Cherry Pot Pie

I really wanted chicken pot pie for dinner. So we got the ingredients, I made the dough, we made them, and we ate them. Simple, right? Yes. But we had some dough left over. A whole quarter of it. And we had cherry pie filling. Put two and two together? You get pie!

This is really easy. And you don't even need to make chicken pot pies first! The only thing you need to make is the dough, and if you don't want to make it then you can buy it.

See the middle picture there? With the two bowls? I had to make the dough in two batches because of my ridiculously small food processor. And I don't know if you can really tell from this picture, but the dough in the green bowl was a lot, not more crumbly per se, but less smooth than the blue bowl dough. I added more water to the blue one than I did to the green one, but when I mixed them together it worked fine.

So roll out your dough and put it in the ramekin. Oh yeah, we got ramekins! Hip hip hooray! And they're sooo cute! Totes adorbs. They're from Kohl's!

So anywho, roll and put your dough in the pot. Then top with filling! I made these kind of special because I put a layer of cherries in the middle of the filling. Oooh aaaah. Then I put a few on top right under the dough. To know how I cut them, go here!

Bottom dough, filling, top dough. Brush melted butter around the sides of the ramekin before you put the top dough on so that it'll stick. Then put more melted butter on top of the dough. Then put some slits so it doesn't explode and bake. But it won't explode. It just won't rise and be cute. I think. Don't quote me on that.

Pre Bake

Post Bake

I also made some whipped cream! Just whip up your cream, then add a little vanilla and sugar and it'll come out wonderful. Mine tastes like vanilla ice cream. Cool, huh?

Recipe:

Pie dough
Cherry pie filling
Cherries
Melted butter

Heavy whipping cream
Vanilla extract
Sugar

Roll out dough so that it is thin enough to be placed in ramekin but still sturdy. Fill with filling and cherries. Brush rim with melted butter and place dough on top. Make slits in the dough and brush with more butter. Bake at 350 for 30 minutes.

Whip cream until soft peaks. Add vanilla and sugar and continue whipping until your liking.

I won't type out the crust recipe here, but you can find it here. I'm pretty sure it's the same as Ina's perfect pie crust which I made here. You should really make the chicken pot pie too because it's delicious! Except leave out the weird little onions and add potato.