Ingredients
Pie crust:
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3-1/2 cups (840 milliliters) flour
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1/2 cup (120 milliliters) cornstarch
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1 teaspoon (5 milliliters) baking powder
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3/4 teaspoon (4 milliliters) salt
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1-1/2 cups (360 milliliters) butter, room temperature
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1/2 cup (120 milliliters) shortening
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1/2 cup (120 milliliters) icing sugar
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1/4 cup (60 milliliters) milk
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2 eggs
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1 egg, whisked for egg wash
Filling:
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1-1/2 cups (360 milliliters) grape jelly
Icing:
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2 tablespoons (30 milliliters) cream cheese
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1/2 cup (120 milliliters) icing sugar
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2 tablespoons (30 milliliters) milk
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Red gel food colouring
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Blue gel food colouring
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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.
