Over the weekend I discovered Sally’s Baking Addiction. If you haven’t spent hours drooling over and making her recipes GO. (after you read this post of course!) She has a little something for everyone from vegan, no bake to gluten free. And yes, you can even search for recipes by ingredient. Love that!

The recipe I tried first was for my dear husband who has a bigger sweet tooth than I do. Though I liked her original pop tart recipe, it was way too sweet for both of us. I guess after recently reading about what sugar does to your brain and body, I was determined to try the recipe again and come up with a variation of it so that we could have a sweet treat that we both would enjoy.

 
I used Sally’s recipe for the pastry and I recommend that you make this first so that it can be cooling while the oven heats up to 350 degrees and you peel your apples/mix your filling. I also recommend returning it to the freezer/refrigerator when it gets too warm to work with and grabbing the other divided dough to roll out.

DIRECTIONS

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees
• in large bowl mix pastry dough together thoroughly
• divide dough and wrap in plastic, place dough in refridgerator to cool or in the freezer to cool quickly (set timer for 15 min)
• wash, peel and core apples. I recommend dicing them into smaller chunks
• Add apples to filling and setting aside while you work with the dough (add 1 additional tbsp of flour if it gets to watery)
• on floured, flat surface roll out dough until you have the thickness you desire. (I went a little thinner than pie crust)
• using your Pampered Chef Cut-n-Seal, cut out two circles for every pocket pie you want to make
• arrange circles on your cookie sheet and cover with an egg wash
• spoon out apple filling into the center of the circle
• before placing second circle on top of the first and filling, gently cut four slits (you may need to gently tug a bit to make sure edges are aligned)
• center your cut and seal over the two layers and seal
• cover top with egg wash
• bake at 350 degrees for 15-20 minutes or until golden brown

TOOLS

• two mixing bowls (one for dough, one for apples/filling
• sharp knife
• Pampered Chef Cut-n-Seal
• rolling pin
• cookie sheet
• peeler
• plastic wrap

PASTRY*

• 2 and 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 and 1/4 TSP salt
• 6 TBSP unsalted butter, chilled and cubed
• 3/4 cup vegetable shortening, chilled*
• 1/2 cup ice water

FILLING

• 1/2 cup dark or light brown sugar
• 2 TSP ground cinnamon
• 1 TBSP all-purpose flour
• 8 apples cored, peeled and diced (I used gala but you could also use cameo or cortland apples)

EGG WASH

• 1 egg beaten
• 1 TSP milk or water

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If you want to have some fun and explore making this recipe with a variety of apples, Epicurious has a great visual guide.