Which cherries do I use for cherry pie When making a cherry pie is it best to use frozen cherries or canned cherry pie filling when you don't have access to fresh cherries.
The frozen ones are just like fresh, only softer and they drip their juice out - but that's OK when you are going to bake them anyway. Canned cherry pie filling is sweetened and spiced, so it is going to taste the way the canner made it, not like homemade. If I go to the trouble of baking a pie, I always go all the way and make my own filling, not using the premade stuff - then I could just go out and buy the whole pie.