Ease of preparation: Medium
Yield: 16 hand pies
Ingredients:
Pie crust
3 ½ cups (840 ml) flour
½ cup (120 ml) cornstarch
1 teaspoon (5 ml) baking powder
¾ teaspoon (4 ml) salt
1 ½ cups (360 ml) butter, room temperature
½ cup (120 ml) shortening
½ cup (120 ml) icing sugar
¼ cup (60 ml) milk
2 eggs
1 egg, whisked for egg wash
Filling
1 ½ cups (360 ml) grape jelly
Icing
2 tablespoons (30 ml) cream cheese
½ cup (120 ml) icing sugar
2 tablespoons (30 ml) milk
Red gel food colouring
Blue gel food colouring
Rainbow sprinkles, to decorate
Method:
Let’s get baking!
To make the crust, preheat oven to 350 F (175 C).
Whisk flour with cornstarch, baking powder, and salt and add to a food processor. Add butter, shortening, and icing sugar and pulse into coarse crumbs. Transfer this mixture to a bowl.
In a small bowl, whisk together milk and two eggs. Add to butter mixture. Use your hands to combine ingredients until dough comes together.
Transfer dough to lightly-floured surface and knead briefly. Divide dough in half and pat into two flat rectangles. Roll one piece out to roughly 12 inches x 20 inches (30 cm x 50 cm) and roughly 1/8-inch (3 mm) thick. Trim the edges to create straight lines.
With the 12-inch (30 cm) edge facing you, make three slices lengthwise to create four equal long rectangles. Score these long rectangles in the middle widthwise.
Repeat these steps with the second portion of dough; you should now have 8 pieces of pastry dough.
Spoon 3 tablespoons of the grape jelly into the centre of the bottom half of each long rectangle, leaving a border of dough at the edges. Using the scored line as a guide, fold top half of dough over to cover filling. Crimp all four edges with a fork. Press small holes into the top of the hand pies using a fork or toothpick. Continue until you complete all eight hand pies.
Brush hand pies with egg wash. Bake for 15-18 minutes or until light brown in colour. Set aside to cool.
To make the icing, in a small bowl, whip together cream cheese, icing sugar, and milk. Adjust consistency with more milk if needed. Add red and blue food colouring and mix to create purple.
To finish, drizzle each hand pie with icing and scatter with rainbow sprinkles.
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