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Close-up of a hand holding a baked Christmas Tree Cranberry Orange Hand Pies, showing the cranberry filling inside.

Christmas Tree Hand Pies

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Cranberry Orange Christmas Tree Pies turn a classic holiday flavor combo into something fun and festive! Buttery, flaky crusts are filled with sweet-tart cranberry and bright orange zest, then baked into golden trees drizzled with creamy vanilla bark and colorful sprinkles.

  • Total Time: 43 minutes
  • Yield: 24 servings 1x

Ingredients

Scale

3 boxes of already made pie crust (2 per box)

14 oz can of cranberry sauce

1/4 cup of brown sugar

Zest of 2 oranges

2 eggs

24 oz brick of vanilla almond bark

1/3 cup of your favorite Christmas sprinkles

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 350° and line a large baking sheet with parchment paper. Place parchment paper on a tray or cutting board.
  2. Roll out one of the pie crusts on your parchment lined tray and use a Christmas tree cookie cutter to cut out as many trees as you can from the dough. Carefully set the trees to the side. Repeat with the rest of the rolls.
  3. Place as many trees as you can on your baking sheet. (Make sure each tree has one extra tree off to the side.) To a medium bowl add the cranberry sauce and brown sugar and stir. Add about 2 tablespoons of the cranberry mixture to the middle of the trees.
  4. Sprinkle the zest of the orange all over each bit of cranberry sauce. Whisk up the eggs in a small bowl and baste the egg on the edges of the tree. Place a bare (no cranberry, no egg.) Tree on top and using a fork press down on the edges until sealed. Carefully make three slits, one at the top of the tree, one in the middle and one more towards the bottom.
  5. Baste the egg yolk all over the top of the tree and then bake in the oven for 20-23 minutes or until golden brown all over. Once done, let them completely cool. Melt the chocolate in a microwave safe bowl and then add to a zip lock bag. Snip the end of the bag off and drizzle over the tree and then immediately sprinkle the sprinkles on the chocolate.
  6. Let the chocolate harden and then serve and enjoy!!

Notes

  • Store in an airtight container in the fridge for 2-3 days.
  • Once the chocolate hardens, pick the pies up and flip upside down to shake the leftover sprinkles off.
  • You can drizzle however you want or you can make it look like garland on a tree.
  • Always make sure you have 2 trees, a top and a bottom.
  • You can place the pies in the fridge after drizzling the chocolate to spread the process up.
  • Author: Little Party Pixie
  • Prep Time: 20 minutes
  • Cook Time: 23 minutes
  • Category: Sweet Treats

Find it online: https://littlepartypixie.com/christmas-tree-hand-pies-recipe/