Let me introduce my new most favorite pie to you:
The cherry pie – My dear readers,
My dear readers – The cherry pie!
This might possibly be the most delicious pie on the face of the Earth.
Or, even better – in the universe.
And if there is a multiverse, then there too.
I got amazed by how scrumptiously such a simple pie can taste.
Absolutely yummy and finger-lickin’ (or in more civilized households – fork-lickin’).
But in our household it’s definitely something between finger-lickin’ and plate-lickin’.
Well, welcome to my world.
And now something about the GIVEAWAY…
Because I think that kitchen gadgets of any kind are the next best thing (right after the cherry pie) I’ve prepared this cute giveaway for you.
It’s a CHERRY PITTER.
And it’s simply awesome.
TO ENTER (Contest closed. Thank you.)
To enter this giveaway, just answer the following question in the ‘Comments section’ of this post:
“What is you favorite dessert?”
THE RULES
- One entry per person, please.
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(So together you can have three entries.)
Winner will be selected at random and announced on Thursday (June 10).
Good luck, everybody!
(Contest closed. Thank you.)
And now, back to the cherry pie…
These are the ingredients.
So simple.
1. To make the crust, place the flour, butter, sugar, salt and water into the bowl of your electric mixer.
2. Mix until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
3. Then work with your hands until the dough comes together and you’ve formed a nice, compact ball.
4. Place the dough into a bowl, wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least one hour.
5. Meanwhile, we can prepare the cherry filling.
In a saucepan, cook the cherries in water for 10 minutes.
6. Mix together the sugar and cornstarch and add to cherries.
(There’s this thing you should really know about me. I have the shortest attention span of all the human beings that have ever lived on this planet. So here I go – taking a picture of one tablespoon cornstarch being added to the sugar which caused me to completely forget about the second tablespoon cornstarch that I should have used as well. The result – my pie was a little more ‘runny’ than it should have been. But don’t worry – I am okay with that.)
7. Cook the cherry mixture until it thickens – about 5 minutes.
8. Cool slightly before using to fill your pie shell.
9. Remove the dough from the fridge and place it onto a well-floured surface.
10. Cut it in about ‘2/3 : 1/3′ ratio (… or, as I so like to say – cut it into a bigger and smaller half – here, I said it. Logical nonsense yet so relieving).
11. To form the pie shell, roll out the ‘bigger half’ on a floured surface into a 14-inch (35 cm) round.
12. Wrap around your rolling pin and carefully unroll over a 9-inch (23 cm) pie plate.
13. Fit gently into the bottom and the side of the plate. Use kitchen shears to trim the dough to a 1-inch overhang.
(I made those little holes on the bottom with a fork and I really don’t know why I made them.)
14. Then go on and fill the shell with the delicious filling.
15. Then grab the ‘smaller half’ of the dough, roll it out into a 14-inch (35 cm) round as well.
16. Using a sharp knife, cut it into even strips (you can use a ruler to guide you).
17. This is how I formed the lattice.
- Picture 1 – To form a lattice top, lay out four to seven (seven in my case) strips on top of the filling.
- Picture 2 – Fold back every other strip.
- Picture 3 – Place one long strip of dough perpendicular to the parallel strips, as shown.
- Picture 4 – Unfold the folded strips over the perpendicular strip and take the parallel strips that are running underneath (!) the perpendicular strip and fold them back over the perpendicular strip.
- Picture 5 – Lay down a second perpendicular strip of dough next to the first strip, with some space between the strips. Unfold the folded parallel strips over the second strip. And again take the parallel strips that are running underneath the perpendicular strip and fold them back over the perpendicular strip.
- Pictures 6 and 7 - Continue this process until the weave is complete over the top of the pie.
- Picture 8 – Trim the parts of the strips that are longer than the dough underneath.
- Picture 9 – Fold back the rim of the shell over the edge of the lattice strips and crimp the rim with your fingertips and knuckle.
Or you can just forget the whole lattice thing and cut out some little star shapes and place them on top of the filling.
There you go.
This is the finished lattice – still, I guess it’s really worth a try.
18. Just for kicks, you can brush the top of the lattice with a lightly beaten egg yolk.
19. Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for about 45 minutes (or until golden brown).
20. Place the baked pie on a wire rack to cool for about 2-3 hours.
And most importantly – enjoy, dear friends!
Oh WOW..
I don’t even like pie but these pictures have me drooling! What a beautiful lattice crust and the cherries look so sweet. I bet it was gone in seconds!
So many desserts….so little time! I guess I would have have to say my favorite dessert is dark chocolate ice cream!
wow this is an awesome delicious pie, one of my favourite!
