chocolate-raspberry hand-pies

i haven't made this yet, but i bought frozen raspberries today and if i wasn't so sick, and ready for bed (at almost 6:30.... hmmmm) i would make it today.

my sister bought be "vegan pie in the sky" for christmas, which features a raspberry pie with balsamic vinegar, crust recipes with cocoa powder, and many recipes for individual hand pies.  but i want all three - chocolate-crusted hand pie with that balsamic-hinted raspberry filling.

the handpies in "vegan pie" are square, but i'm making round ones.  maybe i should use the regular dough instead of puffy pie dough, but hell, i'm changing the dough recipe all around anyway so who the fuck cares.

so this is how i'm going to do it:

filling:
1 bag (2.5 cups) frozen raspberries
1.5 T cornstarch
1 T balsamic vinegar
1/3 c shugar
shake of salt
mix, crumbling together, then RETURN TO FREEZER.

handpie dough (i thought it would be too much dough but then i realized i want to make them in a muffin tin instead of round which might take more dough.):
1.5 c flour (probably combo buckwheat/multi-grain? i'll let you know)
.5 c black cocoa powder (because I have it)
3 T sugar
1/2 t salt
1/2 t baking powder
1/2 c butter
1/2 c sour cream
1/4 c soymilk
add more flour if necessary.

roll out choco dough.  use a largish bowl to cut out pieces and fit each into pie tin.  roll out dough and cut out circles that will cover the dough (maybe with a fun star cut out in the middle to go on top?)
make sure your oven is preheated to 350 before proceeding.
then take out frozen pie filling, mash, and fill the pies quickly, cover and seal, and bake.

yum.

i'm excited for tomorrow/whenever i stop feeling like shit.