How to Make Cherry Pie Filling With Canned Cherries

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The All-time Cherry-red Pie Recipe Ever (now with video tutorial!)

by Jean Van't Hul

This is the best cerise pie recipe menstruation for using canned tart cherries. As a cherry pie lover, I've fiddled with recipes over time, and this is the all-time!

Updated Jan 2022

Cherry pie is my all-time favorite dessert.

Chocolate is upward there just doesn't surpass a adept bootleg cherry-red pie in my listen. I used to request cherry pie instead of cake for my birthdays when I was growing upwardly and still make it whenever I become the craving for the sweet-tart fruity goodness.

We still brand this for birthdays, but also make it regularly for parties and nearly all holidays. Maybe not Easter or Halloween, but we've made it for the quaternary of July, Memorial Twenty-four hour period, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New year's day'south Eve.

I've fiddled with various recipes over the years and accept finally settled on a version that is THE All-time Cerise PIE RECIPE ever. Catamenia. Information technology is adapted from a combination of others—primarily from the recipes in The Pie and Pastry Bible by Rose Levy Beranbaum and The Best Recipe by the Cook's Illustrated folks.

It's a canned cherry pie recipe, as canned cherries are readily available year-circular, and I don't have a cherry tree in my backyard (fifty-fifty though I tried!). Still, please annotation that this cherry pie recipe uses cherries canned in water Not canned carmine pie filling.

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Hither's a brief video tutorial showing how to make the cerise pie. It might be helpful to picket earlier you get started.

Doesn't that brand information technology totally doable?! Now hither are the step past pace instructions. (Or jump downwardly to the printable recipe at the lesser of the mail service.)

How to Cook the Best Cherry Pie

First, brand your pie crust

(I'll forgive you if you want to buy yours premade, merely information technology'due south really non hard to make.)

Note: I used to use butter and Crisco (because that's what my Grandma taught me for making the flakiest crust) then I used Earth Rest in place of Crisco just because information technology'south so much ameliorate for y'all (I bought it in sticks, like butter, from the natural foods store and kept them in the freezer). Only now I just make my pie crust with all butter, and it notwithstanding turns out really well.
Next, make your cherry pie filling

Brand the pie filling by mixing the sour cherries plus juice from 1 1/two cans with carbohydrate, cornstarch, salt, and almond extract in a large, heavy-bottomed saucepan.

Bring to a simmer and cook over medium-low heat for about 10 minutes, stirring regularly, or until the liquid is thick and bubbly (partially jelled).

Set aside to absurd completely. You tin can do this step a 24-hour interval ahead if yous want to pace yourself. I oftentimes do.
Gather a beautiful cherry pie

Coil out the lesser pie crust and suit in pie pan. Pour your cooled pie filling in the pan.

Next, roll out the top crust. Use a sharp pocketknife to cutting the top chaff into strips for a lattice crust or use a cookie cutter to make other designs.

Either drape your pinnacle chaff over the pie, if you lot used a cookie cutter pattern, or weave your traditional lattice chaff (if you need instructions for weaving the lattice, here's a YouTube video).
Finally, bake your pie

The house is smelling succulent now!

But await! Don't eat it yet!

You actually desire to let your fresh-baked ruby-red pie absurd for a few hours, until it's totally absurd and the filling has set.

Information technology's okay if you don't. We've been known to swallow it while still warm more than once.

Just think of it as an opportunity to adore the pie on the table, take a few photos, and permit the anticipation build.

And and then… finally… Consume and relish! This sour red pie is especially delicious with whipped cream or vanilla ice cream.

Here'due south the complete recipe! I promise you honey it equally much as I do!

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Writer: Jean Van't Hul
Prep Time: 1 hour
Cook Time: 1 hour
Full Fourth dimension: two hours
Yield: 1 Pie 1x
Category: Dessert

Description

This red pie recipe uses tart or sour cherries and is the Best. Seriously. Plus, by using canned cherries, you can brand it someday of the twelvemonth rather than waiting for fresh cherries.

