These delicious Fried Apple Pies are made with a thick and perfectly spiced homemade apple pie filling encased in a crispy, flaky, golden brown crust! A HANDHELD APPLE PIE DESSERT Do you remember the old fried apple pies at McDonald’s? When they actually deep fried them? This recipe will take you back to those days! Everything you love about an apple pie all squished into a handheld easy to eat treat. If you’re feeling like a glazed piece of pie, that’s an option. Maybe you just want a sugar and cinnamon dusted pie (like they did at McDonald’s), that’s an option too! So many ways to make this treat. These Fried Apple Pies are just what every apple pie lover needs! FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS:  Why did my pie filling leak out? Typically this happens if you overfill the hand pies with the pie filling. You really need to resist the urge to do that, otherwise, it makes it harder to seal them and that risks them overflowing. Be sure to double check the seal before you fry them to help prevent any spilling or burning. What do I do if my pie crust has started to warm up as I’m working with them? When the pie crust stops being cool to the touch, it can get harder to work with and tear easier as you handle them. Pop the filled pies on a plate and store them in the fridge while you are heating the oil.  What’s the best way to serve these? These pies are best eaten fresh. The cinnamon sugar dusted pies can be served warm. Store any leftovers in an airtight container for up to 2 days.  Can I make these in the Air Fryer? Yes, you can! Please see my recipe for Air Fryer Apple Hand Pies on instructions for how to do that. Can I make these Fried Apple Pies in the oven? Yes, it’s possible to make these in the oven. But, again, be warned that these won’t get as crispy as they would be if made frying in oil. They won’t look like the pictures below.Assemble your pies as normal, then place on a parchment lined baking sheet and bake at 400 F for 20 minutes. Start to check about 15 minutes into the baking process to ensure that they aren’t going to burn. If you need to, tent them with foil to prevent them from burning while still giving them some time to bake. You may need to flip while baking. Can I use canned pie filling? Yes, instead of making your own homemade Apple Pie Filling, you can use a canned version. Additionally, you can change the apple pie filling to other canned fruit fillings if desired. How should I serve Fried Apple Pies? You’ll see in my pictures below, I give a couple of options. You can dip them in cinnamon sugar as soon as they come out of the fryer (this will help the coating stick better if it is done immediately after) or you can coat them with a sweet glaze or even just dip them in some caramel sauce! What’s the best way to store leftovers? Store any leftovers in an airtight container for up to 2 days. You can freeze them in a freezer safe container for up to 3 months. Thaw in the fridge overnight before reheating in the oven or Air Fryer. INGREDIENTS NEEDED: (SEE RECIPE CARD BELOW FOR THE FULL RECIPE) Granny Smith apples– peeled, cored, and diced. If you prefer, other apple varieties can be used. brown sugar – for a richer flavor, you can use dark brown sugar. I just used light brown sugar here. water  butter  – you want real butter here – not margarine. cinnamon and nutmeg – I love the combination of both of these together. You could also substitute both of them for apple pie spice. cornstarch  vanilla extract  salt  ready-made pie crusts– you can also use homemade pie crust or other options discussed in the Frequently Asked Question section above. powdered sugar  milk  granulated sugar  HOW TO MAKE FRIED APPLE PIES In a medium saucepan, combine the diced apples, sugar, butter, cinnamon, nutmeg, and a pinch of salt. Cook over medium heat until the apples are tender, about 5-7 minutes. In a small bowl, create a slurry by mixing the cornstarch with the water until completely combined. Add the slurry to the apple mixture and cook until thickened about 2-3 minutes.  Remove from heat and stir in the vanilla extract. Set aside and let the filling cool. On a lightly floured surface, roll out the ready-made pie crusts. We used a 4-inch round glass but you can use a cookie cutter if you have one. If you would like larger pies use a 5-inch cutter. Cut out circles from the pie crusts. Re-roll the pie crust if necessary.  