Lazy cherry pie with ready-made puff pastry: an easy recipe

Here is a delicious and simple recipe for custard and cherry pie with ready-made puff pastry. Following this recipe, you will always get a delicious dessert.

A food blogger with the nickname tania_sheremet_ shared how to make a delicious dessert for coffee or tea on Instagram. She also provided a list of the necessary ingredients.

Ingredients

• yeast-free puff pastry - 1 kg

Ingredients for the cream

• milk - 500 ml
• sugar - 80 gr
• eggs - 2 pcs
• vanilla sugar - 1 p
• corn starch - 45 g
• butter - 50 g

Ingredients for cherry confit

• frozen cherries - 230 g
• sugar - 55 g
• corn starch - 15 g
• water - 20 ml

Method of preparation

1. Mix cherries with sugar in a saucepan and put on fire.

2. Dilute starch in water, pour it over cherries, cook until thickened and set aside to cool.

3. Prepare custard. Pour milk into a saucepan and add sugar and vanilla sugar.

4. Separately, break the eggs into a bowl, add cornstarch, mix gently until smooth, and pour milk a little at a time.

5. Pour the egg mixture through a sieve into a saucepan, stir, put on the fire, stirring constantly until thickened, and cook for 1-2 minutes.

6. Remove from the heat and add butter. Stir, transfer to a bowl, cover with cling film until it is in contact, and cool.

7. Mix the cooled custard with a mixer and put it into a pastry bag.

8. Defrost the puff pastry in the refrigerator and roll it out.

9. Divide into two equal parts and roll out each of them a little more.

10. Grease one of the pieces of dough with egg yolk, drawing 4 squares.

11. Put cream and cherry confit in each square.

12. Cover the top with the second part of the dough and pinch the edges.

13. Divide the future product into 4 parts and place them on a baking sheet with parchment.

14. Make cuts in each pie and brush with egg yolk.

15. Bake in the oven for 20 minutes at 180 degrees.