Easy to make buttery, flaky puff pastry hand pies filled with raspberry jam then drizzled with a sweet glaze.
For Valentine’s Day this year I made heart shaped Valentine’s Strawberry Hand pies. My son requested hand pies, but they were so tasty my husband and I ate them all before he got home from school – they were that good. So I had to make another batch. This time I change it up and made raspberry hand pies.
I also cut the puff pastry in to rectangles instead of heart shapes, so there wouldn’t be any wasted puff pastry dough. You could cut the rectangles in half if you wanted smaller pies, but then you’d just want to eat two.
This time I made the hand pies on the weekend so my son would get to eat some. In fact, he loved them so much he ate two of the full size ones.
If you’re just realizing today is Pi Day and you’re looking for a super easy pie recipe that’s also fantastic, this is the one.
Puff Pastry Raspberry Hand Pies
Ingredients
- 2 sheets frozen puff pastry
- ½ cup raspberry jam
- 1 egg lightly beaten
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1-2 tablespoons water
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425°.
- Thaw puff pastry sheets overnight in the refrigerator, or at room temperature for 40 minutes or until easy to handle.
- Unfold pastry sheet on lightly floured surface. Cut each pastry sheet in to 6 rectangle pieces. Put six rectangles on a parchment-lined rimmed baking sheet. Spoon the raspberry jam in to the center of each rectangle. Brush edges with beaten egg and top with another rectangle. (You can stretch the top rectangle a bit so it easily fits over the jam.) Seal the edges together with the tines of a fork.
- Snip the top dough in three places to release steam. Put tray in the freezer for 10 minutes.
- Remove from freezer and brush top with egg wash and a sprinkle of sugar if desired.
- Bake pies 5 minutes. Reduce oven temperature to 350° and bake for 25 minutes more until golden brown and puffy.
- Whisk together powdered sugar and water until smooth. Drizzle glaze over hot pies.
Jamie
Perfect! I love these and they are so simple and pretty! Bookmarked.
Mila
Adoro le tue ricette, ma queste semplici e veloci mi fanno davvero impazzire!!!!
Complimenti
Kitchen Belleicious
Always looking for easy ways to make a healthy homemade breakfast. Love using puff pastry dough for poptarts so to speak:) my boys dont know the term hand pies yet! LOL!
Brenda @ a farmgirl's dabbles
Oh, YUM! I love hand pies. And Raspberry?! Swoon.
Lorraine Not Quite Nigella
Hehe mum you are so funny! Love that you ate them all before he came home! Xxx
Aimee @ Simple Bites
Excellent tutorial and gorgeous results!
Cookin Canuck
I can see why your son ate two of these! These look better than anything you’d find in a bakery, Barbara.
claire @ the realistic nutritionist
I could probably eat like 16 of these. So gorgeous!!
Teresa
Wow, Barbara, these look awesome! I want one! 🙂
GourmetGetaways
Oh these look so delicious! I wish I was having one with my morning coffee! hey would be super cute in a heart shape.
Foodiewife
It’s been far too long since I’ve made handpies like this. My son loves these. I love the idea of the glaze you drizzled over them. They look like frozen puff tarts, only much better!
Sandy G.
Hi…I subscribe to your recipe newsletter and enjoy your recipes so much! These look so easy and absolutely delish! Thanks for putting more inspiration in my baking. Have a blessed day!
Barbara Schieving
Thanks Sandy! What a sweet comment. So happy I could inspire you to get in the kitchen and get baking.
Medeja
I love such easy and yummy treats!
Melissa @ My Recent Favorite Books
I love Pies!!! My favorite dessert!
Pinning your recipe, thanks!
Rocky Mountain Woman
Easy peasy and good! perfect…
2 Sisters REcipes
Love puff pastry! We keep it in our freezer all the time. So now, I will have to make these because my family will definitely go bonkers over them.
Carol
Beautiful! And so easy too.
Thank you Barbara 🙂
Maria
Gorgeous! I want one right now!
Katrina @ Warm Vanilla Sugar
These hand pies look soooooo good! I can’t wait to try them!
Rosa
Extremeley tempting and surely better than the store-bought ones.
Cheers,
Rosa