Heart Shaped Strawberry Pie Pops

                                                 Heart Shaped Strawberry Pie Pops

 I love making pie pops for special occasions   ....

I decided to make these Hearty Valentine Treats for my office staff !

• Your favorite store bought pie crust (I'm using brand: Immaculate ready to bake Pie crust )
• Flour for rolling dough
• 2 tablespoons turbinado sugar
• 1 large egg, (Beaten for egg wash)
• Water- to seal pie crust together
• Strawberry  Jam (Option you can add chocolate chips or  Nutella to the jam for extra goodness)
• Red Sugar sprinkles
• Lollipop sticks
• Heart cookie cutter

                                   Before starting, preheat your oven to 350 degrees. 
   Start by rolling out your dough until it’s smooth and even, roughly 1/4″ thick. 

 Once your dough is rolled out, use your cookie cutter to cut out as many hearts as you can. Recombine the scraps of dough and repeat until you have  a whole bunch of little dough hearts.

                                               Line the hearts on a non stick baking pan .

 Leave enough space in between each heart so they don't bake into each other .

                                            I'm using Duncan Hines Strawberry filling

                                                  that has chunks of real strawberry .

 I place the filling in  food processor   

                                                                          to blend 

                                          all the strawberries to a smooth & thick texture.

                                                                        Perfect 

                                                        Spoon the Strawberry filling

                                                  in the center of half of the hearts.

                                                   Place a lollipop stick on each crust.

                                                 Press the sticks into the dough.

                              Using your fingertip dab water around the edges of the heart.
                                                    This creates a seal for the top crust.

                                            Now place the remaining  hearts  on top

                                                    and seal both crust together .

                                              Don't worry if some of the filling is showing

                                                                 around the edges .

                                                                 With a tooth pick

    Poke about 5 holes into the crust so the hearts don't puff out while baking .

                                                       Combine the  turbinado sugar

                                                       with the red sugar sprinkles .

                                                        Mix until all is combined .

                                   Brush a bit of egg wash on top  of the crust of the heart

                                          This gives the crust a golden color and shine

                                           as well as to allow the sugar to stick to the crust.

                                                                 Ready to Bake .

                                                      Place in the oven and Bake

                                                                for 18 minutes .

                                                          Take out of the oven

                                          and let cool before wrapping in treat bags.

                                      I  added Valentine Ribbon for that special touch.

 

Enjoy!