Sugar-crusted cherry pies

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• Saffy

  05 August 2009

  Saffy commented on this recipe

  When do you add the marzipan should you choose to use it?

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• cakeanyone?

  01 October 2010

  cakeanyone? rated and commented on this recipe

  

  This was really lovely! I didn't have any kirsch but they were still very tasty - think I might use amaretto instead next time. I also mixed the cherries with fresh ones, just because I had some in the freezer, which worked well. Must remember next time to make sure the pastry is crimped properly because the juice of a couple spilt over and made the pastry a bit soggy. Saffy, I mixed the marzipan up with cherries and juice.

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• GlisGlis

  14 February 2011

  GlisGlis rated and commented on this recipe

  

  Delicious and very easy indeed. I settled on this recipe, having bought some reduced price fresh cherries without any idea of what I'd do with them. I marinated them in the kirsch for 20mins (while the pastry chilled) with .5tsp sugar to replace the bottled juices. And I used leftover half-fat creme fraiche instead of soured cream. It worked well - though there was a point where I was peering into the food pro at the breadcrumbed butter/flour and blobs of creme fraiche and thought it wouldn't. It clumped together like magic. Stirred the marzipan into the cherries before putting in the pie dishes but some redistribution was needed. Like SarahM, I found that bubbled juice made the pastry soggy in places but I'd made the pies ahead and a second short baking to reheat browned and crisped much of it nicely. Have already been asked to cook this again!

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Ingredients

• 100g butter , chilled and chopped
• 125g plain flour
• 60ml soured cream
• 1 small egg , beaten
• 2 x 350g jars morello cherries
• 100g marzipan , cubed (optional)
• 2 tbsp kirsch
• large white sugar crystals or demerara sugar

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Serves 6

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Ready in 1 hour 30 minutes

Ingredients

• 100g butter , chilled and chopped
• 125g plain flour
• 60ml soured cream
• 1 small egg , beaten
• 2 x 350g jars morello cherries
• 100g marzipan , cubed (optional)
• 2 tbsp kirsch
• large white sugar crystals or demerara sugar

Per serving

404 kcalories, protein 3.6g, carbohydrate 60.1g, fat 17.1 g, saturated fat 10.2g, fibre 3.4g, salt 0.34 g

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