1-1/2 cups (360 milliliters) butter, room temperature
1/2 cup (120 milliliters) shortening
1/2 cup (120 milliliters) icing sugar
1/4 cup (60 milliliters) milk
2 eggs
1 egg, whisked for egg wash
Filling:
1-1/2 cups (360 milliliters) grape jelly
Icing:
2 tablespoons (30 milliliters) cream cheese
1/2 cup (120 milliliters) icing sugar
2 tablespoons (30 milliliters) milk
Red gel food colouring
Blue gel food colouring
Rainbow sprinkles, to decorate
Directions
Crust:
Preheat oven to 350 F (175 C).
Whisk flour with cornstarch, baking powder, and salt and add to a food processor. Add butter, shortening, and icing sugar and pulse into coarse crumbs. Transfer this mixture to a bowl.
In a small bowl, whisk together milk and two eggs. Add to butter mixture. Use your hands to combine ingredients until dough comes together.
Transfer dough to lightly-floured surface and knead briefly. Divide dough in half and pat into two flat rectangles. Roll one piece out to roughly 30 x 50 centimeters and roughly three millimeters thick. Trim the edges to create straight lines.
With the 30 centimeter edge facing you, make three slices lengthwise to create four equal long rectangles. Score these long rectangles in the middle widthwise.
Repeat these steps with the second portion of dough; you should now have 8 pieces of pastry dough.
Spoon three tablespoons of the grape jelly into the centre of the bottom half of each long rectangle, leaving a border of dough at the edges. Using the scored line as a guide, fold top half of dough over to cover filling. Crimp all four edges with a fork. Press small holes into the top of the hand pies using a fork or toothpick. Continue until you complete all eight hand pies.
Brush hand pies with egg wash. Bake for 15-18 minutes or until light brown in colour. Set aside to cool.
Icing:
In a small bowl, whip together cream cheese, icing sugar, and milk. Adjust consistency with more milk if needed. Add red and blue food colouring and mix to create purple.
To finish:
Drizzle each hand pie with icing and scatter with rainbow sprinkles.
