Step-by-Step Guide to Prepare Award-winning Halloween Cherry 'Eye' Pies

Halloween Cherry 'Eye' Pies.

Hello everybody, it's John, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, halloween cherry 'eye' pies. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Halloween Cherry 'Eye' Pies is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It's appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They're nice and they look wonderful. Halloween Cherry 'Eye' Pies is something that I have loved my entire life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. 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:

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

Steps 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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