Pumpkin Pasties!

Last week I mentioned that I would be cooking a tasty treat from the Unofficial Harry Potter Cookbook by Dinah Bucholz.  Pumpkin pasties are kind of like those fruit pies you buy at the gas station, but these are probably healthier and they taste a lot better.  Plus, they're MAGICAL!!!  Woo!

For pumpkin pasties you make a dough, like for a pie crust.  You have to refrigerate it for a couple of hours after making it so that it won't separate when you roll it out.

While the dough is cooling you should make the pumpkin filling with a big ol' can of pumpkin (not pumpkin pie filling) and put some spices in it (though I think, if you really wanted to, you could just use the pie filling).  When you roll the dough out, you cut out a bunch of circles, about 6 inches.  Put some of the filling on the circle, leaving an inch or so all around.

Fold the dough in half and smush the edges together with a fork.  Make a couple cuts in the top so it can vent.    Line them up on a cookie sheet and bake them until the edges are a little golden brown.

You can even put a little whipped cream on top, but I don't think that's entirely necessary.