Cherries have flooded Doha market. And being a huge cheery fan my hubby without fail gets boxes of cherries.
This particular batch though looked plump and juicy where tasteless, but I did not have heart to discard these rubies, i had to transform them. Had store brought puff pastry lying in my freezer. So in no time I made cherry pie filling and made hand held pies.
Ingredients
6 frozen puff pastry ( store brought)
200 gms fresh dark cherries
4 tbsp sugar
1 tbsp lemon juice
1 tsp salted butter
1 tsp cornflour
1/4 cup Almond flakes
2-3 tbsp milk / 1 egg
Sugar glaze:
4-5 tbsp of icing sugar
2 tsp if cold milk
Method
Remove puff pastry out of freezer atleast 1/2 hour before you plan to make the pies.
With help of straw deseed the cherries and keep it aside. Make cornflour slurry with 2 tbsp of water. Toast almond flakes on a pan over medium heat until they are light brown.
Put the de seeded cherries in the saucepan along with sugar and lemon juice. Place the saucepan over medium heat and let the sugar dissolve and cherries release it juices.
Once the sugar and cherries juice is all syrupy add cornflour slurry and mix well. Within a minute or two the cherries sauce will thicken and then add toasted almond flakes and butter. Stir well.
Remove from heat and let cherries filling cool down before filling it in pastry.
Carefully separate all the puff pastry from each other. Gently with help of rolling pin stretch each puff pastry in rectangular shape. ( Dust all purpose flour if required)
Place a generous spoonful of cherry filling on centre of each pastry. Slightly dampened the sides of pastry and cover the cherry filling with the pastry like an envelope. Crimp the edges with fork, so the filing doesn't oozes out while baking. Repeat the same with remaining puff pastry sheets.
Preheat Air fryer / Oven at 180 degrees C for at least 10 minutes before place the pies to cook.
Place the pies in the basket of Air fryer / lined baking tray and brush it with milk or beaten egg to give nice colour and shine to pies.
Let it bake for 12-15 minutes at 180 degrees C.
Place the pies on wire rack to cool down a bit.
Make sugar glaze by mixing icing sugar and milk. Drizzle over the pies and sprinkle toasted almond flakes before serving.
Serve warm.
Afroz these look so very good. I just want to grab it from the screen and have it.
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Thank you Jaya
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The pies look amazing. Love the idea of hand held pies!
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Thank you Aanchal
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Been ages since I baked and you are tempting me to start, ASAP. 🙂
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Aruna I am glad you liked them
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Wow😍they look so yummm
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Thank you for stopping by 😊
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They look extremely tempting – perfect for a work potluck. Thanks for the recipe.
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Aish das thank you so much
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Pie looks yum dear. Almond and cherry are my favorite combo.
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Thank you
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Oh my goodness they look so scumpticous!! I am saving this amazing hand pie recipe 🙂 going to try this soon!
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Thank you Soniya. I am so glad you liked it 🙂
Do give your feedback whenever you try 😊
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My kids likes this kind of baked sweet treat:) Looks delicious and well explained.
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Thank you Uma 🙂
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Tempting clicks, and awesome recipe just loving it 😋😋😊
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Thank you Spiceaffairs
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These hand pies look delicious!
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Thank you 😊
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Wow these sound great! I love almonds but I can only eat cherries in certain ways (not a fan). These look like they should be sold in some French Cafe!
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Thank you for appreciating 🙂
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This looks super yummy. I was looking at one of the photos and was trying to figure out what the garlic does for the dish. I scrolled back and forth reading. I read over toasted Almonds about 3 times. Anyway, I’m glad it’s not garlic.LOL Thanks for sharing.
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Hahaha I am glad you realized those were almond flakes 😅
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I can almost taste them! Cherries are my favourite summer fruit.
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Thank you Rosie 🙂
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Gosh these look good. I would give anything for someone to invent a good gluten free pastry dough like you used in this recipe.
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Thank you so much for stopping by 🙂
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These look absolutely scrumptious! I bet your husband was happy to see these!
I love cherries and almonds! I bet the aroma made your entire home smell amazing! I’m pinning this to my Pinterest board, “Pie Recipes” because this is too good to lose!
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Oh yes Amber, the home was smelling so good.. my hubby was pretty happy with it😊
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These hand-held pies look super yummy. I love that the recipe is pretty simple as well.
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I am glad you like 🙂
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These look so yummy. I am going to have to try this recipe myself. Could you substitute the milk with almond milk?
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Yes you can, milk is just get the golden color on top.
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They look SO good! I’m hungry right now so I was starting at them. LOL! They seem so easy to make too!
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Haha glad you liked..
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This recipe looks so delicious and I love cherries. Where I stay cherries are so expensive (because it’s mostly imported), else I would make these pies.
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You can make peaches too, even taste heavenly.
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These look way tastier and better than those prepackaged ones at the store that I remember from my childhood! Thanks for the recipe. Ill have to do an apple one for my husband since he’s been wanting apple pie, but he’s the only one in the house who likes apple pie. lol
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Nothing can beat An apple pie 😃
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Awww I love small little hand held pies! I love the details and photography.
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Thank you dear
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I’ve never thought of transforming the cherries into something even more delicious! What a great idea! Will do so in future.
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I am glad you liked it
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