Ingredients

• 1 portion of pie dough, or you could use store-bought frozen pastry sheets

For the filling:

• 3 small Granny Smith apples, 2 McIntosh apples, peeled, cored and chopped finely
• 1/4 cup caster sugar
• 1 and 1/4 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 2 tablespoons lime juice or the juice of 1 lime
• 1 tablespoon cornflour (cornstarch)

For the streusel:

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 cup quick-cooking oats
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1/2 cup caster sugar
• 3/4 cup melted butter
• A pinch of salt

1. 1Make your pie dough. You can use this recipe — halve the ingredients.
2. 2Preheat the oven to 176ºC (350ºF).
3. 3In a pot, add the chopped apples, sugar, cinnamon, lime juice and cornflour, and cook this mixture for 15 minutes, until the apples soften and the mixture turns thick. Set aside.
4. 4In a bowl, mix the flour, oats, sugars, and salt. Pour the melted butter over it and use your hand to mix it all together.
5. 5Once you are set with your crust, filling and streusel, take out your muffin pans.
6. 6Cut out 2-inch circles, or circles big enough to fit in your muffin well, with the help of a glass rim or cup, and place them in the muffin wells.
7. 7To each of these pastry mini-circles add about a tablespoon of the apple(sauce) filling.
8. 8Top them all, add a heaped tablespoon of the streusel to each muffin well and gently pat them down with your fingertips.
9. 9Bake them for 17 minutes.
10. 10Serving: Cool the Dutch apple pie cookies before you serve them. You could top them off with whipped cream if you want to. You could warm them up before serving if you wish to, but only slightly or you could end up cooking the cookie further (since it’s mighty small)!