Pie Crust Ingredients

2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt
ii tablespoons sugar
12 tablespoons unsalted butter, chilled
8 tablespoons Earth Balance, or comparable vegetable shortening, chilled (or simply employ all butter)
8 tablespoons ice h2o

Ingredients for Ruby-red Pie Filling

3 cans tart cherriesin h2o (I purchase Oregon Fruit Products Red Tart Cherries which are often with the canned fruit rather than in the baking alley of the grocery store; y'all tin also club them online)
four tablespoons cornstarch
1 1/4 cups sugar
1/8 teaspoon salt
scant i/4 teaspoon almond extract

Instructions

How to Brand the Pie Crust

Mix the flour, salt, and carbohydrate in a nutrient processor. Cutting butter into smaller pieces and add together to food processor. Pulse a few times. Cut Earth Residuum into smaller pieces and add together to food processor. Pulse a few more than times, until butter and Earth Balance are the size of peas or smaller. Transfer to a big basin. (Annotation: You can practise all this with a pastry blender instead if you lot don't have a nutrient processor.)
Sprinkle 3-4 tablespoons of water ice water over the dough mixture at a time, mixing and pressing with a sturdy rubber spatula until the dough comes together. Separate into two and wrap each one-half in plastic wrap. (I commonly dump the semi-formed dough onto plastic, wrap information technology upwards, so knead it with my hands a fleck until it forms a brawl, and then flatten it somewhat into a disk.) Refrigerate until ready to utilise.

How to Brand the Cherry Pie Filling and Get together the Pie

Brand the pie filling by mixing the 3 cans of cherriesplus the juice from 1 1/2 cans with sugar, cornstarch, table salt, and almond excerpt in a large, heavy-bottomed saucepan. Bring to a simmer and cook over medium-depression estrus for about 10 minutes, stirring regularly, or until the liquid is thick and bubbly (partially jelled). Set bated to cool.
Preheat the oven to 425 degrees fahrenheit. Comprehend a cookie sail with foil and place on a lower rack (to catch whatsoever potential drips).
Sprinkle the counter with flour and curl out the bottom pie crust. Arrange in pie pan. Pour your cooled pie filling in the pan.
Roll out the top crust. Use a sharp pocketknife to cut the summit crust into strips for a lattice crust or apply a cookie cutter to brand other designs. Either drape your pinnacle crust over the pie, if y'all used a cookie cutter design, or weave your traditional lattice chaff.
Trim the edges of the acme and bottom crust to one/ii – 1 inch across the pie pan and then fold under. Either press around the perimeter with the tines of a fork or crimp it with your fingers.
If desired (and I e'er practise), brush the crust with a beaten egg white (or cream) and sprinkle sugar on elevation.
Bake for 20 minutes at 425 degrees F then lower the oven temperature to 375 F and add a pie chaff shield (or a foil tent with the center cut out) to protect the outer edges of the crust from burning. Bake for another xxx-40 minutes, until the crust looks nicely browned and the juices bubble up thickly.
Remove from the oven and permit absurd for 3 hours or and so before eating. This is the hard part only it really helps to take the filling gel properly. Plus it looks and smells and then nice sitting on the table!
Eat and enjoy… This crimson pie is delicious with whipped cream or vanilla ice cream.

Keywords: scarlet pie recipe, cherry pie, canned cherries, tart cherries, pie

P.S. Cherry hand pies are delicious, likewise.

And, if you're swimming in fresh cherries, you'll want to bank check out 30 fresh cherry-red recipes and how to freeze them (on Peanut Blossom).

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Jean Van't Hul

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3 Responses

So no demand for vegetable shortening? Only butter?
Hi, my kids honey this pie and I have made it quite a few times. It looks like you have redesigned the page though, and I can't notice the actual instructions any more… I think in that location is a link missing, unless I am just not seeing something…
1. Hi,
  We had some glitches with our recipes but they should be all set now!
  
  Thanks for letting us know!

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