Recipe: Appetizing Ladybirds Toffee , Pear , Apple and or Strawberry Pies

Ladybirds Toffee , Pear , Apple and or Strawberry Pies.

To cook Ladybirds Toffee , Pear , Apple and or Strawberry Pies you need 17 ingredients and just 16 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients

1. Prepare of sheet sweet short crust pastry - 1 sheet pastry makes two small pie bases and lids.
2. You need of pears - peeled , cored and quartered.
3. You need of apples - peeled , cored and quartered.
4. You need of lemon juice.
5. Prepare of extra strawberries - stalks removed and sliced thinly ..
6. You need of water.
7. You need of sugar.
8. You need of brown sugar.
9. Prepare of water.
10. You need of white sugar.
11. Prepare of brown sugar.
12. You need of cinnamon stick.
13. Prepare of s.
14. It's of cocoa powder.
15. You need of -10 strawberries - stalks removed and cut into thin slices.
16. Prepare of extra sugar.
17. Prepare of extra cocoa powder.

Ladybirds Toffee , Pear , Apple and or Strawberry Pies step by step

1. Peel and core the pears and cut them into quarters them drizzle with a little lemon juice ..
2. In a small saucepan , on high heat , add the water , white sugar and the brown sugar and stir until sugar is dissolved . Bring to the boil and boil for a minute then turn heat down to simmer ..
3. Once liquid is simmering , add the pear quarters and cook , simmering , for about 5-8 minutes or until just tender , remove pears from the liquid and set aside to cool . Once pears have cooled , slice them thinly ..
4. Leaving the liquid syrup to simmer for about 10-15 minutes or until liquid is reduced dramatically and syrup has thickened , remove from heat then drizzle a little over the cooked sliced pears and leave to cool . Leave remaining syrup to cool until needed again ..
5. Peel and core the apples then cut them into quarters and drizzle with a little lemon juice and set aside till needed.
6. In a small saucepan , over high heat , add 2 cups of water along with 1/2 cup of white sugar along with 1/2 cup of brown sugar along with the cinnamon stick and the cloves and stir till sugar is dissolved then bring to the boil and boil for a minute then turn heat down to simmer and add apple quarters and simmer for about 8-10 minutes or until just tender ..
7. Once tender remove the apples from the heat and set aside to cool , once cooled slice the apple quarters thinly and drizzle with a little of the prepared syrup from the pears and set aside to cool completely until needed ..
8. Destalk the strawberries and then thinly slice and drizzle with a little lemon juice and set aside till needed.
9. Preheat the oven to 190°C . Lightly grease 6 pie flan tins , them sprinkle with sugar to coat them before filling them ..
10. Using the pastry sheets , cut out 6 bases to fit you pie flans and cut out 6 lids to fit tops ..
11. Carefully mould the prepared pastry discs into the prepared pie flans and set aside to fill ..
12. Taking the prepared cooked , cooled pears and evenly spoon them into two of the pie pastry cases and add a little extra reduced syrup , them place a pastry lid ontop and press the pastry together to seal . And dust with a little cocoa powder to the sealed lid ..
13. Taking the cooked , cooled apples evenly spoon them into two of the pie pastry cases , then place one of the sliced up strawberries , per pie case , ontop of the apples in the pastry cases and then add a little extra reduced syrup to the top , then place a pastry lid ontop and press the pastry together to seal . And dust with a little cocoa powder to the top sealed lid ..
14. Taking the other 8-10 slice up strawberries and evenly spoon them into the last two pastry cases , then sprinkle with the teaspoon of cocoa powder , them place the lids ontop and press the pastry together to seal . And finally dust with a little cocoa powder to the top pastry lid ..
15. Place prepared filled pies into the Preheated oven and cool for 30-35 minutes or until golden . Once cooked remove from heat and let cool slightly before removing them from the pie tins ..
16. Once cooled slightly remove from pie tins and either serve hot with toppings of your choice , or let cool completely and serve with toppings of your choice . Enjoy . :-) ..