Cherry Pie Recipes and Tips

Brilliant, tart-sweet red cherries wrapped in a flaky crust. Cherry pie is a classic, but it's simple to make. Even if you've never baked a pie, you can make one of these easy cherry pie recipes. Success guaranteed!

 
Three simple steps to cherry pie:

1. Mix it. Mix cherries with sugar and a spice or two (cinnamon is a great choice), plus cornstarch for thickening the juices as the pie bakes.
   
   
2. Unroll it. Unroll a refrigerated pie crust into a pie pan and spoon the filling into the crust. Then unroll the other pie crust and top the pie. Press the two crusts together.
   
   
3. Bake it. The end result: a delicious sweet cherry pie!

Take the guesswork out of making cherry pie:

Start with the pie crust. A simple unroll-and-fill Pillsbury pie crust makes cherry pies totally doable–even traditional two-crust cherry pies are amazingly easy! Or try pies topped with a crumble top, shaped as free-form, no pie-pan tarts, and made as individual-sized cherry tarts.

Make a delicious cherry pie filling. You can make a fabulous super easy pie with a simple can of cherry pie filling. Or fill a cherry pie in any number of ways: Stir in a flavor twist, freeze an ice cream pie, make a cheesecake filling or combine cherries with other fruits and berries.

Top cherry pie recipes. Try some of our most popular cherry pie recipes:

• Sparkling Cherry Pie
• Cherry Pie Cups
• Almond Macaroon-Cherry Pie
• Super-Easy Fruit Pie
• Berry-Cherry Pie
• Merry Cherry-Plum-Berry Pie
• Cherry-Berry Sweetheart Pie
• Vanilla Cream Cherry Pizza
• Choose-a-Fruit Mini Pies
• Pillsbury Magic Flan Pie 

Five easy tips to get you started:

1. Soften the crust. Take the pie crust out of the refrigerator to soften before you use it, as directed on the package.
   
   
2. Don’t stretch it. Try not to stretch the pie crust when you put it in the pan.
   
   
3. Use glass or dull-metal pans. Shiny pans keep refrigerated pie crusts from getting brown, and dark pans cause too much browning.
   
   
4. Use the size pan called for in a recipe. Refrigerated pie crusts are designed for 8- or 9-inch pie pans and 10-inch tart pans.
   
   
5. Make it simple. Check out our Six Steps to a Perfect Pie and Special Touches.