Chocolate-Covered Cherry Pie

Name: Chocolate-Covered Cherry Pie
Prep time: 1 h 5 min
Cook time: 1 h 5 min
Total time: 1 h 5 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 0 teaspoons almond extract; 59 milliliters butter, cut into pieces; 595 grams cherry pie filling; 9 inches chocolate crumb piecrust; 227 grams package cream cheese, softened; 1 large egg; 16 maraschino cherries with stems; 79 milliliters powdered sugar; 473 milliliters semisweet chocolate morsels; 473 milliliters whipped topping, thawed; 118 milliliters whipping cream

This recipe makes 8 servings with 645 calories, 6g of protein, and 42g of fat each. This recipe covers 11% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. A mixture of maraschino cherries, cream cheese, cherry pie filling, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so yummy. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 1 hour and 5 minutes.

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Microwave chocolate morsels and cream in a glass bowl on medium for 1 to 2 minutes or until chocolate begins to melt.

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Chocolate Chips

Chocolate

Cream

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Microwave

Bowl

Oven

Whisk in butter until smooth.

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Butter

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Whisk

Let cool, whisking occasionally, for 5 to 10 minutes or until mixture is a spreadable consistency.

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Whisk

Spoon half of chocolate mixture into pie-crust. Cover and chill remaining chocolate mixture. Spoon cherry pie filling evenly over chocolate mixture in pie-crust.

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Cherry Pie Filling

Chocolate

Crust

Place pie on a baking sheet; set aside.

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Baking Sheet

Beat together cream cheese, sugar, egg and almond extract at medium speed with an electric mixer until smooth.

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Almond Extract

Cream Cheese

Sugar

Egg

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Hand Mixer

Pour evenly over cherry pie filling. (The pie shell will be full, but it will not overflow when you bake it.)

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Cherry Pie Filling

Pie Crust

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Oven

Bake for 30 minutes or until center is set.

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Oven

Remove pie from oven and cool on a wire rack. Cover and chill for 8 hours.

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Wire Rack

Oven

Microwave reserved chocolate mixture at medium power for 1 minute. Stir until spreadable. Dip cherries in chocolate mixture and let them firm up on a sheet of wax paper for 15 minutes before decorating pie.

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Chocolate

Cherries