By far the passion-fruit souffle with homemade passion-fruit ice cream from Vong’s Thai Kitchen in Chicago. Which is now, to my dismay, closed down. But it was SO good. you dip a spoon full of the ice cream into the souffle and it would get all melty and amazing. Oh man oh man.
Ps. I’m making this pie as we speak. *Fingers crossed.*
-Kaysie
no kidding. my favorite dessert is cherry pie. homemade.
yours looks delicious and beautiful.
Strawberry-rhubarb pie, hands down.
Beautiful lattice work! My favoriet dessert would have to be lemon curd with fresh strawberries.
Beautiful! I can’t wait to make it.
My favorite dessert is creme brulee, with cherry pie coming in closing behind for second place.
My favorite dessert? That’s easy – Southern Banana Pudding. No wait – it’s red velvet cake. Hold one, that’s not it – it’s dark chocolate truffles. Well… but the French serve cheese for dessert and I really love a good roquefort…
Anything chocolate…hands down!
My favorite dessert is warm pie ala mode, vanilla ice cream only!
My favorite dessert is a Cherry turnover. Thank you for posting your Cherry Pie Recipe. Your Cherry Pie is picture perfect. I must make this for the 4th of July family picnic. Thanks for the lattice lesson…and for sharing your favorite pie!!
This will be the first year the cherry trees in my yard produce, I’m so excited to get started whittling through the cherry recipes I have accumulated, gonna give your pie a try!
Oh, my! It has to be PIE! With ice cream or toppings and such. Pie is what I love, it’s like heaven above. I don’t like anything else quite as much!
That cherry pie looks amazing! Bets it goes great with a glass of chocolate milk! YUM! It just so happens that CHERRY PIE IS MY FAVORITE DESSERT! I also love Black Forest Cake…hehehee love the cherries!
My favorite dessert is the perfect chocolate cream pie. It has to be light and fluffy, yet full of deep chocolate flavor. Not pudding like, more of a cream or mousse texture…
Cherry Pie, of course!
My favorite dessert is actually cherry pie. Has been since I was a small child. I love this recipe here shown today. I will be trying it soon and compare it to the one I make.
my favorite dessert of all time
Frozen Chocolate Mousse Squares
12 OREO Cookies, crushed
1/4 cup butter or margarine, melted
2 tubs (8 oz. each) PHILADELPHIA Cream Cheese Spread
1 can (14 oz.) sweetened condensed milk
4 squares BAKER’S Semi-Sweet Chocolate, melted
1 cup thawed COOL WHIP Whipped Topping
9-inch square pan with foil, with ends extending over sides of pan. Mix cookie crumbs and butter in prepared pan; press onto bottom of pan.
BEAT cream cheese spread in large bowl with mixer until creamy. Gradually beat in milk. Blend in chocolate. Whisk in COOL WHIP. Spoon over crust.
FREEZE 6 hours. Remove from freezer 15 min. before serving. Use foil handles to lift dessert from pan. Let dessert stand at room temperature to soften slightly before cutting to serve.
Garnish with chocolate curls just before serving. To make the curls, melt 2 additional squares BAKER’S Semi-Sweet Chocolate. Spread with spatula into very thin layer on baking sheet. Refrigerate 10 min. or until chocolate is firm but still pliable. Push a metal spatula firmly along the baking sheet, under the chocolate, so the chocolate curls as it is pushed. (If chocolate is too firm to curl, let stand a few minutes at room temperature; refrigerate again if it becomes too soft.) Use a toothpick to carefully place chocolate curls on waxed paper-covered tray. Refrigerate 15 min. or until firm. Use toothpick to arrange curls on dessert. Freeze any remaining curls in airtight container for up to 6 months.
I love pie, my favorite pie is red raspberry pie and then a good chocolate pie…not pudding.
My family favorite desssert is a deep dish CHERRY PIE. My daughter loves the dark, sweet variety of cherry pie the best, but we love any kind, freshly baked with a sugarcrusted lattice topping!!
Love the way you did the crust. Going to try it with fresh berries from the fruit stand here in Corpus Christi. Thanks~
My favorite desert is my mom’s banana split cake. Thank goodness we found the recipe when she passed away. I try to make it every holiday now. I’m always in charge of desserts.
Can’t wait to make this looks so yummy, My favorite is banana split pie.
my favorite is lemon cheesecake yum!!!!!!!!!!!!!
cherry pie IS my favorite! can’t wait to try this one!
I have always loved cherry pie. This looks fabulous! My favorite is cherry pie, but I also like Mississippi Mud. Cherries and chocolate always my favorite anything.
My favorite dessert is cherry pie!
My very favorite dessert is Cheesecake. I love all kinds too.
I can’t nail it down to one, so I offer up my faves in category form:
Fave cake: Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
Fave cream or custard dessert: Flan
Fave Pie: Apple Pie with Cinnamon Ice Cream
Fave Ice Cream: Peppermint (Chocolate) Chip
This is the most excellent cherry pie I have ever seen. Can’t wait to go out and buy myself some cherry pie.
