Mini Lime Pies With Glazed Berries Recipes

GRAPE-GLAZED FRESH BERRY MINI PIES

Steps:

• 1. Preheat the oven to 350°F. 2. Unroll the pie crusts. Cut four 5-inch rounds out of each crust for 12 rounds total. Reserve the scraps for another use. Press each round against the bottom and up the sides of a muffin cup in a muffin tin; you should have a 1/2 inch rim of crust. Decoratively crimp the rims around the tops of the muffin cups. 3. Bake for 7 minutes. Use a spoon to gently press the any puffing spots of crust flat. Continue baking until golden brown and set, 5 to 7 minutes longer. Cool completely in the pan on a wire rack. 4. Meanwhile, pour Farmer's Pick 100% Juice Concord Grape into a small saucepan and zest the lime into the juice. Stir in the sugar. Boil until reduced to a syrupy consistency, about 1/3 cup. Cool to room temperature, stirring occasionally. Squeeze 1 teaspoon lime juice into the syrup. Gently toss with the berries until well-coated. 5. Remove the pie crusts from the muffin tin. Fill each cup with berries. Serve immediately.

MINI LIME PIES WITH GLAZED BERRIES

Steps:

• Make lime curd:
• Whisk together eggs, sugar, and lime juice in a 2-quart heavy saucepan until combined. Add butter and cook over moderately low heat, whisking constantly, until curd is thick enough to hold marks of the whisk and first bubbles appear on surface, 8 to 10 minutes. Immediately pour through a fine-mesh sieve into a bowl, discarding solids. Cool to room temperature, stirring occasionally. Stir in zest, then chill, covered, at least 1 hour.
• Make pastry rounds:
• Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 350°F. Line 1 baking sheet with parchment paper.
• Roll out dough into a 15-inch round (pastry will be thin) on a lightly floured surface with a lightly floured rolling pin. Cut out 18 rounds with cookie cutter and arrange 1/2 inch apart on lined baking sheet. Prick each round several times with a fork, then cover rounds with another sheet of parchment and weight with second baking sheet.
• Bake until rounds are pale golden, 15 to 20 minutes. Remove top baking sheet and parchment and transfer rounds to racks to cool.
• Sprinkle each round evenly with 1/2 teaspoon superfine sugar and carefully caramelize with a blowtorch (sugar burns easily).
• Make glazed fruit and assemble desserts:
• Boil confectioners sugar, water, and lime juice in a 12-inch heavy skillet over moderate heat, stirring occasionally, until slightly thickened, about 2 minutes.
• Remove from heat and add berries, gently tossing to coat. (There will be just enough to glaze berries; they will give off a small amount of juice as they cool.)
• Cool berries 5 minutes.
• Put 1 tablespoon of curd on each of 6 plates. Stack 3 rounds on each plate, layering rounds with some of curd and glazed berries, then drizzle plates with some syrup.