blueberry mixture on top. Brush edges with cream and bring opposite corners together to form triangles; trim if needed. Crimp edges to seal, brush tops with cream, and sprinkle with sanding sugar. Repeat with remaining dough round and fillings. Cut a small vent in each pie and bake until golden, 20 to 25 minutes, rotating sheets halfway through. Let cool completely on wire racks before serving.

MINI BLUEBERRY-MARSCARPONE PIES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Set out six 6-inch mini pie tins.
• Roll dough out and cut a circle to fit the bottom and sides of a pie tin. Place crust in the tin, then crimp the edges and poke the bottoms and sides with a fork. Continue, re-rolling the dough as necessary, to make remaining crusts.
• Place a round piece of parchment paper on top of each crust and add pie weights.
• Bake crusts in the preheated oven until edges are golden, 12 to 15 minutes. Carefully remove the weights and parchment paper. Let crusts cool to room temperature, about 30 minutes.
• While the crusts are cooling, blend 2 cups blueberries and lemon juice in a blender until smooth, 1 to 2 minutes. Transfer to a small saucepan and add gelatin. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until gelatin has completely dissolved, about 4 minutes. Transfer to a bowl and cool to room temperature, about 30 minutes.
• Stir mascarpone cheese and 1/4 cup sugar into the cooled blueberry mixture until well combined.
• Beat 1 1/2 cups heavy cream and 1 teaspoon vanilla with an electric mixer until foamy, about 30 seconds. Increase speed slowly to medium-high and gradually beat in remaining 1/4 cup sugar until stiff peaks form, about 1 minute. Gradually fold whipped cream mixture into the blueberry mixture. Spoon evenly into the cooled pie crusts.
• Cover and chill in the refrigerator for at least 4 hours, or overnight.
• When ready to serve, whip remaining remaining 1/2 cup heavy cream and 1/2 teaspoon vanilla together. Slowly mix in 1 tablespoon sugar until whipped cream forms.
• Top each pie with whipped cream and blueberries.

EASY MINI BLUEBERRY (OR CHERRY) PIES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350 degrees.
• Lightly spray 16 (2-inch wide) muffin tins with nonstick cooking spray.
• In a medium bowl combine flour, brown sugar and cinnamon.
• Using a pastry blended cut the cold butter until it resembles coarse crumbs; stir in nuts.
• Separate the dough into 8 biscuits.
• Split each biscuit in half to make 16 rounds.
• Using floured fingers flatten each to form a 4-inch round.
• Press each round into muffin cup.
• Spoon about 2 tablespoons pie filling into each biscuit-lined cup.
• Sprinkle each with about 2 tablespoons flour/cinnamon mix (cups will be full).
• Bake for 15-22 minutes or until golden brown.
• Cool 5 minutes, then remove from muffin tins.
• Place on a wire rack to cool.
• In a small bowl mix the 3 tablespoons sugar with 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon.
• Just before serving top each with whipped cream then sprinkle the cinnamon/sugar on top of the whipped cream.