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Blueberry hand pies

flakey pie crust, sweet blueberry filling, and luscious vanilla glaze
Servings 12 hand pies

Equipment

  • 1 food processor
  • 2 baking sheets
  • 1 saucepan
  • 1 4 inch biscuit cutter

Ingredients
  

  • 2 1/2 cups flour
  • 2 tbsp sugar
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 2 sticks butter I use salted
  • 1/4 cup iced water give or take

Blueberry filling

  • 4 cups frozen blueberries
  • 1 lemon juice
  • 1 cup sugar raw cane or coconut sugar works too!
  • 3 tbs corn starch

Icing

  • 1 1/3 cup powdered sugar
  • 2 tsp vanilla
  • 1/4 cup raw cream

Instructions
 

  • Make the crust first, at least 2 hours before you'll want to use it, or you can even make it and freeze it for easy grab and use! To make the crust, add your flour into a food processor. Cut your butter into small cubes and add on top. Add sugar and salt. Pulse a few times to get a sand like consistency, then slowly add in iced water, 1 tbs at a time, pulsing as you add it, until the dough just comes together. Then dump it out onto plastic wrap, and wrap into a disc. Place in the fridge for at least two hours, or freeze.

For the blueberry filling

  • Add your frozen blueberries, lemon juice, and sugar in a medium size saucepan, and cook on medium until the juices start to come out of the berries. After about 5 minutes when you notice lots of juice, add in your corn starch and stir for another 5 minutes, or until the mixture coats the back of the spoon. Then take off the heat and set aside to use for your pies.

Assembling the pies

  • Preheat the oven to 400. Flour your countertop and remove your pie crust from the fridge (or let thaw for about an hour if frozen). Roll out your dough to about 1/4 inch thick. Use your 4 inch biscuit cutter to make two rounds per pie (top and bottom). To assemble, place the bottom round on parchment lined baking sheet, spoon about a tablespoon of pie filling into the center, use an egg wash (1 raw + 1 tsp milk), and dip your finger in and run it along the outside of the round. Take your top round and cut out a little heart (or use cookie cutter), and remove the heart to let the filling show through. Add the top round and seal with a fork. Use the egg wash along the top of the pies with a pastry brush. Finish making all your pies, and bake at 400 for 20 minutes. Then put on a cooling rack to cool for at least 30 minutes before icing.

For icing glaze

  • Add powdered sugar to a bowl. Add vanilla and cream. Whisk together until combined.
    To glaze the pies, wait until they are cool, then I just dip the tops in the icing and kind of swirl to the side and up and if gives a nice coverage on top! Then, if we can make it, I like to wait about 30 minutes for the icing to set before eating them all up!