Place about 1 Tablespoon of the apple filling in the center of each dough circle. Fold the dough over to create a half-moon shape and press the edges with a fork to seal. Brush the edges with a little water before pressing with a fork to ensure the pies seal well. Heat about 2 inches of oil in a deep skillet or pot to 350°F (175°C). Carefully place about 2 pies at a time (if you have a larger skillet you can fry more. Fry until golden brown, about 2-3 minutes flipping at the halfway mark. Use a slotted spoon to remove the pies and drain them on paper towels. To glaze pies: In a small bowl, mix the powdered sugar with milk (and vanilla extract, if using) until smooth, and drizzle the glaze over the cooled pies. To dust the pies: In a small bowl, mix the granulated sugar and cinnamon.While the pies are still warm, sprinkle them with the cinnamon sugar mixture.  CRAVING MORE RECIPES?  Mini Cherry Cheesecake Pies Beef and Potato Hand Pies Air Fryer Apple Hand Pies Air Fryer Blueberry Hand Pies Christmas Tree Hand Pies Print Fried Apple Pies These delicious Fried Apple Pies are made with a thick and perfectly spiced homemade apple pie filling encased in a crispy, flaky, golden brown crust! Course DessertCuisine American Prep Time 20 minutes minutesCook Time 15 minutes minutesTotal Time 35 minutes minutes Servings 14 servings Calories 198kcal Author Brandie @ The Country Cook Ingredients2 medium Granny Smith apples peeled, cored, and diced¼ cup brown sugar1 ½ Tablespoons water1 Tablespoon butter½ teaspoon cinnamon¼ teaspoon nutmeg1 ½ teaspoons cornstarch1 Tablespoon water1 teaspoon vanilla extractpinch of saltFor the Pies:2 ready-made pie crusts (you can also use homemade pie crust)For Glazing:1 cup powdered sugar2-3 Tablespoons milk½ teaspoon vanilla extract (optional)For Cinnamon Sugar Dusting:¼ cup granulated sugar1 teaspoon ground cinnamonFor Frying:oil for frying (vegetable or canola oil work just fine) InstructionsIn a medium saucepan, combine the diced apples, sugar, butter, cinnamon, nutmeg, and a pinch of salt. Cook over medium heat until the apples are tender, about 5-7 minutes. In a small bowl, create a slurry by mixing the cornstarch with the water until completely combined.Add the slurry to the apple mixture and cook until thickened about 2-3 minutes. Remove from heat and stir in the vanilla extract. Set aside and let the filling cool.On a lightly floured surface, roll out the ready-made pie crusts. We used a 4-inch round glass but you can use a cookie cutter if you have one. If you would like larger pies use a 5-inch cutter. Cut out circles from the pie crusts. Re-roll the pie crust if necessary. Place a 1 tablespoon of the apple filling in the center of each dough circle. Fold the dough over to create a half-moon shape and press the edges with a fork to seal. Brush the edges with a little water before pressing with a fork to ensure the pies seal well. Heat about 2 inches of oil in a deep skillet or pot to 350°F (175°C).Carefully place about 2 pies at a time (if you have a larger skillet you can fry more. Fry until golden brown, about 2-3 minutes flipping at the halfway mark.Use a slotted spoon to remove the pies and drain them on paper towels. To glaze pies: In a small bowl, mix the powdered sugar with milk (and vanilla extract, if using) until smooth, and drizzle the glaze over the cooled pies. To dust the pies: In a small bowl, mix the granulated sugar and cinnamon. While the pies are still warm,sprinkle them with the cinnamon sugar mixture. Notes Please refer to my FAQ’s (Frequently Asked Questions) and ingredient list above for other substitutions or for the answers to the most common questions. NutritionCalories: 198kcal | Carbohydrates: 32g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 7g | Sodium: 109mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 19g

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Here’s something very peculiar, and perhaps telling, which you almost certainly have had zero exposure to: all of the major national polls went dark last week. Mark Mitchell, the CEO of Rasmussen Reports, has been squawking about this for a few days now on Xwitter… There were 6 non-Rasmussen General Election polls on RCP the week of the JD Vance pick. Only ONE this week. Weird. pic.twitter.com/djg4VlMZ7N — Mark Mitchell, Rasmussen Reports (@Mark_R_Mitchell) August 10, 2024 It turns out that Mitchell is correct. Here’s a screenshot from RealClearPolitics taken at noon central time on Monday, and as you can see, there were no polls other than Rasmussen’s released containing data from later than Sunday, August 4. That’s weird, isn’t