Canada Flag Cherry Hand Pies
Ingredients
- 110 ml df milk lukewarm
- 1 tbsp sugar
- 1 tbsp active dry yeast
- 1 can cherry pie filling store bought, but you can use homemade, definitely!
- 3 c flour
- 1/3 scant cup sugar
- 1 tsp salt
- 230 g fat golden shortening or regular vegetable shortening, df butter (room temperature), regular butter (room temperature), margarine (if using margarine spread, lessen the amount a bit) whichever you prefer
Instructions
- Add a tbsp sugar into milk, stir in yeast, let stand to bloom
- Mix flour, salt, sugar
- Add in fat
- Pour in yeast, knead
- Roll flat and cut into cookie cutter
- Place filling in center, seam to seal
- Bake on preheated 350 F convection oven 15-18 mins
- Cool on rack