Right here’s a straightforward recipe for how one can make selfmade cherry pie filling to make use of in pies, desserts, cheesecakes, or just to eat with a spoon!

Only one spoon of this thick and scrumptious cherry pie filling, and you’ll by no means return to canned cherry pie filling once more.

The straightforward recipe may be naturally sweetened, with no excessive fructose corn syrup, no Pink 40, and no gelatin required. And it tastes ten occasions higher than the canned model!

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Methods to make use of cherry pie filling

This cherry filling is ideal in Chia Pudding or Overnight Oats.

Stir it into parfaits or yogurt, use as a topping for black forest cake or cheesecake, or spoon it over pancakes, crepes, French toast, or waffles.

Or use the thick cherry sauce to make turnovers or pop tarts, hand pies or bars, cherry fluff salad, or cherry cobblers or crumbles.

After all, the preferred means to make use of cherry pie filling is in a selfmade cherry pie.

It’s a fantastic topping for Keto Cheesecake or No Bake Cheesecake

Above, watch the step-by-step cherry pie filling recipe video

Selfmade cherry pie filling substances

The cherry topping recipe requires cherries, water, lemon juice, sweetener of selection, cornstarch, elective pinch of salt, and pure vanilla extract or almond extract.

The sweetener may be granulated, like common sugar or coconut sugar. Or you need to use an unrefined liquid sweetener like honey, agave, or pure maple syrup. For sugar free cherry desserts, use erythritol or xylitol.

I’ve not tried arrowroot, tapioca, agar, flour, or different substitutes for the cornstarch. Be at liberty to experiment, and you’ll want to report again in the event you do.

What kind of cherries?

Candy cherries or bitter cherries each work within the recipe. I like candy black cherries, comparable to Bing, Lambert, Chelan, or Sweetheart. If utilizing tart or purple cherries, add extra sweetener to style if wanted.

I want to make use of frozen cherries just because they’re often already pitted, so it saves you the step of getting to pit cherries by hand.

Recent cherries are wonderful to make use of so long as you pit them first with a chopstick or knife, or with a cherry pitter.

Additional cherries? Make Cherry Frozen Yogurt

The best way to make cherry pie filling

Mix all substances besides the vanilla extract in a saucepan.

Convey the combination to a boil over medium warmth, then flip the warmth to low as soon as it begins to boil. Stir incessantly till the cherries are tremendous gentle and the juice is thick. This could take round ten to fifteen minutes on the range high.

Flip off the warmth. Whisk within the vanilla extract. You can too add a drop or two of almond extract if you want. Style, and add further sweetener if wanted.

Let the cherry combination cool earlier than transferring to mason jars or an hermetic lidded container. Retailer leftovers coated within the fridge for as much as every week. Or freeze for as much as three months, thawing earlier than utilizing.

Recent or canned cherries

There are lots of manufacturers of cherry pie filling from a can in the marketplace, together with Comstock (Duncan Hines), Solo, Fortunate Leaf, Musselman’s, Large, Walmart, and Goal.

Most canned choices both comprise synthetic shade or corn syrup or are costly. So your best option for wholesome cherry pie filling is to make your personal at house.

As talked about earlier, selfmade cherry filling additionally simply tastes higher.

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