Harry Potter; Pumpkin Pasties
Pumpkin pasties are one of the very first magical treats Harry tries on the Hogwarts Express, making them a must-have for any Harry Potter party menu.
Ingredients
- Pastry crust
- 2 1/2 cups plain flour
- 2 tbsp castor sugar
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 226 g chunks of cold butter
- 3/4 cup of ice water
- Filling
- 1/4 cup white sugar
- 1/4 tsp pumpkin pie spice
- 1 cup of pureed pumpkin canned or homemade works. Steam a chopped-up-seeds-scooped-out pumpkin –butternut is my fav here in Australia- until mushy. Scoop the pumpkin mush/pulp from the skin into a blender and turn on until pureed.
Instructions
Pastry crust
- Pulse together the flour, castor sugar, salt, cold butter and ice water.
- Too dry, add extra ice water a tbsp at a time. Too wet, add more flour bit by bit.
- Once mixed well together, knead it into a ball, wrap with clingwrap and place in the fridge for an hour.
Filling
- In a bowl, stir together the white sugar, pumpkin pie spice and pureed pumpkin.
- Preheat oven to 400oF/~200oC.
- Roll out the dough to 1/8 inch or 3-4 mm thick, and punch out pumpkins with a pumpkin-shaped cookie cutter. *My pumpkin cookie cutter cut shapes about 10cm wide.
- For half of the punched out dough, cut slices in pastry for ventilation.
- Scoop a tbsp of pumpkin mix onto on pumpkin cut out, stretch edges slightly and place a ‘ventilation pumpkin cut out’ on top, and crimped the edges together.
- Place these on a baking tray and place in the oven for about 20-25 minutes. They’ll be golden when they’re ready to come out.
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