This hand-held dessert is perfect for serving a grab-and-go dessert that is easy to eat. Use sweet cherries for the sweetest flavor, and you’re going to love the cream cheese pie crust on this one too.
Fresh cherries are the best! They’re in season in the middle of summer, so take advantage of that!
All you need to make these Fresh Cherry Turnovers is a good cherry pitter to get rid of the pits inside the cherries in an efficient way! What a cool tool!! Slip the cherry into the slot, punch the metal gadget through and the pit slides right out. The cherry remains intact with a clean hole through the middle, and the plastic guard holds back the splattering cherry juice. As a result of this tool, our lives are happily filled with cherries.
How to make the cream cheese crust:
The crust is pretty much the easiest crust I’ve ever worked with (this is coming from someone who is severely crust-challenged). The whole thing just goes into the food processor and then is given a short chill in the fridge before rolling. I use the top of a plastic container to cut out the rounds for the turnovers. I then use a knife to lightly mark the halfway-mark of each circle.
The cherry mixture is simple… just some sugared fresh cherries with a lemony zest and added cornstarch. I plop a couple of tablespoonfuls onto each turnover half. The edges of that same half are brushed with a milky egg-wash.
The tines of a fork are used to press the edges together to seal them.
The turnovers are chilled in the fridge before continuing, and then brushed with egg wash again and sprinkled with coarse sugar.
Fresh and warm out of the oven, these Fresh Cherry Turnovers are fantastic little hand-pies. Slightly crunchy with a syrupy cherry filling tainted with lemon-flavor, we enjoy these plain. They’d also be fabulous with a scoop of ice cream or a dollop of freshly whipped cream.
They are also amazing as leftovers eaten the next day. Enjoy!
Here are a few more recipes using cherries that you might like to try:
Grilled Honey Chicken with Cherry Sauce Cherry Slab Pie Easy Cherry Cobbler Cherry Pie Cups Homemade Cherry Pie Filling Cherry Amaretto Pie
