Submit replace: I used those Mason Jar lids (associate hyperlink) to chop the pastry dough. Additionally they paintings nice as mini tart pans as noticed on this Learn how to Make Mini Fruit Pie With Mason Jar Lids video!
It’s Secret Recipe Membership Disclose Day – each and every month, we participants get assigned a fellow meals blogger and are charged to make certainly one of his/her recipes. In flip, anyone is assigned to each and every certainly one of us and all of us disclose at the identical day our thriller bloggers along side some mouthwatering recipes (as noticed in thumbnails underneath.)
Cherry Hand Pies – amusing to make and integrated portion keep an eye on! @tspbasil Click on To Tweet
This month, I had Jess @ Lifestyles’s Easy Measures. After I began stalking exploring her weblog, I couldn’t prevent. It used to be such amusing to be informed extra about her – she were given engaged this yr to her very long time faculty boyfriend (wedding ceremony in September 2014) and simply moved to Chicago from Omaha per week or so in the past (I imagine the day of this disclose is her first day at her new task – just right good fortune, Jess!)
And guy, can this gal prepare dinner. I sought after to make her Blueberry Pie Bars and Mama’s Challah Bread and Brazilian Cheese Puffs and such a lot of extra. Plus, you will have to take a look at the beautiful cupcakes she made for a marriage reception lately.
After all, Jess’s Cherry Hand Pies received out as a result of a) cherries are my absolute favourite fruit and b) they’re in season now (albeit some way means WAY too brief season.) (I got here on the subject of making those Comfortable Pretzel Bites for my publish, being a Philly gal who loves her pretzels. However the ones will likely be for any other day…)
I made some tweaks to the pies, together with including in some lemon zest and almond extract to the cherries. I extensively utilized some white complete wheat flour and butter with coconut oil rather than the shortening. And I opted for a turbinado sugar topping rather than the easy icing.
Seems Mason jar lids make very good mini pie cutters (particularly for tattooed 6-year-olds to maintain.)
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Have fun the summer time cherry harvest with those completely portioned cherry hand pies. Or switch on your favourite summer season fruit.
For cherry filling:
- 2 kilos (4 cups) cherries, pitted and quartered
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 3 tablespoons all goal flour
- Zest of part of lemon
- 1/8 teaspoon almond extract
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
For the dough:
- 1 2/3 cup all goal flour
- 1/3 cup white complete wheat flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 4 tablespoons virgin coconut oil
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 3/4 cup nonfat milk
- Cooking spray
- Turbinado sugar
- For the filling, in a small bowl, combine cherries, sugar, 3 tablespoons flour, lemon zest, almond extract and 1/8 teaspoon salt. Put aside.
- Preheat oven to 350 levels F.
- For the dough, in a big bowl, combine in combination flours, baking powder and 1/8 teaspoon salt. With pastry knife or your palms, combine in coconut oil and butter till dough turns into crumbly.
- Slowly combine in milk till dough begins to return in combination.
- On a floured floor, roll dough till it turns into a easy dough ball. With rolling pin, roll out into 1/3-inch thickness. Minimize into 3-inch spherical circles after which roll each and every circle into about 5-inch circle (dough will likely be skinny.)
- Position each and every circle on parchment paper on a cooking sheet. Spoon about 1 1/2 tablespoons of cherry filling onto each and every circle. Fold over and seal edges. Spray with cooking spray and sprinkle with turbinado sugar.
- Bake for roughly 25 mins or till dough turns into rather golden brown. Cool rather and serve.
The dietitian in me loves the inbuilt “portion keep an eye on” of hand pies and the foodie in me loves the versatility of with the ability to switch in no matter recent fruit you’d like! It is advisable to additionally experiment with other fruit & herb/spice mixtures like peach & thyme, strawberry & basil, lemon & ginger, plum & lavender – unending chances.
Do you ever make mini or hand pies? What’s your favourite summer time pie?
