Fresh Fruit Hand Pies

I wanted to share a recipe for some homemade fruit pies. I made them small like little hand pies. I found this on Pinterest but of course I modified it a little bit like always:


Cream Cheese Pastry

(courtesy of Kraft foods)

2 cups flour
½ tsp. salt
1 pkg. (8 oz.) Cream Cheese, softened
1 cup (2 sticks) cold butter or margarine

Put in a food processor and pulse all ingredients, (then divide into two portions if you are using it as a double pie crust) (I wrapped it up as one piece of dough)

Wrap tightly in plastic wrap and refrigerate for several hours until firm.


Here is how to make the little pies:

1 recipe for pie crust as above
1/3 cup sugar
2 tsp cornstarch
1 cup fresh fruit, cut up
1 egg beaten

Preheat oven to 400. I divided the dough into 6 parts and rolled out each one into a circle (maybe 6", you don't want it so thin that it breaks and won't hold the juice in). Then in a small bowl combine the fruit with sugar and cornstarch, mix well. Spoon 2 tbsp of fruit mixture onto half of the circle of pie crust. Fold over to make a half circle (see pictures). Using the tines of a fork, crimp the edges of the pie so it will stay together. Prick the top of your hand pie with a fork to vent. Brush the top of each pie with egg. Bake them on a cookie sheet sprayed with non stick spray for 15-20 minutes at 400.

Cool and pass them around....they don't last long!

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