Blackberry Cream Cheese Hand Pie

Ok so it's April, a new month and a new series of bakes. I decided to go with a berry theme for this month. I really was confused with what to bake and went with some hand pies. I made some hand pies before and people really liked them in person and on the blog so I went with a Blackberry Cream Cheese Hand Pie. I always forget about buying turbinado sugar so I had to use some gold large sugar crystals.

Blackberry Cream Cheese Hand Pie

Honestly these were really yummy just not as beautiful, but most hand pies aren't.

here's what you will need

Hand pie crust

• 2 cups flour
• 1 stick of cold butter cut into small pieces
• 6-8 tablespoons of ice cold water
• 1/4 teaspoon of cinnamon
• 1/8 teaspoon of black pepper

Blackberry Filling

• 8oz of blackberries
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 1/4 cup honey
• pinch of salt
• 5 oz butter
• 1/4 cup water

Cream Cheese Filling

• 8oz softened cream cheese
• 1/4 -1/2 cup powdered sugar

First start with the dough

Take your 2 cups of flour, pepper, and cinnamon. Using two forks cut the butter into the flour until the mixture has a sandy texture.

Add your 6 tablespoons of your cold water and mix until your dough forms into a ball

Chill in the fridge for about 2 hours

Time for the filling

In a sauce pan add in blackberries, sugar, honey, water, and butter.

cook on medium/high until filling starts to boil and gel

I didn't want the seeds so I strained this through a sieve. ( if you like seeds you can skip this step)

I'm not a fan of seeds

For the cream cheese filling just take softened cheese and powdered sugar and whisk until combined.

I cut this dough in half  and rolled out each half. I then used a 3 inch cookie cutter and cut out circles. (you may have to take the scraps from the circles and re roll them out.)

Make sure you have a top to each bottom.

I like to stack them to make sure I have enough circles

Place some of the cream cheese filling in the center of each pie dough

Add the blackberry filling on top of that

Crimp the edges with a fork and then brush each top with the beaten egg. Add sugar crystals to the top of each hand pie.

This is always the messiest part for some reason 

Brush on a little egg so they can brown up nicely

Bake on 400F for 20 minutes.  Once baked place on cooling rack to cool completely.

I hate when filling comes out of the slits

I made some rectangle ones

look at the filling that came all the way to the corner

so flaky and crumbly

Yumz

Apple Blackberry Hand Pies For The Win!

I wanted to make a pie post every week for the month of November, and this is the last pie post for the month of November and for the year of 2017.  I wanted to make an apple pie but I wanted to make it with a twist.  I went to the store and bought two granny smith apples and found blackberries on sale, so I decided to make apple blackberry pies. I actually really love making individual desserts because you don't have to worry about portioning out desserts for everyone. I couldn't find any of my large grain sugar so I used some gold sanding sugar that I had and I loved the way it added texture to the pies. There was also additional sweetness added that balanced out some of the tartness from the granny smith apples. They looked and tasted great and are really simple to make.

Apple Blackberry Hand Pies

here's what you are going to need.

Pastry Crust

• 2 Cups of flour
• 1 Stick of salted butter (cut in small pieces)
• 6 Tablespoons of ice cold water

Apple Blackberry Filling

• 2 granny smith apples (peeled and diced)
• 6 oz of blackberries
• 1 cup of sugar
• 4 oz of butter
• 1/4 cup of honey
• 1/4 cup of water

Topping

• 1 egg (beaten)
• sanding sugar

Freshly peeled apples

Dice your apples and place them in a pan with your blackberries and water

add your butter, sugar and honey

 cook on medium/high until filling starts to boil and gel

Remove from heat and let cool completely.

For Pie Crust

Take your 2 cups of flour and using two forks cut the butter into the flour until the mixture has a sandy texture.

Add your 6 tablespoons of your cold water and mix until your dough forms into a ball

Wrap your dough in plastic wrap and place in fridge for at least two hours

I cut this dough in half  and rolled out each half. I then used a 3 inch cookie cutter and cut out circles. (you may have to take the scraps from the circles and re roll them out.)

Make sure you have a top to each bottom.

I like to stack them to make sure I have enough tops

Place some of the filling in the center of each pie dough

Crimp the edges with a fork and then brush each top with the beaten egg. Add sugar crystals to the top of each hand pie.

not the neatest, they were a little overfilled but thats ok.

Bake on 400F for 20 minutes.  Once baked place on cooling rack to cool completely.

yummy

I love how these sparkle

Take a bite, they are delicious.

I couldn't resist I had to take a bite.

These are really simple and I am glad these are this is my last pie post of 2017. Next up COOKIES!