Homemade Cherry Pie

I have been in such a pie baking mood!!  Pies are so easy to make and everyone loves pie!!  My husband will take a pie any day over a piece of cake.  And I do love my heart shaped pie dish!!

Last month I made him a cherry pie using canned pie filling (I know . . . I cheated!).   The other day when I was looking through my Betty Crocker Picture Cookbook and found a recipe for Canned Cherry Pie, I knew I had a new adventure.  Of course, it involved a trip to the grocery store to buy canned tart cherries and almond extract.

I bought the cherries packed in water.  This and the almond extract are the only items you need to buy as you should have the rest of the ingredients already in your kitchen.

This is such an easy pie to make.  You can whip this up in matter of minutes.

For the crust, I used the crust recipe from my "Perfect Apple Pie", the link is below:

Pie Crust Recipe

Or you can use your favorite recipe.

Betty Crocker's Cherry Pie

Ingredients:

3/4 to 1 cup sugar (depending if your canned cherries are water packed or in syrup - if in syrup, use less sugar)
4T all purpose flour
1/4 tsp almond extract
2 1/2 cups cherries with juice (or syrup)

Directions:

Preheat your oven to 425.

Make your pie dough for a two crust pie.  Line the pie pan.

Mix the sugar and flour in a sauce pan.

Add the 2 1/2 cups of berries with the almond extract.

Cook over moderate heat, stirring constantly until it thickens.  This thickens pretty fast, so keep a watchful eye.

Pour into your pie pan.

Dot the filling with pie with 1 T of butter.

Cover the filling with the second pie crust. (I chose to do a lattice because I love how that looks)

Bake until nicely brown - about 30 to 40 minutes.  Remove and let cool on a rack.

Entire Recipe:

Betty Crocker's Cherry Pie

Ingredients:

3/4 to 1 cup sugar (depending if your canned cherries are water packed or in syrup - if in syrup, use less sugar)
4T all purpose flour
1/4 tsp almond extract
2 1/2 cups cherries with juice (or syrup)

Directions:

Preheat your oven to 425.

Make your pie dough for a two crust pie.  Line the pie pan.

Mix the sugar and flour in a sauce pan.

Add the 2 1/2 cups of berries with the almond extract.

Cook over moderate heat, stirring constantly until it thickens.  This thickens pretty fast, so keep a watchful eye.

Pour into your pie pan.

Dot the filling with pie with 1 T of butter.

Cover the filling with the second pie crust.  I sprinkled a little bit of sugar on top of the second crust.

Bake until nicely brown - about 30 to 40 minutes.  Remove and let cool on a rack.

Betty Crocker's Cherry Pie

Ingredients:

3/4 to 1 cup sugar (depending if your canned cherries are water packed or in syrup - if in syrup, use less sugar)
4T all purpose flour
1/4 tsp almond extract
2 1/2 cups cherries with juice (or syrup)

Directions:

Preheat your oven to 425.

Make your pie dough for a two crust pie.  Line the pie pan.

Mix the sugar and flour in a sauce pan.

Add the 2 1/2 cups of berries with the almond extract.

Cook over moderate heat, stirring constantly until it thickens.  This thickens pretty fast, so keep a watchful eye.

Pour into your pie pan.

Dot the filling with pie with 1 T of butter.

Cover the filling with the second pie crust.  I also sprinkled a little bit of sugar on the top of the pie crust.

Bake until nicely brown - about 30 to 40 minutes.  Remove and let cool on a rack.

Verdict:

Oh yes . . . he loved it!!!  I will definitely be making this one again.  It is good and will even be better with ice cream (am I evil or what!!!)