Our Hand Pie & Pocket Maker is a game-changer for easily creating baked goods with beautifully round, crimped edges and just the right amount of filling. Keep reading to find out how to use it, how to pick your dough, and great ideas to help you get started.
1, 2, 3, Easy: Basic Recipe for Hand Pies or Pockets
- Choose your dough. Each round the dough cutter makes is 4¼” (11 cm) around. You will need one round per pocket or two rounds for each hand pie. Recommended doughs are listed below.
- Make enough filling for 1T (15 mL) per pocket or 2T (30 ML) for each hand pie.
- Bake at 375°F (190°C) for 15–17 minutes or until golden brown
Pick a Project and Choose Your Filling
Not sure how to get started? Check out these ideas—then start experimenting with different combinations of dough and filling!
- Make stuffed pretzel pockets or custom-made cheesy pizza pockets.
- Looking for a fresh take on breakfast that’s easy to eat on the go? Fill some pastry crust with cream cheese and dust it with cinnamon sugar.
- Try your hand at custom toaster pastries.
- Bake a refreshingly sweet mini galette filled with summer berries.
- Honey and walnuts paired with pastry dough make a simple baklava.
- Need a mid-day pick-me-up? Go for a mini pot pie, pizza flatbread, or tomato-cheddar tarts topped with mushroom and onion!
Choose Your Dough
Using different types of dough will give you different flavors and textures—but some work better than others. Some doughs will give you a good seal, but the fluting won’t be as noticeable. Others will give you a great seal and look amazing. And others…well, we don’t recommend using them with this product.
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Two Kinds of Pockets
Full Circles
For hand pies and other full, round pastries, cut two circles of dough, place one of the circles on the foldable base, add two scoops of filling, top with the other circle of dough, and press down.
Half Circles
For half-circle pockets like dumplings or empanadas, cut a circle of dough, place it on top of the foldable base, add one scoop of filling, and close the foldable base.
Tips for Success
- For sticky doughs, dust the mold with flour or brush the foldable base and mold with cooking oil.
- If you’re using a filling that may expand or steam as it cooks (looking at you, fruit pies), cut a slit in the top of the dough, so the filling doesn’t ooze out as it cooks.
- Brush water or egg wash along the edge of the dough before pressing your pie or pocket to help seal it. The egg wash will also give your dough a glossy look and help with browning.
If you’d rather start with a recipe, this is a great one to use. These beignets are made in an air fryer and the flavor will remind you of churros. Delicious!
What's in Your Pocket?
Tell us what combination you tried and, go ahead, show off a little bit and send us a picture!
Do you have any suggestions for a Gluten free dough recipe that will work well?
I have used King Arthur gluten free pie crust in my recipe before. It worked pretty well. https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/gluten-free-pie-crust-recipe
Maybe ask at the gluten free bakery?Marge
I would like the recipe as well. We tried a gluten free dough and it did not work.
Does it come with recipes?
Pepperoni, cheese, ham, sauce & sausage. Lovely gadget.
This is so easy to use and kids love doing it because they feel a part of making a meal..Delicious pies with sauces to dip in..
how long do they need to bake and at what temperature?
I purchased this and was disappointed with it. I see that I could have purchased a stainless still one for less than half the price. Probably will never use it.
Didn’t work for me. I am going to try again today and see what happens.
A family member bought this off of my party. It is way too small. It should be advertised for a kid’s item for play. Very disappointed in the size. You can’t get enough filling to bread ratio. Who would put a tablespoon of something for an empanada? and you would have to make so many just feed even a small group! It is faster and easier to make by hand
Just trying out my new hand pie maker. What temp and how long do you bake???
How long do they need to bake and at what temperature? (no answer from above)
Would greatly appreciate links to recipes on this page! I want to try these in an Air Fryer, too.
