Here’s an easy recipe for how to make homemade cherry pie filling to use in pies, cakes, cheesecakes, or simply to eat with a spoon!

Just one spoon of this thick and delicious cherry pie filling, and you will never go back to canned cherry pie filling again.

The easy recipe can be naturally sweetened, with no high fructose corn syrup, no Red 40, and no gelatin required. And it tastes ten times better than the canned version!

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Ways to use cherry pie filling

This cherry filling is perfect in Chia Pudding or Overnight Oats.

Stir it into parfaits or yogurt, use as a topping for black forest cake or cheesecake, or spoon it over pancakes, crepes, French toast, or waffles.
Or use the thick cherry sauce to make turnovers or pop tarts, hand pies or bars, cherry fluff salad, or cherry cobblers or crumbles.

Of course, the most popular way to use cherry pie filling is in a homemade cherry pie.

It’s a great topping for Keto Cheesecake or No Bake Cheesecake

Above, watch the step-by-step cherry pie filling recipe video

Homemade cherry pie filling ingredients

The cherry topping recipe calls for cherries, water, lemon juice, sweetener of choice, cornstarch, optional pinch of salt, and pure vanilla extract or almond extract.

The sweetener can be granulated, like regular sugar or coconut sugar. Or you can use an unrefined liquid sweetener like honey, agave, or pure maple syrup. For sugar ...