When a dessert is this quick, easy, and delicious it becomes a family favorite!
You can use homemade biscuit dough, homemade pie dough, or pick up a can of biscuits in the refrigerated section of your store. Keep it simple!
❤️ Why you'll love this recipe
Traditional recipes are delicious but take time that most of us don't have on a regular basis. This fried pie recipe uses easy to find convenience foods to cut the prep time down to 5 minutes!
🧾 Ingredients
A couple of quick notes about ingredients for this easy fried pies recipe.
The bourbon or lemon juice is completely optional - and you'll want to match the liquid you use to your fruit filling. For example:
- Blueberry pie filling with Amaretto
- Apple or peach pie filling with bourbon
You can also use ginger ale. The point of adding this small amount of liquid is to give more flavor to the pie filling which is sometimes a little flat and bland.
Also, I use peanut oil because it's light and has a high smoke point. If there are allergies or you prefer to use something else any light frying oil will work.
🔪 Instructions
Note: This is an overview of the instructions. The full instructions are in the recipe card below.
- Chop large slices of fruit into bite sized pieces.
- Roll out each biscuit to the size of a saucer, about 1/8-inch thick or a little less.
- Add about two tablespoons of fruit pie filling to the center of each biscuit round.
- Fold over and press with the tines of the fork to seal.
- Heat the oil in a heavy skillet until it's about 300 degrees. Add a couple of the pies at a time.
- Fry for about 3 minutes, or until golden, then turn and fry on the other side until golden.
- Drain on paper towel.
- Brush the top with melted butter and add, butter side down, to the cinnamon and sugar mixture. Brush the other side with melted butter then turn to coat the whole pastry in cinnamon and sugar.
- Serve warm.
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💭 Tips
Expert Tip: Be sure not to crowd the pan when frying - the oil will cool down too much and the fried pies will be greasy.
- You can bake these if you prefer. You lose some of the character of southern fried pies but they're still yummy. Bake at 375F for 10-15 minutes.
- Any kind of canned pie filling will work, including lemon or chocolate.
- Do not leave the pies on paper towel for too long when you take them out of the fryer. You want to brush with butter and then quickly dredge them in the cinnamon and sugar mixture.
- If you aren't eating them right away let them cool on a rack so the bottoms don't get soggy.
- Some people prefer a glaze on their fried pies. Just mix powdered sugar with enough milk to make a thick glaze and spoon it over the hot pies while they are on a rack.
👩🏻🍳 FAQs
Here are the most commonly asked questions about this recipe. If you don't find the answer to yours here leave a comment below or email me - I'll get back to you as soon as I can!
If you haven't eaten them within a couple of hours then you should cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate. You can refrigerate these for up to 4 days.
You can freeze the fruit filled ones for sure! Wrap the pies in aluminum foil and place in a freezer container.
You can freeze them for up to a month.
Reheat, wrapped in foil, in a 350 degree oven for 30 minutes or until an insta-read thermometer shows 200F when pushed into the center of a pie.
Don't coat the pies with sugar or glaze before freezing.
Hand pies are usually baked.
At some point in my life I decided to stop being the best at every. single. thing.
I decided that done was better than perfect.
I decided that making quick and easy fried pies for my family to enjoy regularly was better than making my original recipe (which takes a couple of hours - but as my 17 year old says... it SMACKS) once a year.
So I begin cutting corners and creating shortcuts - because I want to enjoy making memories with my family - not watching as they enjoy making memories without me.
I hope you love these as much as I do.
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📖 Recipe
Fried Pie Recipe
Equipment Needed
Ingredients
- 1 cup fruit pie filling, your favorite
- 1 tablespoon bourbon, or lemon juice
- 8 biscuits, unbaked
- 1/4 cup flour, for rolling
- 1/2 cup peanut oil, or any light oil for frying
- 1/2 cup butter, melted
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 2 tablespoons cinnamon
Instructions
- Taste the fruit pie filling and add a little sugar if needed for taste.
- Stir in the bourbon or lemon juice, if desired.
- Chop the filling into smaller, bite sized pieces.
- Set aside.
- Dust the countertop with the flour.
- Roll out each biscuit to the size of a saucer, about 1/8-inch thick or a little less.
- Add about two tablespoons of fruit pie filling to the center of each biscuit round.
- Fold over and press with the tines of the fork to seal.
- Poke a small hole in the top for the steam to escape.
- Heat the oil in a heavy skillet until it's about 300 degrees.
- Add a couple of the pies at a time. The oil should sizzle when you add them - don't overcrowd the skillet or the oil will cool down too much.
- Fry for about 3 minutes, or until golden, then turn and fry on the other side until golden.
- Drain on absorbent paper.
- Brush the top with melted butter.
- Add, butter side down, to the cinnamon and sugar mixture.
- Brush the other side with melted butter then turn to coat the whole pastry in cinnamon and sugar.
- Serve warm.
Notes
- Save time by using canned biscuits from the refrigerated section of your store.
- Be sure not to crowd the pan when frying - the oil will cool down too much and the fried pies will be greasy.
- You can bake these if you prefer. You lose some of the character of fried pies but they're still yummy. Bake at 375F for 10-15 minutes.
- Any kind of canned pie filling will work in these, including lemon or chocolate.
- Do not leave the pies on paper towel for too long when you take them out of the fryer. You want to brush with butter and then quickly dredge them in the cinnamon and sugar mixture.
- If you aren't eating them right away let cool on a rack so the bottoms don't get soggy.
- Some people prefer a glaze on their fried pies. Just mix powdered sugar with enough milk to make a thick glaze and spoon it over the hot fried pies while they are on a rack.
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