Mini Blueberry Pies Recipe 445

BLUEBERRY MINI PIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
• If you decide to make your own mini-pie shapes: on a surface covered with flour, roll out your
• pie crust. Cut out 2-inch circles (with a cookie cutter) of the rolled-out dough and place each pie
• circle in a muffin tin.
• In a medium-sized bowl, mix blueberries, cornstarch, sugar, and lemon. Fill each pie crust with
• your blueberry mixture and dot it with butter.
• Bake for about 15 to 18 minutes or until pie crust is golden. Be sure the pies are cool and set
• before taking them out of the muffin tin.

MINI BERRY PIES

Steps:

• Unfold piecrusts on work surface. Using top of a 3-inch aluminum pie tin as a template, add 1/4 inch all around and use a knife to cut out seven rounds. Make a vent in center of each round with a 1/2-inch heart-shape cutter. Set crusts aside.
• Stir together berries, cornstarch, sugar, and lemon juice in a medium bowl. Divide mixture among seven 3-inch aluminum pie tins. Top each with a crust; use fingers to crimp sides so they stop just before edge of tin. Beat egg with 1 teaspoon water. Brush crusts lightly with egg wash; sprinkle with sugar. Freeze pies 20 minutes.
• Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Bake until golden and juices are bubbling, about 25 minutes. Let cool completely on a wire rack.

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.

MINI BLUEBERRY PIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400°F.
• Onto a flat work surface lightly dusted with flour, unfold one sheet of puffed pastry. Lightly dust the surface of the pastry with flour. With a rolling pin, lightly roll until square spreads to the size of a 12" x 12" square. Slice into eight evenly sized squares. Gently tuck squares into eight muffin cups, leaving the four corners of the squares loose at the top.
• In a medium bowl, combine blueberries, flour, sugar, vanilla and water.
• Spoon blueberry mixture into the pastry-lined muffin cups, filling each cup 2/3 full. Loosely fold the corners of the exposed pastry over the berry mixture.
• With a pastry brush, brush melted butter over each pie. Then dust each with sugar.
• Bake for 25 to 30 minutes or until the pie tops are lightly browned and puffed-crisp.
• Cool for 1-2 hours. Wait until the pies are sufficiently cool before removing from the pan. If necessary, use a butter knife to gently work around the outside of each to remove.