Easy Homemade Apple Turnovers
Ingredients
- 2 Cups flour
- 2/3 Cup COLD grated butter (or diced very small)
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 8 Tbsp cold water
- 2-4 Granny Smith apples (diced small)
- 1/2 Cup sugar
- 1.5 tsp cinnamon
- 4 Tbsp butter (cut into small pieces)
- 4 Tbsp flour
- 1 egg
- 1 Tbsp water
- cinnamon/sugar (for sprinkling on top)
- 1/2 Cup powdered sugar
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- milk (to thin icing to proper consistency for drizzling)
Instructions
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Start with the pie crust. Combine flour and salt in a bowl.
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Add in the butter, and stir gently with a pastry blender or a fork. Add water a tablespoon at a time, fluffing the flour/water with a fork to combine after each addition.
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Continue to add water until the dough almost comes together; there will still be some dry areas.
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Overturn dough onto a lightly floured countertop and very lightly press together into a ball of dough.
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Combine apple filling ingredients in a bowl.
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Divide pie crust dough in half and roll each half into a large rectangle. Use a pizza cutter to cut the dough into large squares.
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Put 2-3 tablespoons of the pie filling on one half of each square of pie dough, and fold over diagonally to create a triangular-shaped pocket.
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Crimp the edges with a fork. Brush the tops of the turnovers with an egg wash, and sprinkle with cinnamon-sugar mixture. Bake at 400* for 15 minutes.
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Remove to a wire rack to cool, then whisk together powdered sugar, vanilla, and milk to make a medium-thin icing to drizzle over the top of the turnovers.