it? Kamala Harris picks Tim Walz as her running mate and no major polling organization goes into the field to poll the effect of the choice? Mitchell was a guest on Steve Bannon’s War Room Saturday and he discussed the peculiarity of this phenomenon… Adding to the complexity, Mitchell noted to WarRoom host Royce White, that despite Harris’s poor track record on critical issues such as border control and overall favorability, the media continues to push a positive narrative. “Kamala Harris has never pulled better than Joe Biden,” he stated. “Her record is abysmal, with 49% of voters saying she has done a poor job on the borders, and only 19% believing she’s better than recent vice presidents.” This stark contrast between her actual performance and media portrayal raises questions about the motivations behind such reporting. Mitchell’s concern about the integrity of polling data is further evidenced by the lack of recent national numbers from major polling firms, he told White. “We’re the only ones putting out fresh national data this week,” he said. “Others have outdated numbers from early August or earlier. The absence of current data from major pollsters indicates a potential effort to suppress unfavorable findings about Harris.” Looking ahead, Mitchell advised scrutiny of future polls to uncover any biases or methodological flaws. “Watch for oversampled Democrats or shifts in how data is weighted,” he suggested. “The industry is carrying water for Harris, and it’s crucial for voters to understand the real dynamics of this race.” Mitchell’s remarks expose what he sees as a concerted effort by the media to distort the reality of Kamala Harris’s candidacy and Donald Trump’s standing. Mitchell also cut a video on this topic… One assumes that the Harris campaign is doing internal polling. That obviously hasn’t leaked. In fact, the only time at which Democrat internal polling has made it into public view this year was amid the push to remove Joe Biden as the nominee. And now that Harris has been anointed the Democrats’ presidential candidate, paired with a governor of arguably the most loony-left state in the union, a man who clearly lied about serving in combat, oversaw hundreds of millions of dollars in COVID fraud, fiddled as his largest city burned following the death of a career criminal suffering from a fentanyl overdose while in police custody, has very suspicious long-standing ties to the Chinese Communist Party and has aggressively embraced all the worst aggressions of the radical LGBTQ and transgenderist movements, all the major polling organizations save for Rasmussen have gone dark — or at least went dark for more than a week (it’s possible that by the time you read this some new national polling will have finally been released). One of two things has happened. Either these organizations have stopped polling, or they’ve chosen not to release the results of surveys they did perform. That was a question Rasmussen Reports asked on Xwitter Monday. Most followers think it’s the latter. Halfway through the day and still only one new GE 2024 poll since 8/4. Do you think they’re holding the data? Or did they not poll? — Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) August 12, 2024 It’s fairly obvious they’re right, of course. A hole in polling like this isn’t common. For example, here’s a screenshot from RCP’s polling archive from four years ago… …and here’s a screenshot from the same time period eight years ago… So no, this is not some seasonal thing. It isn’t normal for all of the big polling organizations to go dark on the presidential race at the same time. It’s decidedly abnormal for this to happen. And given the clear use of Photoshop and AI imagery to show augmented crowd photography and in so doing present the Harris campaign as generating surging throngs of devoted fans, plus other interesting fake-it-till-you-make-it tricks, the polling hole is conspicuous. Rasmussen, by the way, has Trump ahead of Harris 49-44 in its latest numbers. Yes, yes, you say, but there are polls of swing states! I’ve seen ’em! That might be true. But people pay even less attention to the methodology of state polling than they do of national polling. Take for example the New York Times/Siena poll of swing states last week which was weighted in a quite ridiculous way. As Trump pollster Tony Fabrizio pointed out… Given all this, you might not find it very surprising that so much of America has been led to believe in a Trump slump over the course of the