Festive and fabulous pumpkin chocolate-filled hand pies for all your fall festivities!
Oh, how I love fall baking! The amazing aroma that fills our home and all the yumminess that fills our tummies makes me want it to be fall year-round.
We have a few fall festivities coming up where I volunteered to bring pie. I love pie, but serving it to a large crowd, including lots of kiddos, can be a bit tricky. Someone ends up shoveling a piece out of the pie plate and the whole pie turns into more of a cobbler than nice pretty slices. Not a big deal, but kind of a pain, since pie is supposed to be in one piece.
Instead of me having to cut and serve slices during the party, I decided to bring these handy hand pies instead!
Aren’t they the most adorable?! And they’re so tasty too!
Buttery, flakey pumpkin-shaped pie crusts that are filled with sweet pumpkin pie filling and rich melting dark chocolate for a hand-held pie experience like none other!
Oh me! Oh my!
They’re so incredibly easy to bake and are sure to WOW! a crowd…
I seriously can’t think of a better baked goodie to take to a Halloween or Thanksgiving get-together. So festive and fabulous! Everyone will love them!
Enjoy!
xoxo,
This recipe was created as part of my partnership with Gold Medal Flour however thoughts and opinions are certainly my own!
- 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- 2 cups Gold Medal™ all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
- ¼ cup cold water
- ⅓ cup canned pumpkin pie filling
- 1 cup dark chocolate chips
- 1 large egg mixed with 1 teaspoon water, for brushing on pies
- white sparkling sugar, for sprinkling
- Preheat oven to 425°F. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper and set aside.
- In the bowl of an electric mixer, beat the butter and sugar until smooth. Add the flour and pumpkin pie spice and beat until crumbly. Add the water and beat until a thick, moist dough forms and sticks to the paddle.
- With well-floured hands, form the dough into a ball on a well-floured surface. Roll dough to ¼-inch thick and cut into pumpkin shapes with a medium-sized pumpkin cookie cutter. Repeat rolling dough until you have 24 pumpkin-shaped pie crusts.
- Place 12 of the crusts upside down on the prepared baking sheets. Scoop a heaping teaspoon of pumpkin pie filling into the center of each pumpkin crust and top with about 8 chocolate chips. Place another pumpkin crust on top of the filling and press down around the edges to make sure the two crusts are aligned with each other. Use a fork to seal around the edges of each hand pies.
- In a small bowl, whisk together the egg and 1 teaspoon cold water. Brush egg wash onto the top of each pumpkin hand pie and sprinkle generously with white sparkling sugar.
- Bake for 14-16 minutes or until hand pies are golden brown.
Jennifer @ Show Me the Yummy says
October 22, 2014 at 4:05 pmThis is the perfect solution to an “ugly” cut up pie! Can’t go wrong with eating pie with your hands, either. Love the addition of chocolate to this! 🙂
Ashley says
October 22, 2014 at 5:22 pmDo you think this would work as well with premade store bought crust?
Maegan says
October 22, 2014 at 9:37 pmHi Ashley! Yes, a rolled out store-bought crust would work great as well. Enjoy!
Jessica Knott {Swankyrecipes} says
October 31, 2014 at 5:01 amYummy, this looks so delicious! Pumpkin is my weakness and I’ll need to bake these soon!
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