Pumpkin pie hack

Happy monday!

I had so much fun this past week hosting two pie/coffee day, and wine/pie night with friends and Mom's and daughters. 

I literally was so busy I didn't get any pictures, I kid you not!

But, I did take pics of the pie idea I saw on Pinterest that I thought

I'd share.  I made mini pies for both events and they were a hit!

I feel like by the time Thanksgiving dinner is over I can rarely eat any 

of the desserts so why not host a pie party!

You are talking to someone who bakes her own pies, but once

I took a look at the Costco pumpkin pie price and size I caved.

It's a mere $5.99 for a large pie.

So start with the Costco pie and using a biscuit cutter cut little rounds of pie and put them into pie tins.

One of the get togethers I put them in tins, the other right

on the platter.  I also cut one of the pies with a bigger 

cutter and a smaller for the other party. 

I was able to get over 12 mini pieces cut from one pies with the smaller cutter.  Take all the left over pie from the cutting and mix and make cake pops with it.  Just mix it up, roll into balls and dip into either white or milk chocolate. 

I ordered these cute mini size 2.6" tins from Amazon,

 PIE TINS HERE

You can bake right in these tins too.  They make the cutest little pies.

Here they are without the tins....

And the different ones that I made...

These ones I made are pumpkin, apple-cranberry crisp,

and mixed berry pies. 

It was a fun time and so easy to eat these small portions

over pieces of pies.