last week. At the same time the drip-drip-drip catastrophe of Tim Walz’ public vetting shocked the country and Kamala Harris once again dodged interviews, town halls, debates, press conferences and even policy statements on her own campaign website. You’re being deliberately demoralized and gaslit as a Trump voter, on such a scale that you’ve never seen before. And it’s worth wondering: what will people who will go to lengths like these to achieve political power do when they have that power? The prospective answers to that question ought to scare you stiff. READ MORE from Scott McKay: Five Quick Things: Is Trump Suffering From the Assassin’s Veto? Behold, Tampon Tim The post What Happened to All the Polling? appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

Longtime “conservative” columnist David French has held forth at that routinely far right publication The New York Times. Oops. Sorry. French holds forth there at The Times but as the universe knows, The Times hasn’t been conservative since before Adam and Eve walked the earth eating apples. Recently, French penned this headline for The Times. To Save Conservatism From Itself, I Am Voting for Harris Shocking. Not. The New York Times “conservative” columnist David French is a graduate of National Review and doubles elsewhere, has decidedly abandoned matters conservative. This time around he says things like this, which deserve a response: Since the day Donald Trump came down that escalator in 2015, the MAGA movement has been engaged in a long-running, slow-rolling ideological and characterological transformation of the Republican Party. At each step, it has pushed Republicans further and further away from Reaganite conservatism. As someone who actually served in the Reagan White House as a White House political director, I don’t recall Mr. French’s presence when the Reagan staff was doing battle for our ideological commander in chief. And surely someone as smart as French is understands exactly what he’s doing — even if he pretends it isn’t so. He protests that he’s “going to vote for Kamala Harris in 2024 and — ironically enough — I’m doing it in part to try to save conservatism.” Really? As someone who, with Reagan colleagues, did serious political battle to get constitutional conservatives confirmed to the Supreme Court, and who has listened personally to President Trump discussing his commitment to continuing to do the same in a second term that he did in his first, I distinctly recall the appointments of Supreme Court Judges with names like Justices Amy Coney Barrett, Brett Kavanaugh, and Neil Gorsuch.  He was particularly proud of his conservative appointments to the lower federal courts. Again that sentence directly from French: But I’m going to vote for Kamala Harris in 2024 and — ironically enough — I’m doing it in part to try to save conservatism. Hello? There is zero question that if Harris were to win this election and she had the opportunity to appoint Supreme Court Justices, she would appoint radical jurists. And what about federal judges on the lower courts? Without question her appointees would be solidly far left — just like Harris herself. Ergo, without question, French is out there saying in essence that he wants a retiring conservative judge to be replaced by a far left liberal. Got it. Message received. Perhaps even more telling is that the “conservative” French has bought hook, line, and sinker into the idea that a corrupt left-wing government, Justice Department, and various local Democrat governments has in fact not done what it so plainly has done: weaponize federal, state, and local governments to get President Biden’s — and now Vice President Harris’s — main political opponent: Donald Trump. There is nothing remotely “conservative” about this massive, decidedly corrupt use of government. But French signs on — and by voting for Harris is clearly stating he is signing on for more. When he focuses on the issue of voter fraud, French quite tellingly is silent about the extensive record of voter fraud right here in my own state of Pennsylvania. Voter fraud which has been long documented — say again documented — right here in this space. As here (READ MORE: The ‘Washington Post’ Attacks Pennsylvania Election Audit). Without the slightest sense of irony, French says: Political violence and threats of violence have no place in the American democratic process. Yet threats and intimidation follow the MAGA movement like night follows day. Hello? Barely a month ago Trump