The Best Homemade Cherry Pie
The best homemade cherry pie starts with sour cherries picked right off of the tree. Add some sourdough pie crust, and homemade vanilla ice cream and you have found a match made in heaven. Of course, if you don’t have access to sour cherries on the tree, you can always make this with frozen or boughten cherries as well. Homemade cherry pie is something our family looks forward to every summer. It’s the perfect blend of tart and sweet, and made with just seven simple ingredients, including the homemade ice cream! If you haven’t ventured down the path of making your own fresh cherry pie, I’d encourage you to do so! You will get such a feeling of satisfaction from making something so decadent out of something so healthy and simple. So let’s make some sour cherry pie!
Ingredients
- 6 cups sour pie cherries fresh or frozen
- 1 ⅓ cups sugar
- ½ cup all purpose flour increase to ¾ cup for frozen cherries
- 2 Tbl melted butter
Instructions
- Heat oven to 425 degrees.
- Roll out homemade pie crust on a lightly floured work surface and place in bottom of pie dish.
- Using a sharp knife, cut away excess pie crust from the edge of the pie pan.
- In a large bowl, combine sour cherries, flour, sugar, and butter. If you have really juicy cherries, increase the flour to ½ a cup.
- Pour cherry mixture into bottom crust.
- Roll out the top crust and place on top of the filling. You can do a lattice crust as shown in the video below or a crumb top crust is nice too.
- Brush with melted butter and sprinkle with sugar.
- Cover edges with 2-3 inch piece of aluminum foil to prevent the edges from browning too quickly.
- Place on a parchment lined baking sheet in case the pie bubbles over.
- Bake at 425 for 15 minutes. Reduce heat to 350 degrees and bake for an additional 35 to 45 minutes or until juice is bubbly and crust is golden brown.
- Remove hot pie from oven and cool for two hours before slicing.
- Can be stored in an airtight container for up to a week in the refrigerator, although I highly doubt it will last that long.
- Enjoy with a scoop of homemade vanilla ice cream.
Notes
Tips For Making The Best Cherry Pie
- Make the sourdough pie crust ahead of time, and then this pie can be made pretty quickly.
- For best results, use fresh cherries in this recipe if possible.
- If using fresh cherries, they can be pitted and kept in the refrigerator for a couple of days before making the pie if necessary.
- If using frozen cherries, consider increasing the flour to ¾ to help thicken the extra juice from the cherries.
- You can put any kind of a topping on your cherry pie, but my favorite is a traditional lattice pie crust shown in the video below.
- If making the lattice top sourdough pie crust as shown in the video below, you will need to double the recipe for this pie. You can use a crinkle cutter or pizza cutter to make the strips of dough for the lattice crust.
