Great cherry pie! My dad requested a cherry ie for his birthday dessert and he raved on this pie as well as the rest of us. YUM!

This is a very great Cherry Pie Recipe. I have made this pie for the holidays and everyone enjoys it. I only find one problem with this recipe. It lacks to tell you that you should drain and reserve some of the cherry pie filling. Whether your going to use Canned or homemade you should definitely make sure you drain and reserve the cherry juice. My best advice is drain all the juice from your canned or fresh cherrys. place the cherry filling into a bowl then add 1/3 full of cherry juice to it. Just enough so that it almost like you can see the juice raising up.

I made this cherry pie last night and it was delicious beyond belief or description. I followed the recipe except that I didn't have the almond extract so I doubled the vanilla. I added a teaspoon of lemon juice too because I was concerned that my cherries were too sweet. I have read tart cherries are the best and that they have a short season. Mine were delicious raw so I figured they had to be on the sweet side so I added the lemon juice for tartness which I read was the answer to that problem. Two packages of cherries equalled a generous 4 cups pitted. I had a tough time finding tapioca because I didn't realize all I needed was the Minute Tapioca by Kraft. Somehow I thought tapioca starch was a different product. I made a basket weave crust, brushed it with egg whites and sprinkled it with an extra large grain decorative sugar crystals. The sugar was gorgeous and made the top sparkle. I loved the texture it added to the final product as well. I made a foil crust guard which I never took off and the crust was nicely browned. It might have been due to the sugar topping. I put a cookie sheet under the pie but it did not drip one little bit. I cooled it on a rack and cut it about 1 and 1/2 hour later. It was by far the best cherry pie I have ever eaten. My husband was blown away by it too. It was just so special. It sliced perfectly too. Even the first slice was magazine perfect. We served it with vanilla ice cream. I can't say enough good about this recipe.

not sweet enough....i didn't think it was very good. next time i'll try something different.

My first ever made from scratch pie and it was delicous! After reading some of the reviews I was worried it would be too runny so I used 5 TBL of the tapioca instead of 4 and it was perfect.

This recipe is very delicious! Just a tip do not omit the almond extract. I made this twice, and the first time I made this I didn't have any almond extract. So I just added more vanilla extract, it turned out good but you could tell something was missing. I went out and got almond extract to try again and it made the pie soooo much better.

I can understand that this recipe would appeal to certain tastes. Unfortunately my family was not keen on the Tapioca. Very solid with a granular texture. 400 for 50 munites was way to hot and too long. Took the pie out at 40 minutes and it was cooked completely.

Made it for my husband this week. His favorite pie is cherry pie and fresh cherries were available. I'd never made a cherry pie without the canned stuff but the husband said this filling was wonderful. We're in discussions about the crust. :) We'll definitely be keeping and using this recipe again. Thanks!

My cherries were sweet so I cut the sugar to 1/2 cup. It was still too sweet. I also cut the almond extract to 1/8 tsp. I think next time I would omit the almond extract altogether and adjust the sugar according to how sweet the cherries are. The pie turned out great and I would use this recipe again with a few minor changes! I give it 4 1/2 stars but don't know how to put 1/2 star

Yum! I didn't have almond extract, but I added a little lemon zest and cinnamon to the cherry mixture, and used the topping from http://allrecipes.com/recipe/dutch-apple-berry-pie/detail.aspx . The Dutch Cherry Pie was delicious.