I shall call him... Mini-Pie

Two weeks ago, I got a 5-lb bag of grapefruit for free from HEB for buying 12 oz of salad (makes sense to me). Since I don't normally eat grapefruit, I had to find something to do with them. After some searching, I came across a recipe for Grapefruit Meringue Pie. I tried it out last weekend, and it tasted pretty good. I still had half of the grapefruits left to use after the first pie, so I thought I would make it again for my Super Bowl party tomorrow. Taking inspiration from a catered company dinner last year, I thought I would make miniature pies. Here's the result:


Here's what it looks like on the inside:


I made the pies by pressing the pie dough into my 12 muffin pan. To make extraction easier, I greased up the pan and then laid a strip of parchment paper into each of the cups. Here's what it looked like:


I was surprised at how well it worked. (Un)fortunately, one of the mini-pies didn't come out cleanly, so I had to destroy the evidence. The recipe for the filling was more than enough for the 12 pies that I made with the muffin tin, so I probably could have made more. I'll just use it as an excuse to buy another muffin time the next time I make the mini-pies.