How to Bake Sour Cherry Pie

Yields: Two 9’’ pies

Preparation time: 20 mins

Cooking time: 50 mins

Ingredients needed to make Sour Cherry Pie:

• 4 store-brought pie dough rounds
• 10 1/3 cups sour cherries, pitted
• ½ cup unsalted butter, melted
• 5 tbsp + 1 tsp tapioca
• 1 1/3 cups sugar, plus more if necessary
• 1/8 tsp fine salt
• 1 tsp pure almond extract
• 2 tbsp + 2 tsp fresh lemon juice

Cooking instructions for Sour Cherry Pie:

• Empty the cups of cherries into a large bowl and sprinkle the sugar over them.
• Add the butter, tapioca, salt, almond extract and lemon juice into it and toss them all together until well combined.
• Spread one pie dough rounds into a 9’’ pie pan and spread the cherry filling over the pie base.
• Place another pie round on top to cover and pinch the open ends together to seal; trim off the portions overhanging from the edges of the pie pan.
• Make the other pie in a similar fashion, using rest of the cherry filling and pie dough rounds.
• Sprinkle a splash of water over each pie and dust generously with sugar.
• Leave them in the fridge for half an hour while you warm up the oven to 475 degrees F.
• Place them onto baking sheets and bake them in the oven for 5 minutes.
• Lower the temperature of the oven to 375 degrees F and bake further for 45 minutes, or until the filling begins to bubble and the crusts turn golden brown.
• Leave them on a wire rack for a couple of hours to cool completely.
• Slice them into wedges and serve at room temperature.

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