If you go to the pampered chef webpage, click on recipes, and type in hand pie, it will bring up a bunch of recipes
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Can’t find any specific recipes on your website, just ideas
Go on Pampered Chef’s website and click on Recipes. Then search Hand Pie and Pocket Maker and it will give you several recipes to use with it. I especially love the 5 minute dough recipe for my Pizza Pockets. When making the Beignets, instead of using flaky biscuits that have a lot of additives that I don’t want in my food, AND for Gluten Free, I purchased, Bob’s Red Mill Gluten Free Baking and Biscuit mix. Rolled it thin and it was delicious.
Any time you have a Pampered Chef product and need recipes for it, just go their website, type in the tool and then choose recipes. ALSO, if you have an ingredient, i.e. raspberries and you want to find recipes for it — just go to the recipes tab, type your ingredient in and it will bring up all recipes that have that ingredient in it. I love that abilitly to find recipes. Enjoy!
What if you don’t have a air friyer?
All you have to do is go on YouTube and either type in name of product or hand pies. Or hand pies using Air Fryer. Or how to bake hand pies. Or how to deep fry hand pies. And that is where you will find your answers.
I did that, but there was an awful lot to dig through. I found a BUNCH of videos but very few actually mentioned the bake time, etc. I found none that gave me directions for baking in a regular oven.
For all those wondering…I baked mine in my PC Air Fryer for 14 minutes on “Bake” setting, switching trays halfway through. They came out perfectly.
Looks to me that you can use oven at 400 degrees for about 10-12 minutes . But time will vary depending upon which kind of crust/recipe you use. Like suggested, search YouTube. That’s what I am doing.
I love the hand pie maker. But as a purchaser of other Pamper Chef products in the past, I was very disappointed that it did not come with the instructions and recipe cards like the older products did.
It was so convenient to have those cards to put right into your recipe box.
I often just either type in the recipe on my computer and then print it out on a 3×5 or 4×6 index card. Can control size and info better than just scanning and printing on a sheet of paper.
Totally agree! Hope you are listening PamperedChef!
Nice gadget but should have some recipes along with the product. Used it once and was fun for grandkids!
I agree! I wish I had read this blog before I purchased it.
Made these with my almost 4 year old red headed grandson❤ blueberry pies picked local last summer. He also likes making cookies with the medium cookie scoop, we always make enough to send home for mom dad and sisers!.💗
I got the pie maker, and I have used it a few times. It would of been nice to have some basic recipes to follow so you could get an idea on length of time to cook and at what temp. I tried to go online, and all of the videos that I watched had ingredients, but gave no cooking information. I do not do a lot of baking so some direction would of been appreciated.
Would have been nice to have gotten recipes with this so we would know how to make and cook items. Older Pampered Chef items always had recipes with the products
Would have been nice to have some recipes to go with it. Disappointed that it did not.
Missing recipe(s) like older products. PC, you messed up with this one!
I rarely bake or cook at all. Grilled cheese, mac & cheese, hamburger helper, and frozen pizza is about as advanced as I get. I was invited to a friend’s PC party, so I thought I would older something to help her out. This looked like it would be something that I could use to make pizza pockets or something like that. I assumed it would come with instructions/recipes. I have no clue how to use it or make anything. I found some info that talked about using an air fryer, but I don’t have one of those. How do I use this for my oven?
For mixed berry hand pies, the baking time for regular oven is 25 minutes at 375 degrees. I hope this helps give a starting point for those wanting to use a regular oven to bake and not sift through oceans of videos to find the info.
Oh no no recipes. I am in trouble
The possibilities are endless, I made cheese/chicken turnovers with mine the first time, used canned cornbread biscuits, cooked in my oven with the directions on the can of biscuits. I’m ready to try fruit in some, just depends on what kind of dough you use. I LOVE mine with I had it years ago. I’ve made them with grbeef and cheese, cut up ham lunch meat and cheese etc.. as for the air fryer, I use the oven feature and watch it so it doesn’t over cook.. sometimes I shorten the time 5or 10 min and check it. I LOVE IT.
Can you use regular bread with this
I bought this hoping I could use it to make uncrustable type sandwiches for my kids but it does a lousy job cutting and sealing bread.
How do you cook it. If in the microwave for how long
I actually would not recommend cooking dough in the microwave.