The Recipe Is GOAT Melissa Clark's Sour Cherry Pie

Twice-Baked Sour Cherry Pie

Ingredients

• 1¾ cups plus 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour, plus more for rolling out dough

• ⅜ teaspoon kosher salt

• 15 tablespoons unsalted butter, chilled and cut into pieces

• 1 cup sugar

• 2 to 3 tablespoons instant tapioca

• ¼ teaspoon cinnamon

• 2 pounds sour cherries (about 6 cups), rinsed and pitted

• 1 tablespoon kirsch or brandy

• 3 tablespoons heavy cream

Demerara sugar, for sprinkling

Recipe

Heat oven to 425 degrees. Place larger dough disk on a lightly floured surface and roll into a 12-inch circle, about ⅜-inch thick. Transfer to a 9-inch pie plate. Line dough with foil and weigh it down with pie weights. Bake until crust is light golden brown, about 30 minutes.

While pie crust is baking, prepare filling. In bowl of a food processor, combine sugar, tapioca and cinnamon (use more tapioca if you prefer a thicker, more solid filling, and less if you like a looser, juicier filling). Run the motor until tapioca is finely ground. Place cherries in a bowl and add sugar and tapioca mixture. Drizzle in kirsch or brandy and toss gently to combine.

When pie crust is ready, transfer it to a wire rack to cool slightly and reduce heat to 375 degrees. Remove foil and weights. Scrape cherry filling into pie crust.

Place smaller disk of dough on a lightly floured surface and roll it ⅜-inch thick. Use a round cookie cutter (or several round cookie cutters of different sizes) to cut out circles of dough. Arrange circles on top of cherry filling in a pattern of your choice.

Brush top crust with cream and sprinkle generously with Demerara sugar. Bake until crust is dark golden brown and filling begins to bubble, 50 minutes to 1 hour. Transfer pie to a wire rack to cool for at least 2 hours, allowing filling to set before serving.

Tip

Frozen sour cherries are available online at Friske Orchards.