Apple Pie Bites

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Apple Pie Bites are great for breakfast or dessert. Use Pillsbury Crescent Rolls and fill with apple pie filling to make these muffin-sized delicious pies.

Crescent Apple Pie Bites on a white and red plate with apple in background.

Apple Pie Bites

Pillsbury’s crescent rolls, in themselves, are an amazing snack and make for a great, bready side-dish with plenty of dinner entrées. What Pillsbury likely didn’t expect were all the recipes that found creative, new uses for their crescent roll dough. Whether served up or as an ingredient, I’ve struggled to find anyone who doesn’t enjoy the flakey, buttery goodness of a crescent roll.

Mini apple pies made with crescent rolls on a white plate with red banding includes apple slices.

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We’re no strangers to crescent rolls here on the site- we’ve already used them in a number of recipes. We’ve used them in our simple Apple Dumplings and a delicious Caramel Apple Cream Cheese Crescent Ring in the past! Both of those recipes are amazing examples of just what you can do with some apples and a few cans of crescent roll dough.

Close up of Apple Pie Bites with drizzle

This time around, we’ve found another easy recipe that’s incredibly delicious but still super simple! You just need to reach for your favorite muffin pan- that’s right: muffin-sized apple pie bites! All topped with a tasty little glaze.

Opened up Apple Pie Crescent Bites to show filling

These little apple pie bites are an amazing treat to have for either a sweet breakfast or a little evening dessert. If you’re more a fan of cherry than apple, we’ve also put out some Cherry Pie Bites before that might be right up your alley.

Text on image Apple Pie Bites on a black baking sheet with icing drizzle

I’m certain all of you with love this fun little recipe. With the autumn season on the horizon, many of you will be coming back to this recipe. That’s because once you try these sweet little pie bites, you’ll never have just one!

Text On image apple pies on a white pplate with red banding

Ingredients for Pie Bites

  • Crescent Roll Dough
  • Apple Pie Filling – Go for the supermarket stuff or try this with some Homemade Apple Pie Filling!
  • Powdered Sugar
  • Milk

Ingredients for mini apple pies with crescent krolls.

How to prepare our Apple Pie Bites

Before getting started on this recipe, you might find it necessary to cut your apple pie filling down into smaller chunks. We want our filling to be comfortably stuffed into our dough later on. A quick, rough chop with a kitchen knife should do the trick.

Diced apple pie filling on a white cutting board with knife.

Once you’ve got that filling taken care of, it’s time to get started. Turn your oven up to 375 degrees and allow to preheat while you get your bites ready. To make sure you can remove your bites from their tins down the line, spray your muffin pan down with cooking spray.

Crescent rolls draped over dark muffin pan.

After cracking open your crescent roll dough, roll it out and separate it. You’ll take the triangles of dough and drop them into each of the cavities in the muffin pan.

Apple pie filling inside crescent rolls.

From there, you’ll be adding your filling. It’ll probably come out to about a tablespoon of pie filling per pie bite. Though, no one’s going to complain if you add a little extra…

Crescent rolls folded over in muffin tin

However much filling you add, you’ll be sealing your pie bites by folding the ends over top. Start with the two shorter ends of the dough that are sticking out and then fold the longer end over those two.

Spoon with icing drizzling on top of baked apple pie bites.

Now comes the baking: pop those pie bites into the pre-heated oven and allow to bake until they looked lightly-browned. Should take around 15 minutes. Once those finish baking, pull them from the oven, set them aside to cool, and prep a simple glaze using your milk and powdered sugar.

Icing drizzled Apple Crescent pie bites on a white plate.

Drizzle your glaze over your pie bites once they have cooled down. With that, your pie bites are ready to eat. That wasn’t so hard, was it? Easy as pie!

5 from 4 votes

Apple Pie Bites

By: Jen CIncyshopper
Apple Pie Bites are great for breakfast or dessert. Use Pillsbury Crescent Rolls and fill with apple pie filling to make these muffin-sized delicious pies.
Prep: 4 minutes
Cook: 15 minutes
Servings: 8 Servings

Ingredients 

  • 1 can Cresent Roll Dough
  • 10 oz Apple Pie Filling, chopped
  • 1/2 cup Powdered Sugar
  • 1 tbsp Milk

Instructions 

  • Preheat oven to 375.
  • Spray muffin pan with cooking spray.
  • Unroll and separate dough.
  • Place one triangle into each cup and fill with a tablespoon of diced apple pie filling.
  • Fold 2 shorter ends together on the top and pull longer end over those.
  • Bake for 13-15 minutes or until lightly browned.
  • Set aside to cool.
  • Whisk together powdered sugar and milk until smooth.
  • Transfer cooled bites to wire rack and drizzle with glaze mixture.

Nutrition

Calories: 78kcal, Carbohydrates: 18g, Protein: 1g, Fat: 1g, Saturated Fat: 1g, Cholesterol: 1mg, Sodium: 45mg, Potassium: 16mg, Fiber: 1g, Sugar: 13g, Vitamin A: 9IU, Vitamin C: 1mg, Calcium: 4mg, Iron: 1mg
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12 Comments

  1. 5 stars
    Awesome taste, I forgot to stay cooking oil so it was sticking it would of tasted even better with cooking oil and not sticking.

    1. Hi Jim! I am glad you gave this apple recipe a try. I am sure you found it quite simple to make. So very sorry that you forgot to spray oil on the pan first. It does keep the pastries from sticking. But, it’s great that you still enjoyed the flavor. Thanks much for your star rating and comment letting us know that you liked the recipe. It really helps other readers who are considering making the recipe. Have a great day and we hope you make these apple pie bites again. – Jen

  2. Hi. These are absolutely amazing and so easy to do. My question is do they freeze well and for how long?? Thx

  3. 5 stars
    What a wonderfully simple and clever idea. I love this recipe. So quick to make if you have unexpected guests you want to treat too.

  4. 5 stars
    I have made these several times. And everyone loves them. They are easy and quick. I even have substituted cherry pie filling and they are yummy as well.

  5. I made this and it was absolutely wonderful. It is a great treat. Easy to make and delicious.

    1. Glad you liked them, Bonnie. Crescent roll recipes are some of my favorites. I know we will be making these apple bites all fall long and hope you do too! Have a great week.

  6. Hi Jen..thank you so much for sharing your “apple pie bites.” They’re absolutely delicious..I used them for dessert this evening..I loved them..what a great idea!!

    1. NICE! They are quite tasty. We love how quick and easy they are to make. I am happy you enjoyed them. If you have time to leave a star rating, that would be great. Hope you are having a great weekend.