LA’s Cherry Pie Surprise from Laura Anderson dishes as eaten around the world Holiday Dessert bake-off Christmas Special recipe. Best Misc dessert 2010 recipe.

Ingredients 

Crust

1 1/2 cup flour

2 t sugar

1/2 t salt

1/2 cup chilled unsalted butter cut into 1/4 inch cubes

2 T ice water

Method 

Whisk, flour, sugar and salt in medium bowl to blend. Add butter and rub inn with finger tips until mixture resembles coarse meal.

Add two tablespoons of water and stir with fork until evenly moistened, adding more water by teaspoonfuls if mixture is dry. 

Gather dough into a ball, flatten and chill at least one hour. 

Soften dough slightly before rolling out into 8 inch pie tin.

Filling

4 cups cherries (from our favorite cherry tree)

1 cups raspberries

3/4 cups sugar

1 T lemon juice

3 cornstarch

Gently toss cherries, raspberries with sugar, add remaining ingredients and cook over low heat until boiling, pour into prepared pie crust.

Streusel Topping

3/4 cups flour

1/2 cup sugar

1 t chopped crystallized ginger

2 t grated orange peel

1/4 t salt

1 t shole milk

1 cup sliced almonds

Blend four, sugar, ginger, orange peel and salt in a bowl, cut in butter until coarse crumbs form. 

Blend in milk and add almonds, gently press onto pie filling and bake at 375 degrees for 40 minutes. 

Transfer pie to rack and cool completely.