Homemade Vegan Cherry Pie Recipe 

It’s surprising considering the abundance of cherries in England, that cherry pie is not (like in the USA) more popular. Cherries are expensive but delicious and make a lovely pie filling, serve with vegan custard or ice-cream.

This cherry pie recipe (Willow’s Kitchen) is super-simple to make, packed with fruits and sweetened with coconut sugar.

Keep fruit pips and seeds away from pets (and also fresh dough). Read more on food safety for people and pets. To avoid palm oil, make your own pastry with vegan butter (like Flora, which has no palm oil).

This recipe has a homemade pastry base, or use a simpler recipe at the post above. The pitted cherries are then combined with sugar, cornstarch, lemon juice and vanilla.

If you eat a lot of cherries, it’s worth investing in a cherry stoner, which can also be used for to remove olive stones.

You simply add the cherry mix over one half of the rolled-out dough, then cover with the other half (after cutting it into strips and weaving into a lattice shape).

Chill the pie  for half an hour (sprinkle on optional sugar) and bake until done. There won’t be many leftovers!

How to Buy & Store Cherries

Red cherries have a lighter flavour, but most interchange nicely in recipes. Look for ones with bright firm skin, and only wash them just before serving (they only keep a few days in the fridge). Look in farm shops for organic cherries with low food miles.