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Traditional fruit pies are too large for singles, couples and many modern families. Make dessert, quick and easy, delicious and hot with this pie recipe for one or for two.
This hot pie takes 10 minutes to prepare, even with making special effort to make it aesthetically beautiful. After baking and cooling, you can eat it in an hour. If this is too long, try fruit crumble for one, which takes only one minute to prepare, 30 minutes in the oven. Both are great choices to make any night of the week for a homemade hot dessert that fills your home with delicious aromas.
The Need for Dessert Recipes for One or Two
A traditional dessert recipe, in my house, is both dangerous and sad! Dangerous because I know I will eat too much, and it won’t feel great afterwards. Sad because I won’t finish it all before it goes bad, and I may need to waste good food or use one of my adaptive hacks.
I have a whole blog page about extending the life of food with tips like how to reuse foods like brownies and cookies as future cheesecake pie crusts.
Why Recipes are so Darn Large
Traditional cooking and baking recipes are made for an age of huge families eating all together. And pie pans, cake pans, tray bakes are all designed for those larger scale recipes. That is just not the reality for most people today.
Singles, couples and small families are sorely lacking recipes and baking pans that meet their needs. Even within modern large families today, traditional desserts have limitations. Dietary differences, picky eaters, or taste preferences mean that having smaller desserts today is much more practical.
You need to get pans the right size. Keep it simple, start with a 5 to 6 inch (12 to 15 cm) oven safe gratin dish.
Perfect dish for pie and desserts. Exceptional for right size baked dinners – lasagne, au gratin potatoes, chicken pot pie, cauliflower cheese. Great for cooking up meals and sides just right for one or two or individual meals. Its the key investment in your modern lifestyle of delicious, beautiful food for one or two people households.
I’ve had it! So, Recipes for One and Two are Now Part of My Mission
I know from personal experience. I’m single; love to cook and bake; appreciate a delicious, hot dessert. Yet I’ve had to make my own recipes in a world thousands if not millions of dessert recipes.
Okay, so I found a couple recipes, but I have had to read through all sorts of “One isn’t the Loneliest Number,” “Having Dessert Alone is a Luxury” to somehow justify that it is okay to eat a dessert alone. 🙄 Seriously? Give me a break! These do not read like recipes written by singles or couples for singles and couples. These are the same traditional recipe writers sizing down their recipes to meet a new demographic. 🤑
Food is Love. Desserts are Passion
Enough of the rant. Cooking and baking is about love, caring, enjoyment. And this super easy hot pie recipe is made in that spirit of love, caring and enjoyment, for a single person by a single person. It is large enough to give two nights of delicious, fresh dessert for one. Thus, it is also great for two to share. In the right circumstance, it could be a great romantic dessert to share. 😘
“Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.”
Harriet Van Horne
As I write this, Valentine’s Day is in sight. ❤️ Fabulous dessert to make easily and enjoy hot on that night. Yes, for passionate couples to share, and also for singles to enjoy as a sweet treat.
How to Video – Quick, Easy, Delicious, Gorgeous Aesthetic
See just how easy this pie for one is to make. Use one readymade pie crust for the pie base and make a quick, pretty lattice top crust.
Quick and Easy Dessert Recipe, yet Beautifully Made
This pie for one or two is so easy using readymades. This makes it foolproof to make any night. Focus on the more important parts of a date night, rather than worrying about a tricky dessert recipe. Make this on a weeknight to treat yourself with a fresh, hot pie. Don’t scrimp on the top tips to make is extra special and beautiful to present – those are surprisingly easy, too.
Quick and Easy Pie for One or Two
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 sheet Pie dough Readymade or 1/2 recipe
- 1 can Pie filling Cherry pie is depicted
- 1 large egg (optional)
- 1 Tbsp Large crystal sugar or decorating sugar (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 F / 200 C
- Roll out sheet of pie dough (readymade or homemade) to 2 mm / 1/16 inch
- Place small pie dish upside down on the dough, cut circle 3 cm / 1 ¼ inch around the top of the pie dish
- Turn pie dish over, and place pie dough circle inside the dish, making sure the dough is tucked in and letting the excess hang evenly over the edge
- Slice the remaining dough pieces into strips for the top lattice about 1½ cm / ⅔ inch wide
- Pour fruit pie filling (canned or recipe from Fruit Crumble) into pie dough lined pie dish
- Place strips of pie dough on top in a lattice pattern
- Crimp edges of pie dough up to form a tall crust and sealing on the top lattice
- Brush egg (whisked) on the top of the pastry lattice as an egg wash
- Sprinkle decorative sugar on top of egg wash
- Bake for 20 to 30 minutes, depending on depth of pie filling. Fruit pie filling will be bubbling or Custard type fillings will be set with small jiggle in center.
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Success! Quick, Easy, Beautiful Recipe for One or Two and You Want More
Now you want more delicious desserts and meals that have recipes the right size for you. Next, try the Fruit Crumble for One recipe which takes 1 minute to prep to get a delicious hot dessert for one, any time. Check out more Recipes on Ready and Thriving Recipe Roundup.
Make sure to get the right kitchen equipment. Having the right size pan will make it so much easier to make delicious meals and desserts, just the right size.
Beyond recipes, learn kitchen hacks to make cooking for one or two much easier, smarter and avoiding food waste. Bookmark Extend Food Life page and even easier Subscribe to Ready and Thriving YouTube channel to get great food hacks for singles, couples, modern families and anyone who wants to avoid wasting food and live a more sustainable life.
