I hope Love found you on Valentines Day!!

On Valentine's, I baked a pie a Cherry Pie for "My Guy Joe"!! 

The recipe was very easy and it only took me about 20 minutes to prep, well maybe about 35 with my cell phone malfunctions. I have included the directions and a special potion or two.
www.pillsbury.com/product/pie-crust
Ignore (I wanted to Poke him) the little Pillsbury Doughboy saying "D'ough"! Look under the product  choice and you will find the refrigerated pie crust needed for this recipe.

Easy Cherry Pie 

 "The Quest"

"The Formula"

Quest: Easy Cherry Pie
Formula:
Oven set at 425 degrees

2 pie crusts - see the URL address above

Mix all these items in bowl, let sit while you prepare your pie dish,

3 Cans tart cherries (drained) or 4 c 1/2 C. fresh tart cherries
1 1/3 C. Sugar
1/4 C.  Flour
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2-3 T Butter reserve 1 T Butter for "The Potion"

Grease a glass pie dish
Line dish with your first pastry
Pour your mixture into the first pastry
Dot your filling with pads of 1/4 T of butter each (about 6)
Cover your pie with the second pie crust
Tuck the second crust to the first around the edges using a fluted design
Gently cut a small +  in the middle of the pie crust, from there cut longer lines into the pie sections of the +, then cut smaller lines at the each of the four tails of the +.

Potions:  Melt 1 to 1 1/2 T of butter. Use a pastry brush - brush melted butter onto

the pie crust and then sprinkle with sugar prior to baking.
Bake in preheated (425 degrees) oven for 45 minutes

Weapon:
Bake first 20 minutes then place a foil band around the crust edge
Continue to bake an additional 25 minutes

"The Potion"

"The Potion"

"Weapon - The Foil Band"

Quest Complete