Sugar Scraps

Name: Sugar Scraps
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: ½ teaspoon ground allspice; Egg Wash or maple syrup for a vegan crust; 2 teaspoons ground cardamom; ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg; 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon; ½ cup (100 g) sugar; ¼ teaspoon salt; Leftover pastry dough (any type)

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Pie for Everyone

By Petra Paredez

Published 2020

About

My parents bake pieces of their pie crust with cinnamon and sugar, bag them, and sell the “sugar scraps”—in fact, they sell a lot of them, as they are really popular. I prefer to use not only cinnamon but a mix of spices. Snacking on these may just take your mind off a pie that is cooling too slowly.

Ingredients

½ cup (100 g) sugar
1 tablespoon ground cinnamon

Americas
United States
Vegetarian
Pie
New York

Method

Preheat the oven to 375°F (190°C).

In a bowl, combine the sugar, spices, and salt.

Using the same method as for how to roll a dough sheet, roll the leftover pie crust to ⅛ inch (3 mm) thick and brush it with egg wash or maple syrup. Sprinkle with the spiced sugar, as li