Fresh Cherry Pie Recipes

Fresh fruits always make a wonderful ingredient in all types of desserts. Here are some fresh cherry pie recipes for you...
Fresh Cherry Pie Recipes
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients. ~ Julia Child

A cherry pie is nothing but a pie baked with cherries. A traditional dessert, ate in North America, it usually contains Morello cherries and is often topped with fancy pastry patterns. A fresh cherry pie is very common in festive meals during Christmas or Thanksgiving. In case you want to try making a fresh cherry pie at home, here are some fresh cherry pie recipes for you…

The Traditional Fresh Cherry Pie Recipe

Ingredients:

Frozen pastry for the double crust pie
Tapioca – 4 tablespoons
Pinch of salt
White sugar- 1 cup
Fresh pitted cherries- 4 cups
Almond extract – ¼ teaspoon
Vanilla extract –½ teaspoon
Liquefied butter – 2 tablespoons

Preparation:
  • First of all, preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
  • Place the bottom crust in the pie pan and set aside the top crust.
  • Now combine tapioca, salt, sugar, cherries and the almond and vanilla extracts.
  • Allow the mixture to stand for fifteen minutes.
  • Put the mixture into the bottom crust and dot with butter.
  • Now, place the top crust, flute edges and cut vents on the top crust.
  • Place the pie on a foil lined cookie sheet.
  • Bake the pie for fifty minutes in the preheated oven, until golden brown.
  • Serve with whipped cream or vanilla ice cream.
Chocolate and Fresh Cherry Pie Recipe

Ingredients:

Semisweet chocolate – 2 cups
Whipped cream – ½ cup
Butter – ¼ cup
Chocolate crumb pie crust
Fresh Pitted cherries – 4 cups
Sugar –1 cup
Cream cheese – 8 oz
Egg – 1
Almond extract – ¼ teaspoon
Maraschino cherries with stems –16
Thawed whipped topping - 2cups

Preparation:
  • First of all prepare the cherry filling by combining the sugar, almond extract and the cherries.
  • Now, preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
  • Microwave the chocolate morsels and cream in a bowl for about one to two minutes until the chocolate begins to melt.
  • Whisk in the butter until smooth.
  • Allow the mixture to cool until it reaches a spread-able consistency.
  • Spoon half of the chocolate mixture into piecrust.
  • Now, spoon the cherry pie filling evenly over chocolate mixture in the piecrust.
  • Place the pie on a baking sheet and set aside.
  • Now, beat together cream cheese, sugar, egg and almond extract.
  • Pour this mixture evenly over cherry pie filling.
  • Bake for 30 minutes and then remove pie from oven and allow it to cool.
  • Microwave the reserved chocolate mixture at medium power for 1 minute.
  • Now, dip the cherries in chocolate mixture and let them firm up on a sheet of wax paper.
  • Spread the remaining chocolate mixture evenly over top of pie.
  • For decorating, spoon uniform sized dollops of whipped topping and place cherries on each dollop.
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By Uttara Manohar
Published: 10/23/2008
 
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