Blueberry Hand Pie

Fruit is so much fun to cook with!  The twins are little “fruit bats” and will eat bowls and bowls of whatever fruit they can get their little hands on!  Their current favorite are blueberries.  We hope to go pick some soon until then we have been buying a pint or two a week from the grocery store.  This week I wanted to make something fun with them and remembered a recipe I had pinned on Pinterest from Carol from Simply Gluten Free.  Her recipe looked easy and used help from a Gluten Free package bread mix.  I happened to have some Gluten Free Pie Dough mix from Moon Rabbit Foods in the pantry that I could use!  So here is how I made Gluten Free Blueberry Hand Pies!

What You Need:
 Filling
2 cups blueberries
1/4 cup lemon juice
1/3 cup sugar
2 tsp corn starch
2 tbsp water

Dough
2 cups of Mood Rabbit Foods Pie Dough
1/2 cup butter (1 stick)
6 tbsp cold water

1 egg white
Sugar crystals

How To Make It:
Follow the instructions on the pie dough.  Mix together the mix and butter, add in the water and form a ball.  Place on plastic wrap and roll flat.  Put in fridge for 15-20 minutes while you prepare the filling.

In a pot over medium high heat bring the blueberries, lemon juice and sugar to a boil.  Cook for 5 minutes.  Reduce heat and stir in corn starch and water to thicken.  Stir for 3 minutes and allow to mix. Cool the berry mixture in a bowl of ice water.  

Heat oven to 350 degrees.

Remove dough from fridge.  On a clean surface lightly dust some GF flour.  Roll out the dough to your desired thickness.  Cut circle or triangle shapes out of the dough.  Take one piece of pie dough and place on a parchment lined baking sheet.  Spoon some of the blueberry mixture on the dough.  Using a brush or your finger coat the outer edge of dough with the egg white.  Put a piece of pie dough on top of the pie and seal the edges with a fork.  Brush the top of the pie with egg white and sugar crystals.  Repeat until all your pie dough is used.  Bake for 15 minutes.

Serve with ice cream and any leftover blueberry filling!
This recipe make 6 hand pies. 

These turned out very tasty!  Some of the filling bubbled out of the pies but I think that is to be expected.  The leftovers have even been good heated up days after.  

The Moon Rabbit Foods dough was very good, flaky and easy to use.  It did pretty well with all the handling and rolling.  I have enough left in the mix to make one more pie and I’m thinking apple!  I’ll let you know how it turns out.  I have tried a number of their other mixes at Gluten Free expos.  Their cake mixes and brownie mixes are super good!  They use cassava flour which seems to taste good and has a good texture.  You can buy their products online, some grocery stores or at expos.  

Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I was given the pie dough to try and review.  The pictures and opinions are my own. 
  
This post is linked to Slightly Indulgent Tuesdays and Vegetarian Mammas Gluten Free Fridays.