My favorite dessert is peach cobbler with ice cream. Yum!!
Cherry Pie has ALWAYS been my favorite pie. When I was a child in Michigan we had a cherry tree behind the house. This brings back memories of my Mom’s cooking. Thank you.
I made a wonderful cherry pie last year. The cherries were practically given away at .99. My favorite desert is strawberry pizza. My mother in law made it for me the first birthday i had after i started dating her son. It was wonderful. I make it always on special occasions.
This looks so good! I’m going to have to try it. (And I’ve always wondered how to do the lattice crust, thank you for the pictures!)
Hard to pick just ONE favorite desert but lately I’ve been craving lemon bars. I always crave lemon bars when the temperature gets hot outside. They remind me of my grandmother and how she used to make them with me. No other lemon bar has ever tasted as good as my grandmother’s.
I have always been the oddball of the family growing up in a family of eight kids. My favorites are Cherry Pie Followed up by Peach and then Lemon Meringue. I am not sure how I found my love for these flavors but even now to this day with my own family the only time I get to enjoy these flavors if a go to a place that makes really great pie. I do make them once in a blue moon but then I hear the moans and groans that I am only making pie for me but in the end they do eat it and usually there are no seconds left to go around.
This looks like a nice easy recipe. The reason for the holes in the bottom is to avoid air pockets and your crust bubbling up and spilling out your filling.
And my favorite dessert is Bread Pudding with Vanilla Sauce.
“…and when the day comes when I die,
please bury me with cherry pie”.
Cherry pie is and has always been my favorite dessert. I’m disappointed that many restaurants don’t have cherry pie on their menus. It’s rare to find a bakery that sells them.
Such a wonderful dessert and the only way one can enjoy it is by baking it yourself. (and then run off with it to some obsure corner so that you can have it all to yourself).
Thank you for such a beautiful recipe!
Just found your site via thekitchn.com. I just bought two quarts of sour and sweet cherries today! So a cherry pitter would really come in handy (hint, hint). My favorite dessert changes often, but lemon pound cake with lemon glaze in the poked-in holes, homemade gingerbread cake eaten out-of-hand, and pretty much any kind of fruit clafoutis (rhubarb is awesome) are all way up there.
Of course, you can’t go wrong with fresh sugared summer fruit in heavy cream, either.
Lemon meringue pie from the recipe on the Kingsford’s corn starch box. I’ve never been able to duplicate my mother’s technique, so I’ve stopped trying. I haven’t had LMP for over 10 years now, but I still remember how it tastes.
tough question. I love fruit anything for dessert. fruit or chocolate. or even better, white chocolate and fruit in a fruit pizza mmmm
or mint chocolate ice cream sandwiches
Look amazing!!!!! I must try it ASAP
and my favorite is CHOCOLATE!!! look at my favorite chocolate recipes:
http://terarecipes.com/recipe_search_engine/specialrecipe/chocolate-dessert
That pie is pure awesomeness.
And I am actually expected to pick a favorite dessert? What a cruel choice! In the winter, chocolate is my favorite dessert, but now that fruit is in season, my favorite dessert is fresh fruit. I have fresh picked strawberries in the fridge right now.
My favorite pie is rhubarb.
My favorite dessert is Cherry Cobbler with Vanilla Ice Cream.
I love, love, love ice cream. I like any kind but especially chocolate.
Homemade ice cream. Can’t pick a favorite flavor, though, I’ve made way too many. My ice cream maker was a solid investment.
In a couple of weeks, there is a cherry recipe competition at food52 (www.food52.com), check it out – you have to sign up and while I want to win, this pie looks superbly gorgeous………If you beat me, I’d be happy (no, really…I would …try to be……happy)!
Oh, THANK YOU, you’re soooo kind to let me know. I’ll definitely join the contest. Thanks again. Have a nice weekend.
Made this last night, and it was delicious! I think I’ll make this my go-to pie crust: it was really easy to handle, and I like that it’s not sweet, it gives a nice contrast to the filling.
One question: do you think the filling can be frozen for later use? Cherries are quite cheap now, but almost never around the rest of the year, and it’d be great to be able to just thaw some filling and make this pie whenever I want.
Oh Hi! I’m really glad you like the pie. And about the filling… hmm, yeah, I think that cherries or cherry pie filling can be frozen. It’s a great idea! Happy baking.
Petra
could you substitute the cherries for apples?
Sure, you could. For apples, don’t cook them in water – just mix them with sugar (and some cinnamon would be great too) …and that’s the filling. Then just fill your crust and the pie will be great. Let me know if you do it this way! Happy baking!
Petra