Easy Cherry Shortbread Pie

Shortbread dough with a pleasant sourness of cherries. Try it, youʼll want more! Cherry pie is not difficult to prepare, and you will be pleased with the taste. Crumbly and tender shortbread dough can be combined with a filling of cherries or other berries. This pie will decorate any table, so letʼs prepare it, and donʼt forget to invite your friends for tea!
cook time: 1h 40 min
Gavin Tanner
Easy Cherry Shortbread Pie

Nutrition Facts (per serving)

220
Calories
11g
Fat
28g
Carbs
7g
Protein

Ingredients (12 portions)

For dough:

Wheat flour 320 g
Butter 200 g
Water 4 tbsp
Sugar 1 tbsp
Salt 0.5 tsp

For filling:

Water 180 ml
Sugar 100 g
Cherries 3 cup
Potato starch 2 tbsp

Recipe instructions

Step 1

Step 1
Ingredients.

Step 2

Step 2
Prepare the dough. Itʼs very simple — mix all the ingredients for the dough. Pour flour, salt, sugar into a cup, grind with softened butter. Pour in cold water and knead the dough in a cup.

Step 3

Step 3
This amount of ingredients is enough to knead the dough to the desired consistency. Dust the table with flour and knead the dough well with your hands. At first it will crumble, continue kneading the dough, but then the butter will combine with the flour and the dough will become homogeneous.

Step 4

Step 4
Place the finished elastic dough in a plastic bag and place in the refrigerator for 1 hour.

Step 5

Step 5
In the meantime, letʼs start with the filling. Wash the cherries, then cut them in half and remove the pits.

Step 6

Step 6
Drain the excess juice from the cherries, put them in a saucepan, put them on medium heat, add water — not a full glass.

Step 7

Step 7
From the moment of boiling, cook the cherries for 10 minutes.

Step 8

Step 8
In a separate bowl, mix sugar and starch. Pour this mixture into the cherries and mix well. Cook, stirring, for another 5 minutes until the filling thickens. Then leave it to cool, you can put the cup in cold water for quick cooling.

Step 9

Step 9
We take the dough out of the refrigerator, cut off about a third of the part, which will be used for braiding.

Step 10

Step 10
Roll out the second part of the dough, which is larger, into a circle. Roll out to a diameter larger than the shape to make sides. My mold is 24 cm in diameter. Grease the mold with oil and lay out the dough, pierce it with a fork.

Step 11

Step 11
Pour the cooled filling onto the dough.

Step 12

Step 12
Roll out a smaller part of the dough and cut into strips 1.5-2 cm wide. First lay them out in one direction.

Step 13

Step 13
Then we carefully lift the strips and lay the strips perpendicular to the first ones — we make a braid.

Step 14

Step 14
We bend the remaining hanging strips along the edge of the mold, making a side.

Step 15

Step 15
Using the end of a fork, press down the edge of the dough and press it evenly to create a jagged edge.

Step 16

Step 16
Place the pie in a preheated oven at 180 degrees and bake for 40-45 minutes.

Step 17

Step 17
Leave the finished pie to cool.

Step 18

Step 18
Remove the cooled pie from the mold and cut into pieces. Donʼt be alarmed if some of the juice spills out with your first bite. The rest will set in jelly and will not spill out when cutting. Enjoy your tea!

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