Grab n Go Apple & Carrot Bites

These are great bite size snacks you can create with the same pastry dough I use for Apple and Carrot Pie.

Simply follow the pastry dough recipe below and also you can refer to the photos below to see how to shape these bites.

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INGREDIENTS

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For the Apple and Carrot Filling:

• 3 Large Apples (finely grated)

• 2 Carrots (finely grated)

• 150 g granulated sugar

• 100 g walnuts, crushed (optional)

• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

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For the pastry dough:

• 150 g unsalted butter (softened to room temperature)

• 100 g granulated sugar

• 100 ml canola or vegetable oil

• 130 g yoghurt

• 1 egg

• 500 g plain flour + more for kneading and flouring the surface

• 1 teaspoon baking powder ( same amount if you are doubling the recipe)

• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

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METHOD

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FILLING:

1. Place grated apples and carrots into a medium pot, add sugar and place it on low to medium heat. Cook the mixture stirring often, until all the liquid from apples and carrots disappear.

2. Remove pot from heat and add walnuts (optional) and ground cinnamon mix well and set aside to cool.

PASTRY:

1. Preheat your oven 170 C.

2. In the bowl of your stand mixer using paddle/creaming attachment or in a large bowl using a hand held mixer, beat the butter and sugar on high until creamy for 2 - 3 minutes.

3. Add oil, egg and yoghurt and mix on medium until well combined.

4. Mix in baking powder and vanilla and add flour one cup at a time. Mix on low speed until all the flour added. After all the flour mixed in, turn the speed on medium-high and beat the dough for further 2 minutes.

5. Flour your bench top and transfer your dough onto it. Knead dough with some extra flour.

6. Roll the pastry dough in a circle shape about 1/2cm thickness.

7. Using a pizza cutter or a knife, cut the pastry dough into triangles. Pretend you are cutting an extra large pizza into thin slices.

8. Place a teaspoon of prepared and cooked filling on the thick side of a triangle piece and ROLL.

9. Place rolled bites onto cookie tray lined with baking paper and bake until they are golden. Remove from the oven and cool the bites completely and sprinkle with icing sugar and serve.