They’re buttery, they're crumbly, with loads of filling... I think we’re gonna have
these with vanilla ice cream. Oh I think George is ready. Hi Bold Bakers! When I see food
trends like Starbucks drinks or Disneyland Dole Whip pop up, I like to put my big and
bold spin on it and show you how you can make it at home. Now that we're heading into the
fall, my favorite time of year, I'm starting to see a lot of McDonald's Apple pies, so
we're going to give that a shot today. I'm going to show you how you can make your very
own at home. So let's talk apples. Use whatever Apple is good for cooking in your country.
In the United States I use Granny Smith apples, in Ireland we use Bramley Apples. Whatever is good for
you. We’re going to add a chopped apple into our pot. We're going to follow that with
a little bit of Brown sugar. Now, if you don't have Brown sugar like I didn't this morning,
you can easily make it at home. I have a recipe on my website is just sugar and treacle.
We're going to add in a little bit of cinnamon. Salt. Little bit of lemon juice. And a big
knob of butter. When everything is in the pot head over to the stove. So what we want
to do here is let the apples cook. It's going to take around 10 to 15 minutes over medium
heat. Just let them cook down simmer up, and get nice and soft. So as it’s simmering
away, I let some of this liquid evaporate just to make it kind of thick but also what
I do is here I have a little bit of cornstarch mixed with some water and I’m going to pour
that in and stir and immediately you see a thicken up the sauce and that's what we want.
We want to have a nice thick kind of Apple pie filling so that our handpies are lovely
and moist and not dry. So let that simmer for a minute or two just to let the cornstarch
activate. Lovely, now I'm gonna turn off the heat, bring it over here, let it cool
down and we're gonna get started on our pastry. So now for the pastry we are going
to use puff pastry. Now you can use a good quality store bought puff pastry or you can
make my easy puff pastry. It's super easy to make you fold in frozen butter and you
got lovely flaky pastry. So that's what I have here. Definitely check out that video 'cause it's
going to be one that you're going to want to add to your repertoire. So actually what
I'm going to do is roll my pastry to an eighth of an inch thick because that's definitely
thick enough, so everybody, an eighth of an inch. Now, once you've done that we
are going to cut out with a little ruler 4 1/2 inch squares by 6 inches. And all
of this information is on my website as well. I know it seems like really big squares, but
we're going to fold over the pastry and then it's going to make sense. So cut out as
many as you can. The good thing about my puff pastry is that with the end I do roll it up
again and it's perfectly fine. So now that we have our rectangles, I have some egg wash
here and you just want to brush that around the border of your pastry. Because this is
what is going to stick her pastry together and keep it sealed. So here I have my filling,
it has cooled down, It's nice and thick. I'm going to go and put that on one side of the
rectangle of pastry like so. I always put too much filling in but you know what there's
nothing worse than having too much pastry and too little filling, so I try and get as
much in there as I can. Then we're going to fold over the pastry. So I would say no
more than two teaspoons of filling 'cause as you can see it's kind of popping out the
sides of mine, but you know what I'm OK with that now because when you go to eat it's full
of fillings. You've got a lot of feeling a lot of pastry as well so that's my favorite.
With a fork, we're just going to pierce the two pieces of pastry together. You know, these
are rustic little hand pies, so don't worry if they're not absolutely perfect because
we're actually going to cover them in cinnamon sugar and they're going to look beautiful
regardless. So once you've done that a few times, keep on rolling out all your dough
and filling them until you have no more pastry left. Lastly, we're going to egg wash them,
dust them in cinnamon sugar and cut some slits in the top so steam can come out. These apple
pies are looking pretty legit. So now it's time to get them into the oven and all the
baking instructions are on my website. These pies look like legit McDonald's pies. I am
thrilled. Let's see if they taste like them. Kevin come on in. I am here. OK. We're here’.
I’m going to cut off a little bit. Be careful because it's really hot, OK, so thank you.
Oh Gem. Flaky crust, awesome filling, I've had my share of McDonald's Apple pies let
me tell you these are way better. Buttery, flakey, full of filling, oh yeah, absolutely
delicious. I think we're gonna have these later on with some vanilla ice cream. That
sounds good. Yeah, I think Georgie want some maybe not yet buddy, but, yeah these are
amazing Gem. Yeah, try them out, put them on your fall baking list, and we'll see
you again really soon. Thanks guys. Really good so, flakey. What do you think buddy?
You ready? You waving to everybody?