Wholewheat Mini Pears Pie Palm Sugar

Wholewheat Mini Pears Pie with Cinnamon and Palm Sugar

12 April 2011 37 Comments

The unexpected guests who were allergic to cream, condensed milk & eggs, made me bake these mini pears pie, and I am delighted I did the same! Else dessert is normally a frosted cake or fresh fruits with cream. And this time I thought of making a pie with pears instead of the ubiquitous Apples and bake them in individual mini tarts. Quite easy to assemble, these Mini Pears Pie also give more crust to bite upon than the single crust pies.

The uneven look of the pie crust is due to the hard dough which almost crumbled when I lined the moulds. But then the result is a very delightful pie with a crisp base and a soft filling of red pear. Cinnamon and palm sugar combo give the extra flavors and healthy touch to this delicious pie .

Red pears & palm sugar

Ingredients;

(6 small pie crusts)

For the Crust;

1 cup wholewheat flour
2 tbsp All purpose flour
A pinch of salt
2 tsp sugar (optional)
1/4 tsp. baking powder
2 tbsp. cold butter
3-4 ice cubes

For the Filling;

1 large Pear
1/2 cup Palm sugar
1 tsp. cinnamon powder
1 tbsp wholewheat flour

Crumble the flour with ice cubes

Method: Take a large vessel and pour the wholewheat flour and the all purpose flour into it. Add salt, sugar and the baking powder to it. Mix all the ingredients well using a fork. Add the butter and mix the flour using finger tips till the flour resembles bread crumbs. Add the ice cubes and gently rub in the flour till the crumbles make a hard dough. Do not overdo the rubbing part.

Cover the dough with a cling film and refrigerate for half an hour.

ready to go in the oven..

Take out the dough and roll it on a plain surface dusted with flour. The dough will be quite hard to roll out and break often. You can roll the dough and cut into 6 rounds or pinch 6 balls from the dough and then roll it in small circle. Grease the muffin mould and line each mould with these circles.

Adjust the shapes of the pie and fill all the cracks by pinching the dough together, the crust will come out as a perfect pie when baked.

Filling: Preheat the oven to 190°C for 10 minutes. Peel and chop the Pear into small pieces. Take another vessel and add the chopped pears, palm sugar, wholewheat flour and the cinnamon into it. Mix all the ingredients well.

The uneven pies with healthy filling..

Fill the above filling in each pie crust. Bake the Pears pie at 190°C for 30-40 minutes or till the base is slightly brown in color. Serve the Pears pie with fresh cream or dusted powder sugar.

Crispy base..

Though the shapes of the crust is uneven they are extremely crisp and gave a much needed crunchy bite for the soft inside of the pies.

Yum!!

The cinnamon flavor and the nutty palm sugar made these Pears pie irresistible for all the guests 🙂

Palm sugar and cinnamon are the winner!

Since the dough was a little difficult to manage, my children could not help me cut out the pies but did fill the pie cups with the filling! Such acts give them a sense of involvement and achievement of baking something of their own I suppose.

Scrumptious bite!

Now that I found out a perfect way to eat my pie, these mini pies are going to be in my favorite dessert lists for all the unexpected & expected guests and who could be you too 🙂

Notes;

These are single crust pies, you can add another cover using the same dough to make it double crusted pie.
Use full all purpose flour for a much lighter and crispy crust.
Try banana, apples, peaches and plums as a fruit filling.
Add a little milk to the dough if you find it hard to roll and make crusts.
Palm sugar gave a very earthy flavor and a lovely rich brown color to the Pears pie.

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37 Comments »

divya said:

wow….delicious….by seeing the picture im drooling here, u rock…as usual…

# 12 April 2011 at 5:09 pm

Joanne said:

I love these mini pies! Portion control at it’s finest!

# 12 April 2011 at 5:26 pm

Sumanjit Kaur Tripathy said:

Hey ! what are these Red pears ….? I dont think so have come across these in B’bay ? Can one use regular pears ? The hard ones ? Or the soft ( bagugosha ) one’s ?

# 12 April 2011 at 5:57 pm

sanjeeta kk said:

@Sumanjit, Yes you can use the other variety of pears. The red pears are the imported fruits and are very soft & sweet.

# 12 April 2011 at 7:48 pm

Panchpakwan said:

Wow so cute and yummy pies..:)

# 12 April 2011 at 7:40 pm

Barbara Bakes said:

I love mini pies. They do sound irresistible.

# 12 April 2011 at 8:27 pm

Pearl said:

Oh my, those mini pies look gorgeous! I might go and give it a try soon!
Much ♥,
Pearl
Sassy Chef Recipes and Reviews

# 12 April 2011 at 9:21 pm

Biren @ Roti n Rice said:

These mini pies look delicious! The contrast of the crunchy crust and the sweet, fragrant filling is delightful!

# 12 April 2011 at 11:32 pm

Alison @ Ingredients, Inc. said:

Those look really good! Thanks for stopping by my site so i could find yours

# 13 April 2011 at 1:34 am

Simone said:

Well you can most certainly make these when I come to dinner! It looks absolutely lovely!

# 13 April 2011 at 1:36 am

Mary said:

These sound delicious. I love mini pies and tarts. The larger ones are more than I can comfortably eat and the minis solve the problem. I hope you have a great day. Blessings…Mary

# 13 April 2011 at 4:48 am

Heather @girlichef said:

They are so adorable…and they sound delicious!

# 13 April 2011 at 4:53 am

peachkins said:

Oh my gosh, I love pears and they looks really fantastic!

# 13 April 2011 at 5:49 am

Tanvi said:

Very yummy looking and so healthy.I have not really baked with palm sugar but your recipe sounds so good.The crusts look so homey.I love the look of them.

# 13 April 2011 at 6:31 am

vaishali sabnani said:

love these pies..wud love to b u r guest ..anything karega for these yum pies!

# 13 April 2011 at 9:16 am

Priscilla - She's Cookin' said:

I love whole wheat crusts and the crunchy, wholesome flavor they add to a pie or tart. You definitely made the right choice with pear over the ubiquitous apple 🙂

# 13 April 2011 at 11:16 am

Maria @ Scandifoodie said:

They look delicious!!

# 13 April 2011 at 1:06 pm

sweetlife said:

mini pies!! how fun, love pears and cinnamon

sweetlife

# 13 April 2011 at 8:55 pm

Heavenly Housewife said:

What divine little morsels, the flavours you’ve used sound so delicious.
*kisses* HH

# 14 April 2011 at 3:25 am

Gera@SweetsFoodsBlog said:

Hi Sanjeeta,

Pears are one of my fav fruits, so these pies are ideal for my sweet tooth – love the cinnamon – of course 🙂

Cheers,

Gera

# 14 April 2011 at 10:49 am

Barbarab said:

Love the rustic shape of your mini pies, Sanjeeta! These look delicious. The crispy crust paired with the soft filling must be a wonderful mouthful.
I keep seeing recipes using palm sugar…I really must try it.

# 14 April 2011 at 5:17 pm