Pies with cherries: dough options, recipes and ingredients

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

Pies are often present in the diet of a modern person, because they are very satisfying. And if we are talking about baking with cherries, then this is also a very tasty treat. It is loved by all lovers of sweets. There are many recipes for cherry pies, because there are different options for preparing dough and fillings.

Simple yeast dough: ingredients and yeast preparation

The preparation of pies begins with the manufacture of dough. It is prepared in different ways. The simplest option is yeast (sour) doughless dough. To prepare it, take:

• water or milk (you can also use a mixture of these 2 ingredients) - half a liter;
• yeast - 25–30 grams;
• granulated sugar - 2 tablespoons;
• s alt - ¼ teaspoon;
• eggs - 2 pieces;
• sifted wheat flour - 900 grams;
• margarine - 150 grams.

Heat milk or water to 35-40 degrees. This is necessary in order to eventually get the dough with a temperature of 26 to 32 degrees. If your flour is cold, then heat it up harderliquid. In a separate cup, half an hour before kneading the dough, pre-dilute the yeast in a small amount of warm water (desired temperature - 30 degrees) with the addition of 4% sugar of the total flour weight.

Preparation of yeast-free dough

Take a deep bowl to prepare the dough for the cherry pies. Pour the remaining liquid into it, add the stirred yeast, s alt, granulated sugar, eggs. Mix it all up and add flour. Knead the dough. At the very end of cooking, put the margarine, softened to the consistency of sour cream. Keep kneading the dough until it no longer sticks to your palms.

When the dough is ready, dust it with flour and keep warm. After about a couple of hours, it will increase in volume. Punch down the dough and put it back in the heat. After one more lift, do a warm-up again and start cutting.

Simple puff pastry for pies with cherries

Especially delicious pastries are obtained when using puff pastry. To prepare it, prepare:

• water - 1 cup;
• eggs - 2 pieces;
• sifted wheat flour - 600 grams;
• creamy s alted butter - 400 grams.

Experienced hostesses advise kneading and rolling puff pastry in a cool place. Only then does the baking succeed. To cook, pour water into a deep container. Break 2 eggs into it, pour out the flour. Knead the dough and set aside. Place s alted butter betweensheets of parchment paper, roll into a rectangle and refrigerate.

Next, take the puff pastry for pies with cherries and roll it out half a finger thick. Take out the oil and put it on top. Cover it with the edges of the dough to make an envelope. Roll out a long rectangle, comparable in thickness to a finger, fold into 3 parts and place in the cold for 15 minutes. After a specified period of time, roll it out, fold it and send it back to the cold. Repeat this procedure twice more.

Yeast puff pastry: the first stage of preparation

Puff pastry can also be made with yeast. This cherry pie friendly recipe includes:

• water or milk - 110 grams;
• yeast - 10 grams;
• flour - 320 grams;
• sugar - 100 grams;
• eggs - 2 pieces;
• vanilla sugar and s alt - 1 teaspoon each;
• butter for the layer - 160 grams.

Heat water or milk and dilute the yeast. Sift the flour and add half of the total volume to the liquid. Stir the ingredients. Place the container in a warm place until bubbles appear on the surface and increase in volume. This is how you prepare the brew. After increasing the dough, add all the ingredients to it, except for the oil. Knead the yeast dough for cherry pies, beat it on the table and leave to rise in a warm place.

Second stage: working with the finished dough

Cool the finished yeast dough to a temperature of 10–20 degrees. It should not melt oil. Roll out the dough into a rectangular layer with a thickness of 5 mm. Visually divide it into 3 parts. Next, knead the butter so that it acquires the consistency of thick sour cream. At the prepared rectangular layer, grease the middle with oil and cover with the left part of the dough. Brush the top with oil and cover with the right side of the pastry.

