Cherry Pie with Chocolate Pastry

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    easily
    • Difficulty

      Easy

    • Ready in

      55 min

Appears in
In the Mood for Entertaining

By Jo Pratt

Published 2009

  • About

Sunday lunch isn’t complete without a fruit pie for pud.

Ingredients

For the Pastry

  • 175 g plain flour
  • 25 g cocoa powder
  • 100

Method

To make the pastry, sift the flour and cocoa powder into a food processor and blitz with the butter to form fine crumbs. Add the 4 tablespoons of sugar and then gradually add enough of the milk, processing briefly, to form a soft dough. Wrap the dough in clingfilm and chill for 30 minutes or so.

While the pastry is chilling, remove the stones from the cherries. This is fairly time-consu