empanadas

Patri of the blog, Asi Son Los Cosas, was our September 2012 Daring Bakers’ hostess and she decided to tempt us with one of her family’s favorite recipes for Empanadas! We were given two dough recipes to choose from and encouraged to fill our Empanadas as creatively as we wished!

I wasn't very creative. I filled my Empanadas with apple pie filling. Brushed them with some an egg wash, sprinkled on some raw sugar, and baked them.

I had spotted this cute mini apple pie cutter/maker at the store and couldn't help but using it for this challenge! I don't like to make pie dough, and as i'm more comfortable with yeasted dough I thought this would be perfect. Turns out that yeasted dough doesn't really like to be rolled thinly and cut using a plastic cutter. The dough tends to shrink back. It did work out, but it was a bit finicky.

We weren't big fans of this, but it's probably my fault. Maybe I should have sweetened the dough more. Or flavored it in some way. I did use butter instead of oil, thinking it would impart it with a buttery taste. I cut some of the salt and added a tbsp of sugar. But it wasn't enough. I also used a mixture of all purpose and bread flour because I didn't have enough bread flour. So that probably had an impact on the texture of the baked dough.

I'm sure my fellow Daring Bakers fared much better than I at this challenge! Hop on over to the Daring Kitchen and have a look at what they came up with!