These Spider Hand Pies are frightening, but they taste delicious with their flaky crust and sweet raspberry filling. They're the perfect thing to bake for Halloween and I've even got a printable template to help you make them!
One of the best things about this recipe is that it is really simple and doesn't require a lot of ingredients. I recommend giving yourself plenty of time to make the hand pies, because you'll need to chill them throughout the process to ensure they keep their shape. Don't worry though, they'll be worth it!
A Few Notes Before We Get Started
- Chilled Butter:
- It's crucial that your butter is very cold. If at any point it or your dough becomes too warm to work with, make sure to place it in the fridge to chill and firm back up before working with further.
- Measuring Your Ingredients:
- I strongly encourage that you use a kitchen scale to measure your ingredients and ensure that you have the most accurate measurements possible.
- However, if you don’t have a scale on hand and will be using cup measurements, make sure to use the “spoon and sweep” method when measuring to avoid packing in too much of any dry ingredient.
Download, print, and cut out the spider template. Whisk together the flour, sugar, and salt in a large bowl. Blend the butter into the flour mixture with your hands or a pastry blender until the butter is about pea sized.
Pour the water over the flour and stir together until it begins to form into a dough. Form the dough into a disk, wrap in plastic wrap, and chill for 30 minutes.
While the dough chills, preheat oven to 350º F. Roll the dough out onto a lightly floured piece of parchment paper, transfer it to a cookie sheet and chill for another 15 minutes. You want the dough to be really cold before you start cutting out the spiders.
Place the spider template over the dough and carefully cut around it using a sharp pairing knife. Transfer each spider to a parchment lined baking sheet and place back into the fridge until ready to use.
Repeat this process, rerolling the dough as needed, until you have a total of four spiders. If at any point the dough becomes difficult to work with, pop it back into the fridge to chill.
While the spiders chill in the fridge, whisk together the egg and water in a small bowl. Brush the tops of two of the spiders with egg wash.
Stir together the raspberries, sugar, and cornstarch in a small bowl, gently smashing the raspberries down as you stir.
Carefully scoop a little bit of raspberry filling onto the center body of the two spiders covered in egg wash, doing your best to keep it away from the edges.
Coat the undersides of the other two spiders with egg wash and gently place them on top of the two spiders with raspberry filling, pressing down to seal in the filling. Some raspberry juices may leak out so carefully wipe this up with a paper towel. Chill the hand pies another 10 minutes.
Trim any excess dough so that the tops and bottoms of each hand pie line up perfectly. Brush the top of all two spiders with egg wash and sprinkle with turbinado sugar. Bake the hand pies for 25-28 minutes or until they are golden brown. Enjoy!
PrintSpider Hand Pies
These Spider Hand Pies are frightening, but they taste delicious with their flaky crust and sweet raspberry filling. They're the perfect thing to bake for Halloween and I've even got a printable template to help you make them!
- Prep Time: 1 hour and 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 25 minutes
- Total Time: 1 hour and 45 minutes
- Yield: 2 servings
- Category: Dessert
Ingredients
Pie Dough
- 150 grams (1 ¼ cup) flour
- 1 ½ tsp sugar
- ¼ tsp salt
- 4 oz (½ cup) butter, chilled
- 2–3 tablespoon ice water
Raspberry Filling
- 3 oz raspberries
- ¾ tbsp sugar
- ¾ tsp cornstarch
Topping
- 1 egg
- 2 tsp water
- Turbinado sugar, for topping
Instructions
- Download, print, and cut out the spider template.
- Whisk together the flour, sugar, and salt in a large bowl.
- Blend the butter into the flour mixture with your hands or a pastry blender until the butter is about pea sized.
- Pour the water over the flour and stir together until it begins to form into a dough.
- Form the dough into a disk, wrap in plastic wrap, and chill for 30 minutes.
- While the dough chills, preheat oven to 350º F.
- Roll the dough out onto a lightly floured piece of parchment paper, transfer it to a cookie sheet and chill for another 15 minutes. You want the dough to be really cold before you start cutting out the spiders.
- Place the spider template over the dough and carefully cut around it using a sharp pairing knife. Transfer each spider to a parchment lined baking sheet and place back into the fridge until ready to use.
- Repeat this process, rerolling the dough as needed, until you have a total of four spiders. If at any point the dough becomes difficult to work with, pop it back into the fridge to chill.
- While the spiders chill in the fridge, whisk together the egg and water in a small bowl.
- Brush the tops of two of the spiders with egg wash.
- Stir together the raspberries, sugar, and cornstarch in a small bowl, gently smashing the raspberries down as you stir.
- Carefully scoop a little bit of raspberry filling onto the center body of the two spiders covered in egg wash, doing your best to keep it away from the edges.
- Coat the undersides of the other two spiders with egg wash and gently place them on top of the two spiders with raspberry filling, pressing down to seal in the filling. Some raspberry juices may leak out so carefully wipe this up with a paper towel. Chill the hand pies another 10 minutes.
- Trim any excess dough so that the tops and bottoms of each hand pie line up perfectly. Brush the top of all two spiders with egg wash and sprinkle with turbinado sugar.
- Bake the hand pies for 25-28 minutes or until they are golden brown.
- Enjoy!
Notes
- I strongly recommend printing this template on cardstock.
- If you don’t have turbinado sugar, you can use granulated or coarse sugar.
- If at any point your dough becomes difficult to work with, make sure to pop it into the fridge to chill. You never want your dough to become too warm or the butter will melt. This is why it's also helpful to roll it out on parchment so it's easy to stick a cookie sheet under it and transfer it to the fridge for a break if needed.
- Leftover hand pies should be stored in an airtight container and eaten with the next day or two. They are best eaten fresh but can be reheated slightly in the microwave or oven.
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