Quick and Easy Gluten Hand Pies: Air Fryer and Oven Baked Options

Wait until you taste these flaky, gluten free hand pies! They have a buttery crust wrapped around a delicious fruity filling. These homemade Gluten Free Hand Pies are so easy to make in under 30 minutes! Drizzle them with icing, or enjoy them plain!

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I am so excited to share this new recipe with you. It uses my popular Gluten Free Pie Crust recipe and can be made in your air fryer or in your oven. You can make them in any shape, from traditional to holiday shapes, so grab your favorite cookie cutters if you like.

This gluten free hand pie recipe is really flexible recipe, and you can use ANY fruit filling in this recipe, even canned peaches! You can use pie filling or even this apple filling that I used in my Gluten Free Apple Crumble Bars.

If you are trying to decide on what air fryer to get, I have a great list of the best air fryers for gluten free. I include a great pros and cons list for each model.

Why This Recipe Is Great:

1. If you love super flaky hand pies but are short of time, you will love my new Gluten free Air Fryer Hand Pies Recipe!
2. The flaky crust is from my tried and true gluten free pie crust recipe, which gets rave reviews!
3. Use any filling from fruit to Nutella!
4. From start to finish, you can make these flaky hand pies in under 30 minutes!

I have several incredible gluten free pie recipes. Let me know which you like best :-). You may also love these Gluten Free Cranberry Hand Pies. They are a great way to use up leftover cranberry sauce too!

Ingredient Notes:

• Gluten Free Flour Blend - I tested this recipe with Cup4Cup and King Arthur Measure for Measure. Although both worked well, I believe the Cup4Cup made a better hand pie because of a much flakier crust. That doesn't mean others will not work; I have not tested other flours.
• Sugar - Use cane sugar.
• Xanthan Gum - If your gluten free flour blend doesn’t contain xanthan gum or guar gum, please add 1 teaspoon.
• Unsalted Butter - To make this recipe dairy-free, substitute the butter for vegan butter.
• Eggs - Use large eggs.
• Fruit Filling

The flaky crust is based on my popular Gluten Free Pie Crust recipe.

Allergen Information:

This recipe is gluten-free, soy-free, and nut-free. Make it dairy-free by using plant-based butter and a dairy-free flour blend. (Cup4Cup has milk powder, so do not use this blend.) Note that I have not tested any egg replacers in this recipe.

If you are gum-free and can not have xanthan gum, use my DIY Gluten Free Flour Blend. It works well in this recipe.

Hand Pie Filling Ideas:

• Nutella
• Pie filling
• Fresh fruit (tossed with melted butter, brown sugar, and cinnamon)
• Canned fruit (I used canned peaches)
• Smores with chocolate and mini marshmallows

How To Make Gluten Free Hand Pies:

For this recipe, I used my Ninja Foodi Air Fryer, but any air fryer will work well. Note the temperatures I used may vary slightly as many air fryers have different temperature settings.

Step 1: Add your dry ingredients to a bowl and whisk to blend.

Step 2: Add cut cold butter chunks into the bowl with the dry ingredients. Use a pastry blender to cut the butter into the flour. You can also freeze your butter and use a cheese grater to grate the butter into the flour mixture.

Step 3: This is what your flour blend will look like with the cut-in butter.

Step 4: Mix the water and egg to create the flaky dough.

Step 5: Place the dough onto the wax paper. Dust the dough and wax paper with a little flour if needed.

🔑 Sandi says: Every gluten free flour blend has a different grain-to-starch ratio and may vary slightly on how sticky the dough is. Use your best judgment so you can work the dough easily.

Step 6: Roll the dough to ¼ or your preferred thickness. Use a large circle cutter to cut out your dough circles. You can also use any shape of cookie cutter.

Step 7: Spoon some fruit onto each half of each circle of dough. Be sure to leave the edges plain so they can be crimped later.

Step 8: Fold the dough over the fruit. Use a fork to press the edges together around the dough. Cut 2-3 air holes for the steam from cooking fruit to vent out. This will help prevent the fruit juice from coming out of the seams.

Step 9: Brush each hand pie with an egg wash. This will allow the top to brown. *Don't forget, I include oven baking directions below.

Step 10: Sprinkle each hand pie with coarse sugar. Preheat the air fryer to 350º F for 5 minutes.

Step 11: Remove the air fryer basket and spray a little oil on the basket of the air fryer, then place the hand pies in the basket. Make sure air can circulate around each hand pie.

Step 12: Cook the hand pies in the air fryer at 350º F for 12 minutes. (If your hand pies are large, you may need to set the cooking time to 15 minutes.)

Step 13: Allow the gluten free hand pies to cool and drizzle with icing.

Oven Baking Directions:

• If you prefer to bake your hand pies, follow the assembly directions above.
• Preheat the oven to 350º F.
• Place the hand pies onto a parchment paper-lined baking sheet. This is important because it will be hard to remove if fruit leaks and bakes on your cookie sheet.
• Bake the gluten free hand pies for 15-20 minutes. The baking time will vary depending on the size of your hand pies.
• Remove the hot hand pies from the oven and place them onto a cooling rack.

Check out those flaky layers!!! If you love pie as much as we do, you will want to check out these 50+ Gluten Free Pie Recipes. You are guaranteed to find some new favorites!

Recipe FAQ:

More Gluten Free Pie Recipes:

• Gluten Free Pecan Pie
• Easy Gluten Free Banana Cream Pie
• Gluten Free Hatch Chile Apple Pie
• Gluten Free Mixed Berry Pie

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This recipe was updated from an older August 2021 post with more recipe details.