Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, halloween cherry 'eye' pies. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
When cool, draw a white line under the cherry eye and a tiny dot. Brush tops of pies with egg wash. Place a half cherry in center of each pie and gently press half moons of dough into place. When pies are cool, you can draw a white line under the cherry eye and a tiny dot using a brush and writting gel.
Halloween Cherry 'Eye' Pies is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Halloween Cherry 'Eye' Pies is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook halloween cherry 'eye' pies using 11 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Halloween Cherry 'Eye' Pies:
- Prepare Sweet Shortcrust Pastry
- Prepare 225 g plain flour
- Prepare 110 g butter, cubed & cold
- Get 80 g caster sugar
- Prepare 1 egg
- Prepare Or 1 packet of shopbought shortcrust pastry
- Get Sour Cherry Jam
- Prepare 12 cherries, pitted and frozen, (I use tinned)
- Get 1 egg, beaten
- Get Caster sugar, to sprinkle
- Take Edible white paint
Gently flip the pie crust over and gently place it over the pie filling, making sure the face is resting in the center of the pie.. Cherry Pie Filling - using canned cherry pie filling gives a spooky Halloween treat appearance and is easy! If you prefer you can use homemade cherry pie filling. Egg - the egg is beaten and brushed on the 'mummy wrappings' on top of the hand pie for a slightly shiny look after they are baked.
Steps to make Halloween Cherry 'Eye' Pies:
- Make the pastry: Blitz the flour and butter in a food processor, mix through the sugar, the egg, a dough should form if not add a little water. Bring together into a ball with you hands, but do not kneed. Flatten and wrap in cling film and chill for approx 1 hour.
- Preheat the oven to 170 fan. Once chilled, roll out the pastry to the rough thickness of a round coin. Cut out rounds using a cookie cutter, large enough to fit a fairy cake pan, line the bases of the tin.
- Fill each pastry case with a spoonful of jam, be carful not to overfill the cases. Cut out 12 further circles of pastry and top the pies, brush the edge of the bottom pastry circle with a little egg wash then squish the edges together.
- Brush each pie with the beaten egg and sprinkle with sugar.
- Add a frozen cherry to the top of each of the pies. Then using the pastry off cuts cut 12 smaller circles, then cut a straight side of each of the circles, place this over the cherry to form an "eyelid". Brush the "eyelid" with for egg wash.
- Bake for 12-15 mins until golden brown. Transfer top a cooling rack and allow to cool.
- Once cool add a white pupil with edible paint.
If you prefer you can use homemade cherry pie filling. Egg - the egg is beaten and brushed on the 'mummy wrappings' on top of the hand pie for a slightly shiny look after they are baked. Take knife to remove large fruit filling pieces from eye holes to hollow them out, take reserved pie filling and add around eyes and mouth. Line two large baking sheets with parchment paper. Skeleton Slab Pie Cherry pie gets a bloody spin for this spooky dessert on a slab.
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