Two weeks ago or so, I was in the supermarket and run into a big column made of carton boxes. My curiosity made me look into the boxes and I saw that there were cherries inside. I couldn’t resist and that day I came back home with a big box of cherries. So, to celebrate the beginning of the cherry season, I made a cherry pie, like the one in Twin Peaks.
The hardest part of this recipe is to make the pastry, but this other recipe [1] I published recently can come in handy. This point is no more a problem. Do not forget that you need to prepare and maintain the pastry as cool as you can. The remainder of the recipe is mix and bake. Well before that, you will need to pit the cherries, if you buy them fresh… anyway, that become easier ans easier while doing it… or you can buy them canned 🙂
Cherry Pie Recipe
Autor: Damián Serrano Personas: 4 Tiempo: Dificultad: Fecile
Ingredientes
- 2 sheets of sweet shortcrust (you can buy them or read the recipe here [1])
- 500 g fresh or canned pitted cherries (Cereza del Jerte [2], from Extremadura [3], like me 🙂
- 100 g sugar
- 25 g corn starch
- 1 egg white
- 1 Tbs vanilla extract
- 1 Tbs almond extract or grounded (Optional)
- Sugar for decoration
Elaboración
- Prepare the 2 sheets of sweet shortcrust if you decided to make them yourself. In that case, make surre to cool them for about 30 minutes before use them.
- In a large bowl, mix the cherries, sugar, corns scratch, vainilla, (almonds) and let the mixture marinate for about 15 minunes.
- Preheat the oven to 175ºC.
- Roll out the pastry like described here [1] and put one sheet on a buttered circled plate.
- Pour in the cherry mixture.
- Cover with the other shorcrust sheet.
- Brush the top of the pie with the egg whitle.
- Make a cross in the center of the pai to let the air evaporate while in the oven.
- Bake in the oven for about 40-45min, until the top is brown.
- Let it cool for several hours.
Sugerencias, trucos y consejos
- You can serve it with whipping cream or vanilla ice cream