Salted Caramel Apple Hand Pies

Salted Caramel Apple Hand Pies are a delicious, individually-portioned dessert. These pies have a tender, flaky all-butter pie dough and are filled with cinnamon apples and rich caramel. There is nothing like warm apple pie during the fall. Except maybe individual caramel apple hand pies that you don’t have to share.

Filled and topped with rich, buttery salted caramel sauce. This salted caramel takes apple pies to the next level. Why have normal apple pie when you can have it filled and drizzled with buttery caramel? You can use your favorite baking apples in this recipe, although I think a combination of sweet-tart apples work best. I used Fuji and Golden Delicious because that’s what I picked that day. Jonagolds, Honeycrisp, Granny Smith, Braeburn, Cortland, and Gala would also work well. These pies are positively perfect with vanilla bean ice cream! Serve with a cup of coffee.

Ingredients:

FOR THE PIE DOUGH

2½ cups all purpose flour

½ teaspoon salt

1 tablespoon sugar

2 sticks cubed butter, very cold

6–8 tablespoons of ice water

FOR THE FILLING

3 apples, cubed (a mix of sweet-tart apples such as Golden Delicious, Fuji, Jonagolds)

Juice of half a lemon

1 tablespoon flour

1/4 cup brown sugar

1 teaspoon cinnamon

1/4 teaspoon nutmeg

1/4 teaspoon allspice

1 teaspoon vanilla

1/2 cup salted caramel sauce

FOR THE SALTED CARAMEL SAUCE

1 cup sugar

4 tablespoons unsalted butter, room temperature

1/2 cup heavy cream, warmed

1 teaspoon flaky sea salt

TO ASSEMBLE

Egg wash