Thursday, April 4, 2013

Strawberry Pocket Pies with Vanilla Glaze

These little pies give me a good excuse to eat pie for breakfast. They are so, so good.

Ingredients:
for the pastry dough:
1 1/2 - 2 cups all purpose flour
2 Tbsp. sugar
1/2 tsp. salt
1/4 c. plain Greek yogurt
1/4 c. unsalted butter, chilled
3 Tbsp milk

for the strawberry filling
3/4c. fresh strawberries, chopped (any kind of berries will work)
1/4c. sugar (white or brown)
1/4c. cream cheese

for the glaze
1 1/2c. powdered sugar
4 Tbsp milk
1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract

Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease baking sheet or line with parchment paper. 

for the pastry dough:
In a mixing bowl sift together 1 1/2 cups flour, sugar and salt. Using a mixer, slowly add in the milk and the yogurt. Beat in the butter until dough comes together. Add more flour if dough is too sticky. Store dough covered in the fridge until ready to use. 

for the filling:
Mix strawberries, cream cheese and sugar in a small bowl and set aside. 

for the glaze: 
Mix all ingredients together until smooth and has a fairly thin consistency. 

To assemble the pies, remove pastry dough out of fridge. Roll dough out on floured surface in to a thin crust. Cut dough using a 2" cookie cutter. You will get approximately 24 pieces. Onto a greased baking sheet lay out 12 pastry pieces. On to each one, place 1 heaping tablespoon of the strawberry mixture. Once each pastry has filling on top, place remaining 12 pastry pieces on top of each pie. Make sure you seal the edges of each pie by pressing tips of fork all the way around the outer edge of each pie or, you can just use your fingers. Bake the pies at 350 degrees for approximately 15 minutes or until the pies are golden brown in color. Drizzle desired amount of glaze onto each pie. Once cool they're ready to eat. Enjoy!

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