cherry pies

Red filling pastries

Cherry pies are dessert pastries filled with cherries, sugar, and thickening agents, baked in a crust.

The dish is associated with American home cooking and nostalgia: She baked cherry pies for the Fourth of July.

In rhyming slang, cherry pie can mean eye or lie.

Related

dessert · crust · baking dish · cooling rack · home cooking · stone fruits · red fruit · bake · comfort food · flavor · Twin Peaks · Americana · George Washington · mincemeat · tart · sweet · sugars · fruit

Opposites
dessert form/structure

cherry piescherry cheesecake

Fruit-topped cream cheese tart

cherry compote

dessert category

cherry piessavory pies

Non-sweet filled pastries

meat pies · shepherd's pie · steak and kidney pie · shepherd's pies · steak and kidney pies

dessert type/structure

cherry piescherry cake

Baked dessert with stone fruit

Family

cherry, pie, cherries, pies, pied

Familiarity
Top 50,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G