Sprinkle the resulting dough with flour and roll with a rolling pin into a plate up to 1.5 cm thick. Fold in four and roll out. Then fold the dough in half, three times or four times again. Remember that this entire procedure is recommended to be performed indoors at a temperature of no more than 18 degrees. Ready-made dough for pies (you will make them with cherries or any other berry - it doesn’t matter) put in the cold.

Sunflower oil pastry recipe

You can make pie dough delicious by adding cream and red table wine. If you want to try this option, take the following ingredients:

• sunflower oil - 200 grams;
• sifted flour - 400 grams;
• eggs - 2 pieces;
• extra chicken yolks - 2 pieces;
• red table wine - 8 tablespoons;
• cream - 5 tablespoons;
• s alt - 1 pinch.

In a container, mix sunflower oil with all of the above products. Knead the dough well, roll out a thin layer, fold into 4 layers and repeat this procedure a couple of times. Thenstart making sweet cherry pies.

Cooking cheesecakes

Cheesecakes are round cakes, open at the top and pinched at the edges. Many probably think that these pastries are prepared only with cottage cheese, because these are the options that are sold in stores. In fact, cheesecakes can be with different fillings. Cooking these pies at home opens up scope for imagination. You can make them with different fruits and berries, including cherries.

For oven-baked cherry pies, prepare 500 grams of puff yeast dough, 300 grams of fresh berries, 50 grams of powdered sugar. Rinse the cherries, dry them, remove the pits. Mix pulp with powdered sugar. Cut the dough into small pieces and roll them out. Place a berry in the center of each rolled piece. Wrap the edges of the dough to make cheesecakes.

Next, prepare the crumble butter. Making it is very simple. Mix 100 grams of wheat flour with 70 grams of butter and 30 grams of granulated sugar. Sprinkle all the cheesecakes with the prepared butter crumbs. Place the cherry pies in the oven and bake for half an hour at 180 degrees.

Features of making pies with frozen berries

From any dough you can still make pies with frozen berries. However, the preparation has some peculiarities. Defrost the frozen berry before laying in pies in a colander. So you get rid of excess fluid. Add sugar after defrosting. If desiredyou can mix cherries with cottage cheese. It will turn out even more delicious filling.

It is also important to consider that the quality of the filling depends on freezing. For some inexperienced hostesses, after defrosting, the berries turn into porridge. It is inconvenient to cook pies from such frozen cherries. The filling is spreading. To prevent this from happening to you, follow the rules for freezing berries:

1. Before freezing, wash the berries and dry. Use paper towels to dry. If you do not have them, then just spread out a cotton cloth, pour out a berry and take a hair dryer, including cold air.
2. If you will freeze a seedless berry, then first rinse the berry, remove the seeds and put it in a colander. Excess juice will drain, and as a result, your cherry will be qualitatively frozen.

If a berry turns into porridge after defrosting, try using a simple tip - add starch. For example, you have prepared a half-liter jar of frozen cherries for pies. Pour frozen berries into a saucepan, put on fire. Add a glass of sugar. In a glass, mix 1 tablespoon of cornstarch with 3 tablespoons of water. Pour this mixture in a thin stream into the pan before boiling. Stir the mixture constantly. After boiling, remove the pan from the heat and let it thicken. You will make a wonderful pie filling that won't spread.

Other toppings

One of the suitable fillings for cherry pies is jam. However, baking is not always obtained with it. Jam sometimes spreads, seeps through the pies, making them sticky. To make the pies more convenient to cook, put the cherries in a colander. Let the excess juice drain from them. Then you can make pies.

There is another option using fresh cherries, raspberries, shelled walnuts and cottage cheese. This is the original mix filling. To prepare it, take all the listed ingredients in the desired quantities, add sugar. If the filling is too dry, add some sour cream to it.

In conclusion, it is worth noting that it is not necessary to strictly follow the above recipes. Experiment with the ingredients, change their quantity. Making cherry pies is a real art, so don't be afraid to fantasize and come up with new recipes.