Submit replace: I used these Mason Jar lids (affiliate hyperlink) to chop the pastry dough. Additionally they work nice as mini tart pans as seen on this Easy methods to Make Mini Fruit Pie With Mason Jar Lids video!
It’s Secret Recipe Membership Reveal Day – every month, we members get assigned a fellow meals blogger and are charged to make one in every of his/her recipes. In flip, somebody is assigned to every one in every of us and all of us reveal on the identical day our thriller bloggers together with some mouthwatering recipes (as seen in thumbnails beneath.)
Cherry Hand Pies – enjoyable to make and built-in portion management! @tspbasil Click on To Tweet
This month, I had Jess @ Life’s Easy Measures. As soon as I began stalking exploring her weblog, I couldn’t cease. It was such enjoyable to be taught extra about her – she received engaged this 12 months to her very long time school 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 reveal is her first day at her new job – good luck, Jess!)
And man, can this gal cook dinner. I needed to make her Blueberry Pie Bars and Mama’s Challah Bread and Brazilian Cheese Puffs and so many extra. Plus, you will need to try the attractive cupcakes she made for a marriage reception lately.
Ultimately, 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 a manner manner WAY too brief season.) (I got here shut to creating these Delicate Pretzel Bites for my publish, being a Philly gal who loves her pretzels. However these might be for one more day…)
I made some tweaks to the pies, together with including in some lemon zest and almond extract to the cherries. I additionally used some white entire 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 glorious mini pie cutters (particularly for tattooed 6-year-olds to deal with.)
Description
Rejoice the summer season cherry harvest with these completely portioned cherry hand pies. Or swap in your favourite summer season fruit.
For cherry filling:
- 2 kilos (4 cups) cherries, pitted and quartered
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 3 tablespoons all objective flour
- Zest of half of lemon
- 1/8 teaspoon almond extract
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
For the dough:
- 1 2/3 cup all objective flour
- 1/3 cup white entire 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 collectively flours, baking powder and 1/8 teaspoon salt. With pastry knife or your fingers, combine in coconut oil and butter till dough turns into crumbly.
- Slowly combine in milk till dough begins to come back collectively.
- On a floured floor, roll dough till it turns into a easy dough ball. With rolling pin, roll out into 1/3-inch thickness. Reduce into 3-inch spherical circles after which roll every circle into about 5-inch circle (dough might be skinny.)
- Place every circle on parchment paper on a cooking sheet. Spoon about 1 1/2 tablespoons of cherry filling onto every circle. Fold over and seal edges. Spray with cooking spray and sprinkle with turbinado sugar.
- Bake for about 25 minutes or till dough turns into barely golden brown. Cool barely and serve.
The dietitian in me loves the inbuilt “portion management” of hand pies and the foodie in me loves the versatility of with the ability to swap in no matter recent fruit you’d like! You would additionally experiment with completely different fruit & herb/spice combos like peach & thyme, strawberry & basil, lemon & ginger, plum & lavender – limitless prospects.
Do you ever make mini or hand pies? What’s your favourite summer season pie?
