Vegan Cherry Pie

4.94 from 30 votes

My vegan Cherry Pie is golden and delicious and it's lower in fat than a traditional pie, which means you can have twice as much. :) A soy-free, nut-free recipe.

Prep Time20

Cook Time50

Total Time1 10

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American, nut-free, Soy-free

Diet: Vegan, Vegetarian

Servings: slices

Calories: 249kcal

Author: Vaishali · Holy Cow Vegan

Ingredients

For crust:

2 ½ cups all purpose flour
8 tablespoon vegan butter (cut into 1-cm cubes while very cold)
¼ teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon sugar
Ice cold water

For the pie filling:

5 cups frozen, pitted sweet cherries (you can use tart cherries, but you will likely need to add more sugar)
¾ cup sugar
4 tablespoon cornstarch
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

Instructions

Make the crust:

Mix the flour, salt, and sugar in a bowl. Add the cubed butter. Using a pastry cutter, cut the butter into the flour until you have large crumbs of butter dispersed through the dough.
Using a fork to mix, drizzle ice cold water into the flour, a little at a time, until the dough comes together in a ball. Don't add too much water, the dough shouldn't be wet. It should just hold together without any dry flour remaining.
Divide the dough into two and wrap tightly in cling wrap, shaping each ball into a disc. Refrigerate for at least 30 minutes or overnight. You can make the dough the earlier day.

Make the pie filling:

Place the cherries in a saucepan and stir for a couple of minutes until they begin to express liquid. Let the cherries cook another five minutes at which point they will have expressed a good amount of liquid. Using a spider strainer or a slotted spoon, remove the cherries to a bowl, leaving the juices behind. Bring the juice to a boil and let it reduce to about half, which should take around 5-10 minutes.
Add the sugar to the cherry juice and stir until dissolved. Now add the cornstarch to the liquid, a tablespoon at a time, whisking in each time until thoroughly dissolved. Once all the cornstarch has been dissolved in the cherry juices, turn off the heat and pour the juice into the cherries. Mix in the vanilla and set aside.

Assemble the pie:

Preheat the oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit.
To assemble the pie, roll out one disc of dough to a width slightly larger than your pie plate. Fit it into the bottom of the pie plate, leaving a slight overhang. Refrigerate while you roll out the top crust.
You can make a decorative lattice top, like I did (not the best looking lattice, I'll admit, but it still looks quite nice), or just make a plain crust that'll still look beautiful when it bakes up all golden and flaky. To make a lattice top, roll out the dough to a disc slightly wider than the pie plate and cut it into thin strips using a pizza cutter. Arrange the strips in a lattice pattern on top of the pie and then seal the edges, cutting out any overhanging dough. The filling is rather juicy which makes the lattice top harder to arrange, so if you aren't very comfortable doing it, just make a plain top crust. To do this, place the rolled-out dough on top of the filling, press down the edges of the dough to seal with the edges of the bottom crust using the tines of a fork, and cut four vents at the top of the pie to let the steam out as the pie bakes.
Place the pie on a cookie sheet and bake in the preheated oven for 50 minutes.
Remove the pie plate to a rack and cool thoroughly for 3-4 hours before cutting and serving.

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