Description
Delightful mini cherry pie spotlights sweet summer cherries nestled in buttery, flaky pastry. Homemade dessert perfection delivers pure satisfaction with minimal kitchen effort.
Ingredients
Scale
- 2 cups (300g) cherries, pitted
- ¼ cup (50g) sugar, granulated
- 1 tbsp cornstarch
- 1 ¼ cups (155g) flour, all-purpose
- ½ cup (115g) butter, unsalted, cold and diced
- ½ tsp salt
- 3–4 tbsps water, ice
- ½ tsp extract, vanilla
- ¼ tsp extract, almond
- 1 egg, beaten
- sugar, coarse
Instructions
- Dough Preparation: Blend flour and salt in a large mixing bowl, establishing the base for a delicate pastry crust with a light, even touch.
- Butter Integration: Delicately work chilled butter into the dry ingredients using fingertips or a pastry blender, transforming the mixture into a sandy, crumbly consistency that promises ultimate flakiness.
- Moisture Addition: Gradually introduce ice-cold water, gently folding and pressing the ingredients until a unified dough forms, taking care to minimize handling and preserve the pastry’s tender structure.
- Dough Conditioning: Sculpt the pastry into a compact, smooth-edged disk with uniform thickness, then envelop completely in plastic wrap to protect against moisture evaporation.
- Chilling Phase: Refrigerate the wrapped dough for optimal gluten relaxation and butter solidification, ensuring a supremely tender and exceptionally flaky crust that will elevate any culinary creation.
Notes
- Maintain Butter Coldness: Keep butter extremely cold and work quickly to prevent melting, which ensures a flaky, tender pie crust texture.
- Handle Dough Gently: Minimize handling of the pastry dough to prevent developing tough gluten, resulting in a lighter, more delicate crust.
- Chill for Perfection: Refrigerate dough for at least 30 minutes before rolling to allow butter to solidify and gluten to relax, creating a more manageable and flakier crust.
- Adjust Moisture Carefully: Add ice water gradually and only until the dough just comes together, preventing a sticky or tough pastry.
- Prep Time: 25 minutes
- Cook Time: 40 minutes
- Category: Desserts, Snacks
- Method: Mixing
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 9
- Calories: 246
- Sugar: 10g
- Sodium: 45mg
- Fat: 14g
- Saturated Fat: 8g
- Unsaturated Fat: 5g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 28g
- Fiber: 2g
- Protein: 3g
- Cholesterol: 37mg