Cherry Pie

Grandpa's birthday is on Christmas Eve so I wanted to make sure that he got EXACTLY what he wanted for dessert. And what he wanted was good ol' fashioned cherry pie. Sure, I could have made the dough and cherry mix from scratch... but why reinvent the wheel? ;)

Ingredients:

• 2 refridgerated rolled pie crusts
• 2 cans of cherry mix
• A little time and TLC :)

Directions:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees
• Place one of the rolled pie crusts into pie pan, press again pan
• Add cherries
• Now this is the fun part... slice additional pie crust into 3/4 inch strip
• Slowly weave the strips across the top of the cherries
• Place pie in the oven
• After 15-20 minutes of baking, cover crust edge with strips of tinfoil so that they don't burn
• Continue to bake an additional 20-25 minutes until pie is golden and yummy

But oh wait. One last step. After finishing this labor of love, be careful not to....

Yep, that's right. I dropped it. Like a 5 year old who just dropped their ice cream cone, I told my husband. My bottom lip was sticking out and with a pout in my voice I explained the fiasco. And what did he do? Ran to the store and got me more ingredients. (Yes, I know, he's amazing. I'm a lucky girl!)

So after a SECOND attempt at cherry pie (to which my lattice top turned out much better) I had a pie for Grandpa's birthday.

SUCCESS!