Chocolate Pudding Hand Pies. Healthy Makeover.

Remember those hand-held fruit pies that you ate as a kid? There was a chocolate flavor too. Well despite the pleasant childhood nostalgia, there's not much nice to say about those artificially flavored and colored pies. The Hostess 'Cherry Pie' ingredients tell it all: Red 40. 50% your RDA of saturated fat per pie. Yuck. So I decided to test out my own recipe for Vegan Chocolate Pudding Hand Pies. First I made some soy chocolate pudding. Then I made some hearty-grained biscuit-style dough. Put them together and my pies were born. The flavors were dreamy, although I do have a few tips for making them even better next time. Check out my recipe and what I'd do differently...

The Good. I love my crust. It had more of a biscuit flavor than a pie crust flavor, but I liked that. I loved the complex flavors of the dough. I put a lot of healthy ingredients in the dough, so the guilt factor of eating 'chocolate pie' goes way down. I also loved my filling. I've been making variations of this vegan chocolate pudding for a long time, so I knew it would turn out nicely. I added a pinch of cayenne which created a mild spiciness reminiscent of a Mexican hot chocolate.

The Bad. The ratio of crust to filling was a little off. I was rushing a bit and didn....

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