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How To Make Cherry Pie With Claire Saffitz | Dessert Person
Sour Cherry Pie occupies a perch on the dessert hierarchy above all others, sitting high and mighty. That’s because sour cherry pie, when executed well, has juicy but set filling, a balanced sweet-tart flavor, and golden flaky pastry. It’s everything a dessert should be and more. Here is Claire’s, inspired by the pies her mom used to make when she was a kid and informed by all the pie-making wisdom she’s gathered in her baking lifetime. Sour cherry season is fleeting, but seek out frozen ones and make this pie all year long.
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Sour Cherry Pie
Special Equipment
Cherry Pitter, 9-inch pie plate
Ingredients
Flaky All-Butter Pie Dough, Almond Variation (Pg 337)
All-purpose flour, for rolling out
8 cups fresh pitted sour cherries (2.5 lb / 1.12kg), from about 3 pounds (1.36kg)
1 1/4 cups granulated sugar (8.8 oz / 250g)
5 tablespoons cornstarch (1.6 oz / 44g)
2 teaspoons finely grated lemon zest
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground cardamon
1/4 teaspoon Diamond Crystal kosher salt
1/4 teaspoon almond extract
1 large egg, beaten
Demerara sugar, for sprinkling the top
0:00 Start
0:20 Intro to Sour Cherry Pie
0:45 Dessert Person Animation/Jingle
1:04 Honey Sponsorship
1:19 Growing up with Sour Cherry Pie
1:47 Ingredients & Special Equipment
2:58 Mix The Filling
6:04 Honey
6:53 Roll out The Crust
11:42 Assemble The Sour Cherry Pie
17:24 Baking Instructions
18:00 Swap Comes In / Cool & Serve
19:48 Second Cat Appears
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28 Comments
Thank you for all the birthday wishes! Now for a dessert question, what is your favorite kind of pie?
Looks so delicious! season 2 ep. 4 of “Dead to me” on Netflix has a diner scene where Christina Applegate eats a slice of cherry 🍒 pie 🥧 after doing their dirty work. It’s a great scene.
WE MISSED THE PERFECT MEME BY 5 DEGREES . FUCK YOU THERMODYNAMICS
I want to watch an episode where Clair handles Aries @Julian’s Kitchen energy.
I'd love to see Claire make a Cherry Cobbler!!!!
I disliked by accident I am so sorry! I always love your videos and changed it right after!
The ad in the beginning looks like Claire is in a wheelchair with a cat in her lap
Delicious! Used mixed frozen berries – sour and sweet cherries and blueberries. Total bake time was 2.5 hours. Came out perfect! Will be more patient next time and let it fully COOL before cutting so filling will set. Thanks again, Claire!
I went to the states a couple of weeks ago where I tasted my first sour cherry pie. Now I want to try and make it myself, but my pie plate is not as deep as the one you are using. Maybe 2/3 as high, if that makes sense 😉
I wonder, how long does my pie need in the oven? Can I just keep an eye on the color of the pie?
Thank you so much for your wonderful recipes! Your pecan brittle oatmeal cookies are a go to when I'm baking now <3
Great!
Claire. I don't bake. I have no desire to, really, and I'm not supposed to eat that (yummy) stuff, either. And I LOVE your content, your methods, and your whole channel. You are: kind, soothing, fun, gentle, precise, and SWEET! Your voice is one I want to hear every evening; I even rewatch a lot of your videos. Happy upcoming birthday! ❤🍒🥧
Claire….this is a burnt pie crust. Sorry…don’t know what you’re selling.
🥰💕 love!!
why has claire not aged since she was 9
I love that you explain why you add what you add, and leave out what you leave out. Helps so much. Thank you!
Throw away pastry? I almost fell over. My mom used to make "pie" cookies with the overage of dough. She would throw cinnamon and sugar on them before baking. My most favorite, ever! Cherry or blueberry….no maybe apple….is my favorite pie….I guess it depends on which one I am eating at the time. Love, love, love your channel!
I can’t possibly love Claire more.
if I would drop a bag of frozen berries they would have been all over the floor because my spouse never closes the bag after use. Lemon meringue is my favorite pie
Claire, please don't tell me to wait for 24h after baking the pie to eat it! After that time, the pie is usually gone already.
I'm so glad to see that Sohla isn't the only one who benefited from her torpedoing of BA.
I am surprised that you did not pre-bake the crust. Why?
I love how well you explain everything! I have someone who loves baked goods that is gluten free- do you have any suggestions/recipes for a good GF pie crust?
I have a huge strawberry guava tree in my yard. I never knew what to do with them. I'm gonna try them in this recipe. 😀
Looks really delicious 😍
You can also do the lattice ahead on a cake round or flat plate and chill it. If it stays cold, you can slide the entire woven lattice as a whole onto the top of the pie. This helps avoid any of the fruit filling from getting where you don’t want it.
Cran cherry pie?
its so virgo of her to use a ruler for her strips
I’ve made this pie SO many times and it’s SO good but this time I’ve forgotten too add sugar to the filling and it’s already in the oven… Do you think are there ways to rescue it? 🙈 maybe some kind of syrup?