Crunchy on the top and warm cream cheese on the inside with delicious blueberry pie filling makes this blueberry cream cheese hand pies one of the best desserts to serve.
Preheat your oven to 400°F OR 200°C and line a 9x11" baking tray with parchment paper or a silicone mat.
Making the Hand Pie Dough
Mix flour with sugar until its well combined. Add cold butter cubes and mix it using a pastry cutter or two folks until they combine to form pea-sized crumbs.Add Ice-Cold water and bring everything together to make a soft dough. Wrap it with a plastic wrap and bring it together. Make a ball. Or Just bring it all together and cover with a lid. Freeze the covered dough for 30-minutes.
Making the Hand Pies
Get the dough out and allow it to come down to room temperature for 10-12 minutes. Flour your rolling board or a silicone mat. Roll the dough to about 1/2 inch thickness on all sides. Dust some flour if the dough is sticking to the rolling pin. Roll even from all sides. Use a round 2-3 inch sized cookie cutter and cut out hand pie shapes. At this point, you can also use any shape of cookie cutter you wish to.
Line the hand pies on a parchment paper-lined baking tray. Top them with, cream cheese and even it out with the back of your spoon. Then spoon the blueberry pie filling over this and cover with another disc. Pinch the sides and use the tip of the fork to make marks around the hand pie. Use a sharp knife to make small marks such as an "X" over your hand pies, letting out a bit of the filling so that it doesn't burst out. Brush the hand pies with milk and sprinkle coarse sugar on the top. You can also replace milk with egg wash if you want.
Bake your hand pies for 24 minutes at 400°F or 200°C. Get them out of the baking tray. Serve with some Vanilla Ice Cream. Enjoy.
This can be made with frozen blueberries as well. You can also combine blueberries with Almonds and a bit of Almond extract.
You can also make a mixed berry hand pie by combining blueberry with raspberry and blackberry.
If you are using frozen blueberries do not thaw them.
Milk is just a replacement for egg wash here.
The coarse sugar on the top ensures crunchy bites.
This can also be made without using cream cheese.
This can also be made using store-bought pastry sheets.
To make it gluten-free use your favorite gluten-free variety of flour.
You can also get them fried. First, pour about 3-inch oil in a deep saucepan. Heat it to approximately 375°F and add just two hand pies at once. Fry one side for just 90 seconds. Flip it over and repeat the same. If your oil is too hot, your handpies will get brown in a jiff.
Nutrition
Nutrition Facts
Blueberry Cream Cheese hand Pies
Amount Per Serving
Calories 72
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
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