SUPPLIES & TOOLS:
- Shaped Hand Pie Recipe
- 1 Package (14 oz.) Refrigerated Pie Crusts or 1 Recipe Flaky Pie Crust
- 1 1/2 cups pie filling, any flavor
- 1 Egg, Lightly Beaten with 2tsp Water
- Basic Powdered Sugar Icing Click Here
- Orange Icing Color
- Black Icing Color
- Halloween Cookie Cutter Set
- Parchment Paper
- Baking Sheet
- Fork
- Disposable Decorating Bags
- Round Decorating Tip 2, 4 needed
DIRECTIONS:
- On a lightly floured surface, unroll pie crusts. Using the cookie cutters, cut shapes as close together as possible. Gather dough scrapes into a ball, reroll and cut additional shapes.
- Brush edges of one shape completely with egg wash. Fill center with 2 tablespoons pie filling, leaving 1/2 to 3/4in around edge. Top with another piece of dough. Use a fork to crimp the pieces of the pie together, taking care to completely seal the edges. Transfer to parchment lined baking sheet. Repeat with remaining dough. Refrigerate pies 30 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 400. Brush the top of the pies with egg wash, pierce five times with a fork, and sprinkle with granulated sugar. Bake until crust is golden, about 18-20 minutes.
- For Frying: Fill a wide saucepan with 1 inch of vegetable oil. Heat to 375F on a deep frying thermometer. Fry pies in batches, turning once, about 2-4 minutes or until crust is golden. Drain on paper towels.
- Makes about 1 dozen.
- Make pie dough shapes. Prepare hand pie dough following recipe instructions. Using Halloween cookie cutter set, cut out pie dough shapes (you'll need 2 of each shape per hand pie)._x000B_
- Bake hand pies. Place one pie shape on parchment-lined baking sheet. Place teaspoon of desired filling (we used cherry) in center of dough shape, leaving 1/2 to 3/4in space around edge; place second shape on top, pinching seams together with a fork._x000B_
- Repeat with remaining pie shapes. Bake and cool following recipe instructions._x000B_
- Prepare glaze. Prepare powdered sugar glaze following recipe instructions. Using Orange icing color, tint 1/4 cup light orange. Using Black icing color, tint 1/4 cup grey and 1/8 cup black. Reserve remaining glaze white._x000B_
- Decorate hand pies. Prepare 4 decorating bags with tip 2. Fill separately with light orange, grey, black and white glaze._x000B_
- Outline and flood tops of cooled pies with glaze (pumpkins are light orange, tombstones are grey, skulls and ghosts are white).
- Using black glaze, pipe facial features on each pie. Using remaining white glaze, add eye highlights.