Hi friends,
How’s your day going?
Steemit and Discord is filled with Valentine’s Day postings and greetings since yesterday (from those who reside on the other side of the globe).
For Valentine’s Day today, I baked Queen of Hearts pie for my littles. My 8 yo loves surprises when he gets home. He would always ask whether I make something for him. Today I bet no difference, so I started baking around 1.30 PM and just finished like 10 mins ago. The pie is cooling now. I can’t wait to see if he can recognize Queen of Hearts ?
The filling is a mixture of so many fruits, of apples, dark cherries, blueberries, blackberries, strawberries, raspberries, and rhubarb. It’s definitely fruits explosion ? I just wanted to use up fruits in the freezer.
Now, I honestly don’t know the measurement for the fruits as I opened this bag of fruits and that bag of fruits, and these were all leftover, so I just chuck them all to make the filling. So the measurement below would be just roughly ✌️
Filling
- 1 ziplock bag frozen rhubarb, regular size, I guess it would be around 250g
- at least 4-5 c mixture of frozen berries
- 4 fresh apples, sliced
- 1 tbsp vegan margarine
- 1/4 c sugar (more if you like sweeter, as you know rhubarb is tangy/sweet and sour)
- 2 tbsp cornstarch
How To
- give a quick rinse of frozen fruits, and place it in non-stick pan
- add in sugar and margarine, cook until fruits soften
- sprinkle with cornstarch and stir
- cook until thickened, cool to room temperature
Pie Dough
In a bowl, mix then let bloom for 5 minutes:
- 100 ml lukewarm DF milk
- 1/2 tbsp sugar
- 1/2 tbsp active dry yeast
On a separate bowl, mix and let stand until slimey:
- 1 tbsp chia seeds
- 3 tbsp golden flax meal
- 6 tbsp water
On a large bowl, mix:
- 2 c AP flour
- 1 c pastry & cake flour
- 6 tbsp sugar
How To
- pour yeast and flax mixture into flour, stir, then knead in 180 g vegan margarine
- divide dough into big lump and small lump, big for pie crust while small for face and decoration
- brush a heart shape pan with vegan margarine
- preheat oven to 375 F
- roll the big dough and place onto greased pan, poke holes all over with fork
- place sliced apples on crust then pour filling on-top of apples. My pan is deep, and I didn’t make crazy amount of filling, this I had excess crust. I rolled the crust down until it touch the filling. So it’s like making a barrier.
- roll flat small dough and cut heart shape, smaller than pie pan. Decorate this heart as face.
- place face as shown, and with food color, give face some make up ?
- bake pie for 30 minutes and take pie out
- brush pie with brown sugar solution (brown sugar with a pinch of cinnamon powder, dissolved in little water), and bake for another 10 minutes
Ta-daaaaa
Important note: don’t forget to make her crown as well. I didn’t have enough space on the pan, so I baked her crown separately and I inserted skewer before baking. Like cookie on a stick ?
Fruit Explosion Pie
Ingredients
Filling
- 1 ziplock bag frozen rhubarb regular size, I guess it would be around 250g
- at least 4-5 c mixture of frozen berries
- 4 fresh apples sliced
- 1 tbsp vegan margarine
- 1/4 c sugar more if you like sweeter, as you know rhubarb is tangy/sweet and sour
- 2 tbsp cornstarch
Pie Dough
- 100 ml lukewarm DF milk
- 1/2 tbsp sugar
- 1/2 tbsp active dry yeast
- 1 tbsp chia seeds
- 3 tbsp golden flax meal
- 6 tbsp water
- 2 c AP flour
- 1 c pastry & cake flour
- 6 tbsp sugar
Instructions
Filling
- give a quick rinse of frozen fruits, and place it in non-stick pan
- add in sugar and margarine, cook until fruits soften
- sprinkle with cornstarch and stir
- cook until thickened, cool to room temperature
Pie Dough
- In a bowl, mix then let bloom for 5 minutes, milk, sugar, yeast
- On a separate bowl, mix and let stand until slimey, flax, water, chia
- On a large bowl, mix flours and sugar
- pour yeast and flax mixture into flour, stir, then knead in 180 g vegan margarine
- divide dough into big lump and small lump, big for pie crust while small for face and decoration
- brush a heart shape pan with vegan margarine
- preheat oven to 375 F
- roll the big dough and place onto greased pan, poke holes all over with fork
- place sliced apples on crust then pour filling on-top of apples. My pan is deep, and I didn’t make crazy amount of filling, this I had excess crust. I rolled the crust down until it touch the filling. So it’s like making a barrier.
- roll flat small dough and cut heart shape, smaller than pie pan. Decorate this heart as face.
- place face as shown, and with food color, give face some make up ?
- bake pie for 30 minutes and take pie out
- brush pie with brown sugar solution (brown sugar with a pinch of cinnamon powder, dissolved in little water), and bake for another 10 minutes
