Easiest Ever Mini Cherry Pies

Is it a pie or is it Cherry Dump Cake?  Tada!  It's both. This week I had the idea of adapting a standard (minus the pineapple) cherry dump cake recipe to fit the mini pie shells I bought on Amazon.  It works perfectly and instead of cake, you get what I'm calling Easiest Ever Mini Cherry Pies.

This recipe is incredibly easy, but first you have to get your hands on some the 3 inch pie shells. You can get 50 of them for about $14 on Amazon, or can buy 2 packs of the 6 count mini graham pie shells (Keebler) from the baking aisle, use them for something, then re-use the pie shells. But I recommend treating yourself to a set of 50 because there are so many ways to use them. The ones I bought are these 3 inch (rim to rim they are 3 ½ inch) shells from Kitchen Dance. Disposable aluminum tart pans or mini pie pans.

But back to these mini cherry pies.

Here's the recipe and it's pretty straightforward. If you only want 6, you can use half a can of cherry pie filling and weigh out half a box of cake mix.

Recipe

Easiest Ever Mini Cherry Pies

Cookie Madness

Easiest Ever Mini Cherry Pies are basically dump cake made in a mini pie pans.

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Prep Time 10 minutes mins

Cook Time 35 minutes mins

Total Time 45 minutes mins

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Servings 12

Ingredients

 

• 1 21 oz can cherry pie filling
• ¼ teaspoon almond extract optional
• 1 box white cake mix 15.25 oz
• 1 stick 115 grams butter, melted

Instructions

 

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Have ready a rimmed baking sheet and 12 (3 inch) miniature pie pans.
• Mix the cherry pie filling and the almond extract, then divide evenly among the pie pans and set them on the baking sheet.
• In a bowl, combine the cake mix and melted butter and stir until crumbly. Divide crumbly mixture evenly over the cherry mixture, piling it slightly.
• Bake at 350 for about 35 minutes or until tops are browned.

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