Cherry pie. Cherry pie is just about the easiest fruit pie to make. Sour cherries–the kind you need for pie–are rarely available fresh or frozen, so the canned variety usually is the only option for most cooks. Not only do canned cherries make good pies, but there's also no peeling, coring, seeding, pitting or slicing the fruit.
You can have Cherry pie using 8 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Cherry pie
- Prepare 1 of recipe 2 shell pie crust. (see my flaky pie crust recipe).
- It’s 6-7 cups of fresh picked and pitted sour cherries. (you can use frozen. use about 2.5 lbs).
- You need 1 cup of granulated sugar.
- It’s 1 tsp. of vanilla.
- Prepare 6 tablespoons of cornstarch.
- Prepare 2 Tbsp of butter for dotting.
- You need 2 Tbsp of milk (to brush on crust).
- Prepare 1 Tbsp of sugar (to sprinkle on milk.).
In a small bowl, mix the sugar and cornstarch together. Pour this mixture into the hot cherries and mix. Cherry Pie Recipes Cherries tucked into a flaky crust make for a sweet indulgence. You'll want to make our crowd-pleasing, most popular renditions again and again.
Cherry pie instructions
Preheat oven to 325.
In a mixing bowl combine cherries, vanilla, sugar, and cornstarch. Mix well. Let stand 5-10 minutes..
Roll out first crust and line pie plate with it..
Pour cherry mixture into pie plate.
Roll out top crust. I like to cut strips and make a lattice top..
Dot pie with butter and place top crust on pie.
Brush with milk and sprinkle with sugar.
Place pie in oven on the middle rack and bake 35- 40 minutes, until crust is brown and pie is bubbly.
Allow pie to sit at least one hour before cutting to allow sauce to thicken..
Two cans of apple pie filling can be substituted for cherry pie filling. For a pretty pie, cut shapes out of your top crust using a small cookie cutter or knife. My first cherry pie and ur was amazing!! Combine the cornstarch and lemon juice in a small bowl and add it to the cherry mixture. Cherry pie is just about the easiest fruit pie to make.
