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broken open cherry cheesecake hand pie
5 from 14 votes

Cherry Cheesecake Hand Pies


Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Prep Time 40 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
6
Quick and delicious individual pastry. Cherry cheesecake hand pies are cooked in an air fryer for a flaky sweet treat.

Equipment

Ingredients
  

Hand Pie Ingredients:

  • 1 package of two refrigerated pie crusts
  • 21 oz. can cherry pie filling
  • Water for sealing crusts

Cream Cheese Filling Ingredients:

  • 8 ounces cream cheese softened
  • ½ cup granulated sugar
  • 1 large egg

Glaze Ingredients:

  • 1 cup powdered sugar
  • cup whole milk
  • 1 ½ teaspoons corn syrup

Instructions

  • Remove pie crusts from refrigerator and set out to bring to room temperature 30 minutes before preparing the recipe.
  • Make the cheesecake filling by beating together cream cheese, sugar, and egg until well blended. Set aside. (You will have extra cheesecake filling. If you’d like to halve the recipe, beat the egg and then divide in half before combining with the other ingredients.)
    cheesecake mixed in bowl
  • On a lightly floured surface, unroll the pie crusts. Use a 4” biscuit or cookie cutter (we used a fluted biscuit cutter) to cut out as many circular crusts as you can from the pie crust (you will need 12 total). Press together the pie crust scraps and re roll to the same thickness as the packaged pie crusts. Cut out any additional rounds to make 12.
    cut out rounds of pie crust
  • On each of 6 crusts, place a spoonful of cherry pie filling. Add a tablespoon or so of the cheesecake filling on top of the cherry filling.
    cherry filling on top of cheese mix on pie crust
  • Cut several slits into the center of the other 6 pie crust pieces. Brush the crusts with water and then place, moistened side down, over the filled pie crusts. Match up all of the edges and press well to seal.
    pastry brush brushing pie crust
  • Flip up the edges around the pies to seal and make a beautiful edge.
  • Set four hand pies (or however many fit) at a time into the air fryer basket. Bake for 10 minutes at 350° until the pies are golden and flakey.
    cherry cheesecake hand pies in air fryer
  • Prepare the glaze by whisking together the glaze ingredients until smooth. Brush over the warm hand pies as soon as they come out of the air fryer.
    wished sugar glaze
  • Hand pies will set and dry in about 15 minutes.
    brush glaze on hand pies

Notes

Storage: 
Store leftover hand pies in an airtight container on the countertop.  Reheat in the microwave, air fryer, or toaster oven.
 
Notes:   
 
The corn syrup in the glaze gives the hand pies a nice sheen and helps set the glaze so it is dry to the touch.
 
Don’t overfill pies; they will not seal well if the filling seeps between the edges where they are sealed.
 
This recipe works best in the air fryer.  Cooking time and temp, as well as the texture of the cheesecake filling, will vary if cooked in the oven.  The cheesecake center can become overly dry if they are cooked in the oven.  Cook time would need to be adjusted.
 

Nutrition

Calories: 536kcal | Carbohydrates: 82g | Protein: 5g | Fat: 21g | Saturated Fat: 10g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 7g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 69mg | Sodium: 270mg | Potassium: 201mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 40g | Vitamin A: 759IU | Vitamin C: 4mg | Calcium: 64mg | Iron: 1mg

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