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Berry BlogHop: Chocolate Dipped Berry Empanadas

I’ve had my eye on these empanadas for a while now.  My friend down the street can make empanada dough from scratch and fills them with so many yummy things and then CakeSpy posted a recipe for peanut butter filled empanadas… I’ve been inspired.

So for this months Berry BlogHop I decided I needed to fill empanadas with berries and dunk them in chocolate.

Oh yeah.  OH YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH.

Chocolate Dipped Berry Empanadas

Chocolate Dipped Berry Empanadas

Yield: 45-50 Empanadas
Prep Time: 30 minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes
Total Time: 40 minutes

Flaky crust filled with sweet berries dipped in chocolate... can't get much better than this!

Ingredients

Empanadas

  • 2 boxes premade pie crust (4 crusts)
  • 2 12oz bags frozen berries (I used bags that contained blackberries, blueberries, raspberries, strawberries and cherries) NOTE: You can also use fresh berries - you'll need about 4 cups worth.
  • 4 tbsp butter
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 1 Tbsp vanilla
  • 3 Tbsp corn starch
  • 1 egg + 1 Tbsp water (for egg wash)
  • sugar, for dusting

Chocolate Ganache

  • 1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chunks
  • 1 Tbsp butter
  • 1/3 cup milk or cream

Instructions

Empanadas

  1. Bring pie crusts to room temperature.
  2. Preheat oven to 450 F degrees. Line baking sheet with parchment paper.
  3. In a large pan, melt the butter on high heat.
  4. Add the berries and sugar to the pan and stir to coat the berries.
  5. Once the berry juice beings to bubble, remove 1/2 cup of the juice and combine it with 2-3 Tbsp of corn starch. Whisk the juice and starch together until all lumps are gone. Add this mixture back into the pan with the berries. Bring to a boil to thicken, stirring often and cook for 2-3 minutes.
  6. Once the mixture has thickened, remove from heat and allow to cool for 15 minutes.
  7. On a lightly floured surface, unroll pie crusts. Using a rolling pin, flatten out crust until it's as thin as a dime.
  8. Using a 3in round cookie cutter, cut dough rounds and place on cookie sheet.
  9. Brush egg wash around edges of dough round.
  10. Spoon 1-2 tsp of berry filling into the center of each round. Fold the round over and press the edges closed with a fork.
  11. Bake 9-11 minutes or until golden brown.
  12. Cool on wire racks.

Chocolate Ganache

  1. Melt butter and chocolate together on low heat until smooth.
  2. Add the cream and stir until combined and smooth.
  3. Dip cooled empanada in the melted ganache.
  4. Set on wire rack to cool and harden before serving.

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Suzanne

Tuesday 17th of April 2012

beautiful empanadas and dipped in chocolate, what's not to love here! Sending you berry love!

erika

Tuesday 10th of April 2012

Touche. A berry jealous touche :)

Asmita

Tuesday 10th of April 2012

Berry empanadas dipped in chocolate sounds divine!!!

Linda

Saturday 7th of April 2012

Impressive idea!! Like little hand pies too!!! I love that they are dipped in chocolate!. Berries and chocolate are my favorite combination!

Cindy

Saturday 7th of April 2012

Your statement of "oh yeah" is correct, these look awesome!! Sending you some weekend #berry love! Cindy

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