On July 12, you can get jam-filled, icing-topped four-square-inch hand pies made with love in Brooklyn at coffee shops across the country.
Okay, at Starbucks.
The strawberry or brown sugar-flavored tarts will be labelled Megpies, because they’ll be Megpies.
Owner Meghan Ritchie started selling baked goods from her New York City stoop once a week in 2011—“I was waiting tables at the time and working in theater,” she says—and that grew into a collaboration with jam company Anarchy in a Jar in 2012. “I did some work for them and the owner said, ‘Oh, you bake? Make something that includes the jam and we can sell it at our Smorgasburg [food fair] booth,’” says Ritchie. Megpies, hand pies filled with preserves instead of the more traditional stewed, chopped fruit, were born. Think of them as Pop Tarts that went to finishing school. The idea for the final touch came courtesy of Ritchie’s grandmother: “She was a bit of a sugar addict, and we partook in a lot of after-school frosting projects,” says Ritchie, though the icing recipe is her own.
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