Pumpkin and Hazelnut Pies

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And if it’s fall, it’s pumpkin time.

These Mini Pumpkin and Hazelnut Pies have a spicy pastry with a pumpkin and maple syrup filling, baked together with cinnamon and hazelnuts. The creaminess of the pumpkin and the crunchy from the spicy dough and hazelnuts are the perfect combination to be enjoyed with a cup of hot coffee or tea anytime during the day.

Pumpkin and hazelnut pies
Perfect fall mini pies with a spiced pastry and pumpkin and maple syrup filling baked together with cinnamon and hazelnuts.
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Pumpkin and Hazelnut Pies Ingredients for 12 pieces:

Dough

  • 200 g / 1 ⅔ cups plain/all-purpose flour
  • ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 100 g / 6 ½ tablespoons butter, chilled and diced
  • A pinch of salt
  • 30 g / 2 ½ tablespoons icing / confectioners sugar
  • 1 egg, lightly beaten
Pumpkin and Hazelnut Pies Ingredients for the Dough

Filling

  • 100 g / ⅔ cup toasted hazelnuts
  • 2 eggs
  • 150 g / ⅔ cup pumpkin purée 
  • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 75 g / ¼ cup maple syrup
  • 3 tablespoons double/heavy cream
Pumpkin and Hazelnut Pies Ingredients for the Filling

To decorate:

  • 24 toasted hazelnuts
  • 3 tablespoons orange jam to glaze

What you need:

  • 12 x 7 cm / 3-inch mini tart pans or a 12-hole muffin pan (I have used my tart pans which are a little bit larger but the result was pretty too)
  • 9-10 cm / 3 ¼ – 4 inch cookie cutter
  • Baking beans (optional) (I couldn’t find the baking beans so I have used normal dry beans for the blind baking of the tarts)

Now let’s see how to make them, shall we?

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Step-by-Step Instructions to Make Pumpkin and Hazelnut Pies:

Tip the flour into the food processor bowl, add the ground cinnamon, salt, and the chilled, diced butter. Pulse until pale and sand-like in texture.

Add the icing/confectioners’ sugar and mix to combine. Add the beaten egg and pulse again until the dough starts to come together.

Tip the dough out onto the work surface and use your hands to bring it together into a neat ball. Flatten into a disc, cover in clingfilm/plastic wrap, and chill in the fridge for at least 1 hour until firm.

Roll out the chilled dough on a lightly floured work surface to a thickness of no more than 2 mm / 1/16 inch. Using the cookie-cutter, stamp out 12 discs. Alternatively, as I don’t have a cookie-cutter, I have just cut the dough into several pieces and then rolled it out one piece at a time between 2 sheets of baking paper.

Gently press the pastry discs into the prepared tart pans (just sprayed with a little bit of oil), trying not to stretch the dough until evenly lined. Prick the bases with a fork and arrange them on a baking sheet, and chill in the fridge for 20 minutes.

Preheat the oven at 170ºC (325ºF) Gas 3.

Line the tart cases with a square of baking parchment or foil and fill with baking beans or normal beans or rice. Bake in the preheated oven for 10 minutes until pale golden and starting to crisp. Remove the baking beans or rice and parchment foil, and bake for another 1-2 minutes to dry out the bases.

Roughly chop the hazelnuts and divide them between the tarts.

To make the filling, break the eggs into a mixing bowl, add the remaining ingredients: pumpkin purée, cinnamon, maple syrup, heavy cream, and whisk to combine. 

Scoop the mixture into a jug/pitcher and pour into the tarts, filling them evenly. Top each filled tart with the hazelnuts, and bake in the middle shelf of the oven for further 12-15 minutes until just set. 

Remove from the oven and leave to cool to room temperature.

And now for the shiny part, warm the orange jam in a small pan until runny, strain into a bowl through a fine mesh sieve/strainer and brush neatly over the top of each tart. 

Leave to set before serving.

Pumpkin and Hazelnut Pies

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Pumpkin and Hazelnut Pies
Pumpkin and Hazelnut Pies

You may even store these Mini Pumpkin and Hazelnut Pies in an air-tight container in the fridge for a few days.

If you can’t find hazelnuts, you may substitute them with any other nuts that you like, walnuts, pecans, almonds.

Pumpkin and hazelnut pies

Perfect fall mini pies with a spiced pastry and pumpkin and maple syrup filling baked together with cinnamon and hazelnuts.
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Prep Time 50 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Resting Time 1 hour 20 minutes
Course Dessert, sweets
Servings 12
Calories 380 kcal

Equipment

  • 12 x 7 cm / 3-inch mini tart pans or a 12-hole muffin pan (I have used my tart pans which are a little bit larger but the result was pretty too)
  • 9-10 cm / 3 ¼ – 4 inch cookie cutter
  • Baking beans (optional) (I couldn’t find the baking beans so I have used normal beans for the blind baking of the tarts)

Ingredients
  

For the Dough

  • 200 g / 1 ⅔ cups plain/all-purpose flour
  • 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 100 g / 6 ½ tablespoons butter, chilled and diced
  • a pinch of salt
  • 30 g / 2 ½ tablespoons icing / confectioners sugar
  • 1 egg, lightly beaten

For the Filling

  • 100 g / ⅔ cup toasted hazelnuts
  • 2 eggs
  • 150 g / ⅔ cup pumpkin purée
  • 1 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 75 g / ¼ cup maple syrup
  • 3 tbsp double/heavy cream

To decorate:

  • 24 toasted hazelnuts
  • 3 tbsp orange jam to glaze

Instructions
 

  • Tip the flour into the bowl of a food processor, add the ground cinnamon, salt and the chilled, diced butter. Pulse until pale and sand-like in texture. Add the icing/confectioners’ sugar and mix to combine. Add the beaten egg and pulse again until the dough starts to come together.
  • Tip the dough out onto the work surface and use your hands to bring it together into a neat ball. Flatten into a disc, cover in clingfilm/plastic wrap and chill in the fridge for at least 1 hour until firm.
  • Roll out the chilled dough on a lightly floured work surface to a thickness of no more than 2 mm / 1/16 inch. Using the cookie cutter, stamp out 12 discs. Alternatively, as I don’t have a cookie cutter, I have just cut the dough in several pieces and then rolled it out one piece at the time.
  • Gently press the pastry discs into the prepared tart pans (just sprayed with a little bit of oil), trying not to stretch the dough until evenly lined. Prick the bases with a fork and arrange on a baking sheet and chill in the fridge for 20 minutes.
  • Preheat the oven at 170ºC (325ºF) Gas 3.
  • Line the tart cases with a square of baking parchment or foil and fill with baking beans or normal beans or rice. Bake in the preheated oven for 10 minutes until pale golden and starting to crisp. Remove the baking beans or rice and parchment foil, and bake for another 1-2 minutes to dry out the bases.
  • Roughly chop the hazelnuts and divide them between the tarts.
  • To make the filling, break the eggs into a mixing bowl, add the remaining ingredients, and whisk to combine. 
  • Scoop the mixture into a jug/pitcher and pour into the tarts, filling them evenly. Top each filled tart with the hazelnuts and bake in the middle shelf of the oven for further 12-15 minutes until just set. 
  • Remove from the oven and leave to cool to room temperature.
  • And now for the shiny part, warm the orange jam in a small pan until runny, strain into a bowl through a fine mesh sieve/strainer and brush neatly over the top of each tart. 
    Leave to set before serving.
Keyword easy recipes, hazelnuts, home baking, pumpkin, pumpkin and hazelnut pies
Recipe inspiration from Afternoon Tea at Home by Will Torrent.
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