KT Baked It: Cherry Cheesecake Pie

Another birthday at work means another dessert to bake! This month's cake came with a special request for cherry pie or cherry cheesecake. Luckily I found a recipe to do both justice. This recipe came from Woman's Day, and it was very easy to make with few ingredients.

What you need:
1 box of premade pie dough (comes with two packages)
Two 8 oz. blocks of cream cheese, softened
1 egg
1/2 cup of sugar
1 Tbl corn starch
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 can of cherry pie filling

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.

Unwrap one package of pie dough and line a 9 inch pie dish with the dough.

Next, make the cream cheese filling. In a mixing bowl, combine the corn starch and sugar. Beat in the cream cheese using an electric mixer. Then add in one egg and the vanilla.

Pour the cream cheese batter into the pie dish.

Top with the can of cherry pie filling.

Next, I made a lattice on top of the pie filling by cutting strips of pie dough on a sheet of wax paper.

I had about 1/3 of the remaining pie dough left which I cut into strips and braided.

I put the braid around the rim of the pie. I used an egg white and brushed the strips of dough over the top as directed in the recipe.

Bake the pie in preheated oven for 50-60 minutes or until the top is golden brown and the pie filling is bubbling.

Voila! This was delicious. I think it would also be good with a pumpkin filling or maybe blueberry. Great for a Thanksgiving dessert too...