- Prep Time: 20m
- Cook Time: 45m
- Total Time: 1h 5m
- Yield: 1 (9 inch) cherry pie
Ingredients
- 1 box refrigerated pie crusts, softened (two crusts total)
- 1/4 cup Dixie Crystals Extra Fine Granulated Sugar
- 1 1/2 cups water
- 4 cups sweet cherries, pitted
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 1/4 cup cornstarch
- Whipped Cream for topping (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425F.
- Add cherries, water, honey, and 1/4 cup sugar to a medium sauce pan.
- Bring to a boil, reduce to simmer. Let simmer 10 minutes, stirring occasionally.
- Stir in cornstarch. Simmer 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. Remove from heat, let cool.
- Roll out first pie crust and lay it into a 9 inch pie dish.
- Carefully press the dough to fit the pie dish.
- Fill the crust with the cooled cherry pie filling.
- Roll out the second pie crust and cut the pie crust into 1 inch strips.
- Use the pie crust strips to make a lattice top on top of the pie.
- Bake for 45 minutes.
- (After about 15-20 minutes you may want to remove the pie and carefully wrap foil around the edges so that they don\'t burn)
- Let Cool.
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