It's been awhile since I made a pie so I got motivated today to whip something together. My choices with what I had on hand were some questionable apples in the fridge, pudding mix in the cupboard, or a can of cherry pie filling on the pantry shelf. Cherry will always win out at our house.
Rather than reinvent the wheel, I stuck to my favorite pie crust recipe which is the recipe my grandma and mom used when they baked tarts. You can find it here. Because I am inherently lazy and also because I love streusel topping, I opted for that as opposed to a top pastry crust. Below is the basic ingredients to put that together. I rolled out the crust and placed it in a regular 9 inch pie plate, threw in the cherry pie filling, topped with the streusel topping, and baked at 400 degrees for 35 minutes.Voila!
Streusel Pie Topping
1 stick room temperature butter
1 cup flour
3/4 cup brown sugar
dash of salt
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
With a pastry cutter or your fingers, mix everything together until it makes a cohesive crumble. Distribute evenly over the pie of your choice.
