Impossibly Easy Cherry Almond Pie Recipes

CHERRY ALMOND PIE

Steps:

• Drain cherries, reserving 2/3 cup juice in a saucepan; discard remaining juice. To the juice, add the cherries, sugar, butter and salt. In a small bowl, combine cornstarch and water until smooth; stir into cherry mixture. Bring to a boil over medium heat. Cook and stir for 2 minutes or until thickened and bubbly. Remove from the heat; stir in the almond extract and food coloring if desired. Cool. , Line a 9-in. pie plate with bottom pastry; add filling. Make a lattice crust. Trim, seal and flute edges. Bake at 375° for 45-50 minutes or until crust is golden and filling is bubbly. Cool on a wire rack.

IMPOSSIBLY EASY CHERRY ALMOND PIE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 400 degrees. Mist a 9- or 10-inch pie plate with nonstick spray and set aside.
• Stir together first six ingredients until blended. Pour into prepared pie plate. Spoon pie filling over top. Bake 30 minutes.
• While pie is baking, make streusel topping by mixing Bisquick, brown sugar and cinnamon in a small bowl, and cutting in butter with a pastry blender, a fork or your fingers, until you have crumbs. Stir in almonds, if using (recommended). After pie has baked 30 minutes, sprinkle Brown Sugar Streusel over pie filling and return to oven to bake another 10 minutes, or until streusel is golden brown. Remove pie from oven and cool.
• Serve slightly warm, at room temperature or chilled from the refrigerator. It tastes great any way!

CHERRY PIE WITH ALMOND CRUMB TOPPING

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line a baking sheet with aluminum foil.
• Roll out pie crust and lay into a 9-inch pie pan.
• Combine almonds, brown sugar, oats, flour, and salt in a large bowl. Work butter into the almond mixture with your fingers, breaking up any large pieces, until incorporated completely. Cover and chill for 15 minutes.
• Combine cherries, lemon juice, white sugar, and cornstarch. Stir until well coated and no dry lumps remain, 3 to 4 minutes.
• Pour cherries and any accumulated juices into the prepared pie pan. Press down into the pan. Crumble oat mixture over the top. Place the pan on the prepared baking sheet.
• Bake in the preheated oven until cherries are bubbling and the crust and crumble topping are browned, about 1 hour 15 minutes. Let cool completely.

CHERRY ALMOND PIE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F.
• Toss the cherries with the sugar, flour, almond extract, and lemon juice until no visible flour is left. Allow to sit while you make the lattice top crust. then pour it in the pie crust and top with the butter.
• Place the first pie crust in the bottom of the pie plate and cut the second one into strips and brush the pie crust in the pie plate with the egg.
• Spoon the cherry filling into the bottom crust, careful not to add too much cherry juice.
• Scatter chopped butter pieces evenly over cherry filling.
• Top with the strips of pie crust in a lattice design, brush with the remaining amount of egg and sprinkle with almonds and sugar.
• Bake at 425 degrees for 15 minutes then reduce to 375 degrees and bake for an additional 25 minutes before cooling completely.

ALMOND PIE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350°F degrees.
• Grease and flour a 9-inch pie plate.
• In a small bowl, combine the almonds, baking powder, flour, and graham cracker crumbs.
• In another small bowl, mix the butter and 1/2 cup of the sugar.
• Stir the almond mixture into the butter and sugar.
• Beat in the eggs, one at a time, mixing well after each addition.
• Pour the mixture into the pie plate and bake for 25-30 minutes.
• While the pie is baking, combine the remaining 1/2 cup sugar with the 1/2 cup cold water in a saucepan and simmer until the syrup is reduced to 1/2 cup.
• Pour the syrup over the hot pie when the pie comes out of the oven.
• Sift the confectioners' sugar over the top.
• May be served with crème fraîche.

IMPOSSIBLY EASY CHERRY-ALMOND PIE

Steps:

• 1. Heat oven to 400°. Grease pie plate, 9 x 1 1/4 inches.2. Stir all ingredients except pie filling, Brown Sugar Streusel and almonds until blended. Pour into pie plate. Spoon pie filling over top.3. Bake 30 minutes. Sprinkle Brown Sugar Streusel over pie filling. Bake about 10 minutes or until streusel is golden brown cool. Sprinkle with almonds.Brown Sugar Streusel1/2 cup Original Bisquick1/2 cup packed brown sugar1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon2 tablespoons firm margarine or butterMix Bisquick, brown sugar and cinnamon. Cut in margarine, using fork or pastry blender, until mixture is crumbly.HIGH ALTITUDE (3500 to 6500 feet): Increase second bake time to 15 to 20 minutes.NUTRITION FACTS: 1 Serving: Calories 295 (Calories from fat 90) Fat 10g (Saturated 5g) Cholesterol 70mg Sodium 290mg Carbohydrate 48g (Dietary Fiber 1g) Protein 4g % DAILY VALUE: Vitamin A 8% Vitamin C 0% Calcium 8% Iron 6% DIET EXCHANGES: 1 Starch 2 Fruit 2 FatBETTY'S TIP: Stick with the stick! The streusel topping will blend better and be more crumbly if you use margarine or butter from a stick instead of a soft spread.From "Betty Crocker's Bisquick Cookbook." Text Copyright 2000 General Mills, Inc. Used with permission of the publisher, Wiley Publishing, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

IMPOSSIBLE CHERRY PIE

Steps:

• 1. Pie: Heat oven to 400^. Grease a 10-inch pie plate. Beat all ingredients, except the pie filling and Streusel until smooth, about 15 seconds in blender on high or 1 minute with hand beater. Pour into pie plate. Spoon pie filling evenly over top. Bake for 25 minutes. Remove from oven and top with streusel. Bake until streusel is brown, about 10 minutes. Cool on wire rack. --- Streusel: Cut butter into the Bisquick,sugar and cinnamon until crumbly.

CHERRY ALMOND PIE

Steps:

• Combine sugar and cornstarch in saucepan.The amount of sugar depends on the sweetness of the cherries and how sweet you like your pie. I use 1/2 cup.
• Add cherries and liqueur.
• Cook and stir over low heat until mixture thickens.
• Spoon into baked pie shells.
• Make topping: combine flour and sugar and cut in butter with pastry cutter, until texture of coarse meal.
• Stir in coconut.
• Sprinkle top of pie to within 2" of center.
• Bake at 375 degrees for 10 to 12 minutes or until coconut is toasted.

CHERRY-ALMOND PIE

Steps:

• Combine flour and sugar for crust in a bowl. Cut in butter using hands to mix and mush until thoroughly combined and mixture resembles tiny pebbles or cornmeal. Stir in almonds. Sprinkle with ice water until dough holds together in a ball. Cover in plastic wrap and refrigerate at least 30 minutes.
• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Toss cherries, sugar, and salt for filling together in a bowl.
• Combine almond extract, amaretto, and cornstarch in a separate bowl until smooth; add to cherry mixture and mix well.
• Roll out refrigerated crust dough using a lightly floured rolling pin on a lightly floured work surface to desired thickness. Press into the bottom of an 8-inch pie pan.
• Bake crust in the preheated oven until set, about 15 minutes.
• Remove crust from the oven and fill with cherry mixture. Increase the oven temperature to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
• Bake pie in the hot oven until edges of dough are golden and filling is bubbly, 35 to 45 minutes.