Most commercial cherry pies, and the cherry pies my grandmother used to make for us growing up, are made with sour cherries, which are bright, bright red, and almost impossible to find fresh.
But if you have access to fresh sweet cherries when they are in season (or even frozen out of season), you can easily make a pie with them too!
What makes the recipe work is to not add too much sugar. The cherries are already naturally sweet. We also add some almond extract to the filling.
There’s something magical about the flavors combination of cherries and almonds (see our cherry clafouti), and they work great in the pie.
By the way, it does help to have a good cherry pitter.
Sweet Cherry Pie Recipe
We've used 1/2 cup of sugar for the filling, which results in a pie not overly sweet. You may want to use more or less sugar, depending on how sweet you would like your pie to be, and how sweet your cherries are.
Ingredients
- Pie dough for top and bottom 9 or 10-inch pie (see pie crust recipe)
- 5 cups sweet cherries, pitted
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
- 1 Tbsp lemon juice
- 4 Tbsp cornstarch
- 2 teaspoons of butter, cut into small pieces
- 1 egg
- Coarse sugar for sprinkling
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