Apple Mini Pies

Ingredients:
6 medium apples
1 cup einkorn flour
¼ cup coconut sugar
1 unripe banana
12 dates
bourbon vanilla pod
½ tsp cinnamon
½ tsp ginger (optional)
2-3 cardamom seeds (optional)
pinch of Himalayan salt
maple syrup (for glazing)

Preparation:
Cut about 1-2 cm from the top of the apples (as you would cut cap). Carefully remove the seeds and carve small well in the core of the apple.
If dates are dried, soak them in advance for several hours. Peel them and remove their pits. Blend them with cinnamon, ginger, cardamom and half of the vanilla. Fill the mixture into the wells of the apples. Blend well the banana with coconut sugar, pinch of salt and remaining vanilla. Gradually, by hand or in a processor, add the flour until you get a dough with the consistency of plasticine. Leave it to rest a little. Roll on a sheet with thickness of about 3 mm. With a cookie cutter or glass cut circles of dough with a diameter suitable to serve as caps for the apples. In the middle of the dough circles cut a hole in the shape of choice. Put them as caps on apples. From the dough in the form of tracery or small figurines shape curb that binds the cap with the apple. Bake for approximately 20-30 minutes in a preheated at 180 degrees oven until apples soften. After removing the apples while they are still hot – glaze the caps with maple syrup using a small brush.