Pies are often present in the diet of a modern person, because they are very satisfying. And if we are talking about pastries with cherries, then this is also a very tasty treat. It is liked by all lovers of sweets. There are many recipes for cherry pies, because there are different options for making dough and toppings.
Simple Yeast Dough: Ingredients and Yeast Preparation
Cooking pies begins with making dough. It is prepared in many ways. The simplest option is yeast (sour) gingerless dough. To prepare it, take:
- water or milk (you can also use a mixture of these 2 ingredients) - half a liter;
- yeast - 25-30 grams;
- granulated sugar - 2 tablespoons;
- salt - ¼ teaspoon;
- eggs - 2 pieces;
- sifted wheat flour - 900 grams;
- margarine - 150 grams.
Heat milk or water to 35–40 degrees. This is necessary in order to eventually get a dough with a temperature of 26 to 32 degrees. If your flour is cold, then heat the liquid harder. In a separate cup, half an hour before kneading the dough, first dilute the yeast in a small volume of warm water (the desired temperature is 30 degrees) with the addition of 4% sugar from the total weight of the flour.
Making yeast-free yeast dough
Take a deep bowl to make a cherry pie dough. Pour the remaining liquid into it, add the mixed yeast, salt, granulated sugar, eggs. Stir it all and add flour. Knead the dough. At the very end of cooking, put margarine, softened to the consistency of sour cream. Keep kneading the dough until it stops sticking to your palms.
When the dough is ready, sprinkle it with flour and leave it warm. After about a couple of hours, it will increase in volume. Warm the dough and put it back in heat. After another raising, warm up again and proceed to cutting.
Simple puff pastry for cherry pies
Especially tasty pastries are obtained using puff pastry. To prepare it, prepare:
- water - 1 cup;
- eggs - 2 pieces;
- sifted wheat flour - 600 grams;
- creamy salty butter - 400 grams.
Experienced hostesses advise kneading and rolling puff pastry in a cool place. Only then does baking succeed. To prepare, pour water into a deep container. Break 2 eggs there, pour flour. Knead the dough and set aside. Put the creamy salty butter between sheets of parchment paper, roll it in a rectangle and put in the refrigerator.
Next, take the puff pastry for the cherry pies and roll it half-finger thick. Remove the oil and place on top. Cover it with the edges of the dough to make an envelope. Roll out a long rectangle comparable in thickness to a finger, fold in 3 parts and place in the cold for 15 minutes. After a specified period of time, roll, fold and send again to the cold. Repeat this procedure twice more.
Yeast puff pastry: the first stage of preparation
Puff pastry can also be made with yeast. This recipe suitable for making cherry pies includes:
- water or milk - 110 grams;
- yeast - 10 grams;
- flour - 320 grams;
- sugar - 100 grams;
- eggs - 2 pieces;
- vanilla sugar and salt - 1 teaspoon each;
- butter for a layer - 160 grams.
Heat water or milk and dilute the yeast. Sift flour and pour half of the total into a liquid. Stir the ingredients. Place the container in a warm place until bubbles appear on the surface and increase volume. So you make the dough. After increasing the sponge, add all ingredients except the butter. Knead the cherry pie yeast dough, beat it on the table and place in a warm place to rise.
Second stage: work with the finished test
Cool the finished yeast dough to a temperature of 10–20 degrees. It should not melt butter. Roll out the dough in the form of a rectangular layer with a thickness of 5 mm or more. Visually divide it into 3 parts. Next, mash the butter so that it regains the consistency of thick sour cream. At the prepared rectangular layer, grease the middle with oil and cover with the left side of the dough. Lubricate the top with oil and cover with the right side of the dough.
Sprinkle the resulting dough with flour and roll it into a plate with a rolling pin up to 1.5 cm thick. Fold in four and roll out. Next, fold the dough again in half, double or quadruple. Remember that the entire procedure is recommended to be performed indoors at a temperature of no more than 18 degrees. Ready dough for pies (with cherry you will make them or any other berry - it doesn’t matter) put in the cold.
Sunflower Butter Butter Dough Recipe
You can make the pastry dough delicious by adding cream and red table wine. If you want to try this option, take the following ingredients:
- sunflower oil - 200 grams;
- sifted flour - 400 grams;
- eggs - 2 pieces;
- additionally chicken yolks - 2 pieces;
- red table wine - 8 tablespoons;
- cream - 5 tablespoons;
- salt - 1 pinch.
In a container, mix sunflower oil with all of the above products. Knead the dough thoroughly, roll it out in a thin layer, fold it into 4 layers and repeat this procedure a couple of times. Then proceed with the preparation of sweet cakes with cherries.
Cooking Cheesecakes
Cheesecakes are round pies, open on top and pinched from the edges. Many probably think that this baking is prepared only with cottage cheese, because these are the options that are sold in stores. In fact, cheesecakes can be with different fillings. Cooking these pies at home opens up scope for imagination. You can make them with different fruits and berries, including cherries.
For cherry pies cooked in the oven, prepare 500 grams of puff yeast dough, 300 grams of fresh berries, 50 grams of powdered sugar. Rinse cherries, dry, take out the seeds. Mix the pulp with icing sugar. Cut the dough into small pieces and roll them. Put the berry in the center of each rolled piece. Wrap the edges of the dough to make cheesecakes.
Next, cook the butter crumbs. Making it is very simple. Mix 100 grams of wheat flour with 70 grams of butter and 30 grams of granulated sugar. Sprinkle all the cheesecakes with the cooked butter crumbs. Place the cherry pies in the oven and bake for half an hour at 180 degrees.
Features of the preparation of pies with frozen berries
From any dough, you can still make pies with frozen berries. However, cooking has some peculiarities. Defrost a frozen berry before laying in pies on a colander. So you get rid of excess fluid. After defrosting add sugar. If desired, you can mix cherries with cottage cheese. You get even more delicious filling.
It is also important to consider that the quality of the filling depends on freezing. In some inexperienced hostesses, after thawing, the berries turn into porridge. It is inconvenient to make pies from such frozen cherries. The filling spreads. To prevent this from happening, follow the rules for freezing berries:
- Before freezing, rinse the berries and dry. Use paper towels for drying. If you don’t have them, then just spread out a cotton cloth, sprinkle a berry and take a hair dryer, including cold air.
- If you will be freezing seedless berries, first rinse the berries, remove the seeds and put them on a colander. Excess juice drains, and as a result, your cherry will be qualitatively frozen.
If the berry after defrosting turns into porridge, try using a simple tip - add starch. For example, you have prepared a half-liter can of frozen cherries for pies. Pour the frozen berries into the pan, put on the fire. Add a glass of sugar. Stir 1 teaspoon of starch in 3 teaspoons of water in a glass. Pour this mixture into the pan with a thin stream before boiling. Stir the mixture constantly. After boiling, remove the pan from the heat and let it thicken. You will get a wonderful filling for pies, which will not spread.
Other fillings
One of the suitable fillings for cherry pies is jam. However, baking is not always obtained with it. Jam sometimes spreads, seeps through the pies, makes them sticky. To make the cakes more convenient to cook, put the cherries on a colander. Let them drain excess juice. Then you can make pies.
There is another option using fresh cherries, raspberries, peeled walnuts and cottage cheese. This is an original mix filling. To prepare it, take all of the listed ingredients in the desired quantities, add sugar. If the filling is a bit dry, add a little sour cream to it.
In conclusion, it is worth noting that it is not necessary to strictly follow the above recipes. Experiment with ingredients, change their quantity. Making cakes with cherry is a real art, so don’t be afraid to fantasize and come up with new recipes.