How to Make Homemade Halloween Cherry 'Eye' Pies

Halloween Cherry 'Eye' Pies.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook 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:

1. Make ready of Sweet Shortcrust Pastry.
2. Take 225 g of plain flour.
3. Make ready 110 g of butter, cubed & cold.
4. Take 80 g of caster sugar.
5. Get 1 of egg.
6. Take of Or 1 packet of shopbought shortcrust pastry.
7. Get of Sour Cherry Jam.
8. Get 12 of cherries, pitted and frozen, (I use tinned).
9. Prepare 1 of egg, beaten.
10. Make ready of Caster sugar, to sprinkle.
11. Take of Edible white paint.

Instructions to make Halloween Cherry 'Eye' Pies:

1. 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..
2. 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..
3. 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..
4. Brush each pie with the beaten egg and sprinkle with sugar..
5. 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..
6. Bake for 12-15 mins until golden brown. Transfer top a cooling rack and allow to cool..
7. Once cool add a white pupil with edible paint..

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