Name: Kersenflappen Cherry Hand Pies
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 40 min
Yield: Makes: 16 pies
Ingredients: ½ teaspoon vanilla extract; 720 g / 25.4 oz ready-made puff pastry (enough for 16)*, or make your own, (apple pie recipe); Fistful of flaked almonds for topping (optional); 1 egg + 2 tablespoons water for the egg wash*; Juice of 1 lemon (around 2 tablespoons); confectioners’ sugar for dusting; 500 g / 17.6 oz (3 generous cups) tart fresh or frozen cherries (thawed), stemmed and pitted*; Pinch of salt; ½ cup (100 g / 3.5 oz) granulated sugar; raw sugar for sprinkling (optional); 2 tablespoons cornstarch; 2 tablespoons water

Preparation info

Makes:
16
pies

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
40 min

Appears in

52 Weeks 52 Sweets

By Vedika Luthra

Published 2021

About

This recipe is inspired by the highly popular appelflappen that are readily available across the Netherlands: flakey pastry, dusted with sugar and filled with sweet, syrupy cooked apples. In Dutch supermarkets, you can buy packages of puff pastry containing ten 12-cm squares, almost begging for the pastry to be made—all you need to do is stuff it with the apple, fold it diagonally, and bake. But I wanted to take these a step further, so I replaced the apple with cherries. As my house