Pumpkin Hand Pies

Instruction​

• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees

• Spread puff pastry dough over a floured surface

• Roll out and cut into squares that you will be folding in half to make the pocket

• Filling Options:

  • Pumpkin pie filling (this is different from puree - you only make that mistake once)

  • Nutella

  • Fruit and sugar

  • Jam

• Dip your finger in water and wet the inside of the dough where you will be sealing the pie

• Fill each pastry with the filling and fold them closed

• Dip a fork in flour and use it to crimp the edges of each pastry

• Dip a knife in flour and cut 3 slits in the top of each pastry

• Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and spray with baking spray

• In a small bowl, whisk one egg and use a brush to apply the egg wash to the top of each pastry

• Bake on the greased sheet for 15 minutes

• Remove and let the pastries cook

• Top the pastries with one or more of the following:

  • powdered sugar

  • crushed nuts

  • drizzled chocolate

  • a powdered sugar/butter icing