Vegan cherry pie, a sweet recipe from scratch with the best filling from fresh or frozen cherries. A healthy pie that doesn't just taste great on Thanksgiving. Make this simple and quick vegan cherry pie during the cherry season with fresh cherries and a whole grain crust and served with coconut cream or vanilla ice cream. Dairy-free | whole foods | whole some | egg-free | lactose-free
How to make a crust of the vegan cherry pie?
Do you already know some of my recipes? Then you have probably already noticed that I like to mix in my doughs different nuts and flour and do so in this delicious vegan cherry pie. This time a mix of macadamia and hazelnuts with a spelt-oat mixture, which gives the vegan cherry pie that certain something. Which nuts do you love? I'm looking forward to reading from you below. With my next recipes, I would like to integrate some of them.
What cherries are best for the vegan cherry pie?
Obviously, fresh cherries are just a lot sweeter and you need fewer sweeteners. However, fresh cherries are a bit more time consuming for the vegan cherry pie, because you have to pit them all, which you do not have to do with frozen and canned cherries and thus goes faster. I decide based on how much time I have, because I think all types taste just fine in the pie. As you see in this video, I took the time to pit the cherries and baked the vegan cherry pie. So what kind of cherries do you prefer in your pie?
And by the way, if you use frozen or canned cherries from the jar and you get a pit in your piece of pie you may can make a wish like with a shooting star.
What is so special about the cherry pie?
- Quick baked
- Super duper yummy
- Without refined white sugar
- Full of taste
What else could I like?
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📖 Recipe
Homemade Healthy Vegan Cherry Pie with Whole Grains
Ingredients
- ½ cup 50 g hazelnut flour
- ½ cup 50 g macadamia flour
- 1 cup 225 g spelt flour or glutenfree flour mixture
- ¼ cup 25g oat flour
- 3 tablespoon potato starch
- 1-2 tablespoon maple syrup
- ½ cup 100 g tahini or nut butter of your choice
- 2 lbs or 5 cups* 1kg pitted fresh cherries
- ¼ cup 50g- ½ cup* (100g) raw cane sugar or coconut sugar
- 3.5 tablespoon cornstarch
- A half lemon juiced and zested
- 0.5 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 tablespoon almond butter
- 1 tablespoon water
- Some almond milk for brushing the top
- Almond slices for sprinkling and garnishing
Instructions
- In a food processor, first mix all the dry ingredients. Then add the maple syrup, the Tahini, and process the mass until it becomes crumbly. Add 5 tablespoons of water first and continue with this a spoonful at a time until you get a firmer lumpy dough without it feeling dry.
- Form the dough into a ball that should hold together easily and divide it into two parts, one part of which is slightly larger than the other. Now put the dough in a bowl and cover it off and put the dough in the fridge for about 1 hour.
- You can also freeze the dough by simply putting the dough in the freezer the night before you need it.
- Take the larger ball out of the fridge and leave it on the counter top for a few minutes.
- Then roll it into a circle about 30 cm in diameter. And put it in a 20-22 cm Springform or pie pan. Cover it and put it in the fridge again. Do the same with the other ball. Put this on baking paper and put them in the fridge.
- Mix raw cane sugar or coconut sugar, cornstarch and stir in the cherries. Add the vanilla extract, lemon juice and zest. Set it aside for about 10 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 200C.
- Distribute the cherry filling evenly in the pie pan.
- Cut out some cookies from the second dough and put them over the cherry filling like in the video. Brush with almond milk and sprinkle with a few almonds.
- Bake for 15 min and put the heat down to 180C and bake for about 40 min until the crust is golden brown. Allow the cake to cool for at least 4 hours before cutting so the filling is firm.
Notes
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Dara says
Where do you find nut flours? There are none in my town, can I substitute oat and spelt?
Jasmin says
You could ground your nuts finely. That is what I do most of the time. I haven't tried it to substitute the nuts completely with grains. The dough would probably to try because we are not using any oil.
Rebecca says
Can you substitute the sugar for either maple syrup or honey?
Jasmin says
Of course you cun substitute the sugar with any kind of syrup.