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by Dennis Weaver
"Someone else called and wants to know how you make those little raspberry cream pies." It was Heidi in Customer Service. We had been making little cream pies and handing them out to visitors in our store.
We started with a very simple raspberry cream filling in little pies or turnovers. Then we made blueberry cream cheese, blueberry lemon, mixed berries and cream, banana cream, and peaches and cream pies. They're simple. You can make a batch of six little pies faster than you can make your favorite pie recipe.
How to Create Your Own Little Cream Pies
It's fun to experiment with these little cream pies. We used premade pastry fillings but you can use those boxed pie filling mixes at the store as well. But premade Bavarian cream is really good and budget friendly.
We made batches of six pies. Since each pie requires 1/3 cup filling, we made 2 cups of filling. Our basic ratio of fruit to cream filling was one cup of each--so one cup of raspberries to one cup of Bavarian cream and one cup of blueberries to one cup of cream cheese filling.
Our peaches and cream pie was an exception. Because there is such a high moisture content in peaches, we used 1 1/2 cups of peaches to only 1/2 cup Bavarian cream. We didn't have any fresh strawberries but we would use the same the ratio with strawberries as with peaches.
We used both fresh fruit and individually frozen berries. We thawed the berries in the microwave before using them. The pies worked best with room temperature pastry filling.
We've always made little pies with fruit-based pastry fillings. (Little lemon pies are my favorite.) This time we mixed fruit filings with Bavarian cream, one cup of each. Raspberry and cream is a to-die-for combination.
In each case, we used our just-add-water pie crust mix. This makes a great pie crust, the same as many professional bakeries. Two cups of mix and 1/3 cup plus one tablespoon cold water is perfect for six little pies.
Here's How to Make Your Little Pies
This methodology is the same as for making little pies with fresh apples.
Step 1: Mix and roll out the pie crust. Step 2: Use a dough press to cut out six circles for the little pies.
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