Easy, Homemade Cherry Pie Recipe

How to make cherry pie from scratch with a lightly sweetened filling of fresh (or frozen) cherries, vanilla, and almond extract. It’s to die for. Jump to the Homemade Cherry Pie Recipe or watch our quick recipe video showing you how to make it.

This cherry pie recipe is so easy — All you need to do is mix, fill and bake. The hardest part is pitting the cherries. For that, you might want to buy a cherry pitter or if you’re like us, cheat and use one of our suggestions below for how to pit cherries without a cherry pitter.

How to Make Homemade Cherry Pie
Stir cherries with sugar, corn starch, lemon juice, vanilla and almond extracts then stir. Roll out a pie crust (or use store-bought), fill then top with another crust. Bake and cool. It’s that easy.

YOU WILL NEED

• Chilled pie dough for top and bottom 9-inch pie (see our pie crust recipe)
• 4 1/2 cups pitted fresh cherries, see note if using frozen or canned (2 1/2 pounds, unpitted)
• 1/4 cup (30 grams) cornstarch
• 2/3 to 3/4 cup (135 to 150 grams) sugar, adjusted accordingly to sweetness of cherries
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/4 teaspoon almond extract
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 1 tablespoon cold unsalted butter, cut into small squares
• 1 egg yolk
• 1 tablespoon heavy or whipping cream
• Additional sugar for topping crust (coarse sugar is a nice option)

DIRECTIONS
MAKE FILLING

1. Heat oven to 400 degrees F.
2. In a large bowl, stir sugar, cornstarch, vanilla extract, almond extract, lemon juice and the salt together then add cherries. Gently toss to combine. Set aside.
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