Halloween Skull Cherry Pies put the scary into your favorite cherry dessert this hauntingly delicious season.
Halloween Skull Cherry Pies
By Sue Lau | Palatable Pastime
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Halloween Skull Cherry Pies is my recipe of the day. This one is inspired by a pizza filled skull I have seen at food dot com.
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But instead of Italian flavor, I filled this with cherry pie filling and added a couple of extra cherries for the eyes and some of the gel for a glaze.
If y9ou do like a pizza flavor, you should try this: Stromboli Bundt Cake.
Meanwhile, this fruity ghoul has you covered.
Used in this recipe:
Nordic Ware Skull Cakelet Halloween Bakeware
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Halloween Skull Cherry Pies
As you can see, I have added cherries and a glaze for effect. I recommend you do this right before serving, so it doesn’t make the crust soggy.
You can use any kind of pie filling you like. I would go with maraschino cherries in the eye sockets if you do. You could mix up a sugar syrup thickened with cornstarch and a little red food color for the glaze. I imagine that you wouldn’t need a whole lot.
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Halloween Skull Cherry Pies
Halloween Skull Cherry Pies
Equipment
- 1 Nordic Ware Skull Cakelette bakeware pan
Ingredients
- 18 ounces refrigerated pie crust 2 packages
- 42 ounces Comstock cherry pie filling 2 cans
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425F.
- Press pie dough into the skull cavities in the bakeware pan, cutting and patching as needed.
- Divide cherry filling into cavities, about 1/2 cup per skull. Make sure y9ou save 12 cherries and about 1/4 cup of the gel for decor.
- Top with remaining dough, cutting and piecing the dough as needed to shape and cover the tops, pinching to seal.
- Use a small knife to cut a couple of vent holes in each.
- Bake on the lower shelf of the oven for 45 minutes.
- Allow to cool in pan.
- Use a knife to free the edges of the dough, then cover with a cookie sheet and turn them out.
- Just before serving, use a silicone brush to paint the crust with cherry pie filling gel, and fill each eye socket with a cherry.
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