Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, halloween cherry 'eye' pies. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
When cool, draw a white line under the cherry eye and a tiny dot. Brush tops of pies with egg wash. Place a half cherry in center of each pie and gently press half moons of dough into place. When cool, draw a white line under cherry eye and a tiny dot in center of each cherry.
Halloween Cherry 'Eye' Pies is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Halloween Cherry 'Eye' Pies is something which I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have halloween cherry 'eye' pies using 11 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Halloween Cherry 'Eye' Pies:
- Make ready Sweet Shortcrust Pastry
- Make ready 225 g plain flour
- Get 110 g butter, cubed & cold
- Make ready 80 g caster sugar
- Prepare 1 egg
- Prepare Or 1 packet of shopbought shortcrust pastry
- Take Sour Cherry Jam
- Get 12 cherries, pitted and frozen, (I use tinned)
- Take 1 egg, beaten
- Make ready Caster sugar, to sprinkle
- Prepare Edible white paint
Place the crust over the cherry by gently pressing down on the crust surrounding the eye. It is should be a snug fit so the crust fits up to and around the cherry (like an eye in a socket). When pies are cool, you can draw a white line under the cherry eye and a tiny dot using a brush and writting gel. This Jack Skellington Pie is a fun and spooky way to serve up a halloween pie.
Instructions to make Halloween Cherry 'Eye' Pies:
- Make the pastry: Blitz the flour and butter in a food processor, mix through the sugar, the egg, a dough should form if not add a little water. Bring together into a ball with you hands, but do not kneed. Flatten and wrap in cling film and chill for approx 1 hour.
- Preheat the oven to 170 fan. Once chilled, roll out the pastry to the rough thickness of a round coin. Cut out rounds using a cookie cutter, large enough to fit a fairy cake pan, line the bases of the tin.
- Fill each pastry case with a spoonful of jam, be carful not to overfill the cases. Cut out 12 further circles of pastry and top the pies, brush the edge of the bottom pastry circle with a little egg wash then squish the edges together.
- Brush each pie with the beaten egg and sprinkle with sugar.
- Add a frozen cherry to the top of each of the pies. Then using the pastry off cuts cut 12 smaller circles, then cut a straight side of each of the circles, place this over the cherry to form an "eyelid". Brush the "eyelid" with for egg wash.
- Bake for 12-15 mins until golden brown. Transfer top a cooling rack and allow to cool.
- Once cool add a white pupil with edible paint.
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