himself narrowly escaped assassination, with a Trump rally-goer being shot to death and two others wounded. Not only no mention of this, but zero mention of the far-left BLM riots that went on for six months in over 500 American cities. Was there a riot at the U.S. Capitol on January 6th? Yes. Not mentioned by French that it was caused by a relative handful — just over a thousand — protestors out of tens of thousands of peaceful protestors who followed President Trump’s instructions to “peacefully and patriotically” protest. The sad reality is that time after time, long before Trump was on the scene, protests in Washington, D.C. have been of a similar nature — overwhelmingly peaceful with sometimes a handful committing violence.  Pick an issue — anti-Vietnam War protests in 1971 (40,000 participants in Washington, 12,000 arrested), or later anti-Iraq War protests, Occupy Wall Street protests and so on and so on. Needless to say, Donald Trump was nowhere in sight. Then there was this from French: In many ways, the most concretely conservative action I can take in this election is to vote for the candidate who will stand against Vladimir Putin. Say what? The object of an American president when dealing with a decidedly American foe is to make sure there is no war. It is, as both Trump and Reagan believed, “peace through strength.” Yet there is French voting proudly for the Vice President who, with her President, sent such a flagrant signal of weakness to America’s enemies that one, Russia’s Putin, chose to invade Ukraine. Putin did not invade Ukraine on Trump’s watch — but on the Biden-Harris watch. And French wants the decidedly non-conservative more of that weakness. Then there is this: Trump would abandon our allies and risk our most precious alliances. Um, no. When it comes to our NATO allies, Trump simply wants them to pay their share of the freight. So too did President Dwight Eisenhower, history records. Neither were anti-NATO. In sum, David French is the current version of all those Establishment Republicans who warned against the supposed disaster of nominating Ronald Reagan.  As I warned of those anti-Reagan RINO’s back in 2015: Yes, Trump Can Win — The American Spectator | USA News and Politics| USA News and Politics Among the jewels from all those hysterical about the rise of Reagan in those days: New York’s Republican Senator Jacob Javits: Reagan’s positions are “so extreme that they would alter our country’s very economic and social structure and our place in the world to such a degree as to make our country’s place at home and abroad, as we know it, a thing of the past. Vice President Nelson Rockefeller dismissed Reagan as “a minority of a minority” who “has been taking some extreme positions. Illinois Republican Senator Charles Percy said Reagan’s candidacy was “foolhardy” and would lead to a “crushing defeat” for the Republican Party. “It could signal the beginning of the end of our party as an effective force in American political life.” Former President Gerald Ford: “I hear more and more often that we don’t want, can’t afford to have a replay of 1964.” If the Republican Party nominates Ronald Reagan “it would be an impossible situation” because Reagan “is perceived as a most conservative Republican. A very conservative Republican can’t win in a national election.” Asked if that meant Ford thought Reagan can’t win, Ford replied to the New York Times: “That’s right.” The Times story went on to observe that Ford thought “Mr. Reagan would be a sure-loser in November” and that Reagan held “extreme and too-simple views.” And so it went as Reagan was on the march. In other words? David French is signing on to voting for one of the most far-left presidential candidates since Democrats nominated the similarly far-left South Dakota Senator George McGovern in 1972. He is signing on for a far left Supreme Court, a far left federal judiciary, a far left economic and foreign policy. God bless America, French, as with his fellow voting Americans, has the freedom to vote the way he wants. But under no circumstances is his choice remotely close to to  saving “Conservatism From Itself.” On the contrary. On the contrary. And surely someone as smart as French understands exactly what he’s doing — even if he pretends it isn’t so. READ MORE from Jeffrey Lord: Trump, Reagan, and God’s Divine Plan Tell VP Harris, VPs Lose Presidential Elections The post David French: A Fallen Conserative’s Fairytale appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.