Kitchen HACK: This is the Fastest and Easiest Way to Pit a Cherry
Speed up the troublesome process of pitting a million cherries for your pie, muffins, or cake. Here's a trick to make it SO simple!
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When cherry season rolls around, it's the time for cherry picking, tasting, and baking! The only thing we all dread about this fruit, though, is that annoying pit... It's such a hassle and time-sink, and it makes cherry pie a much more laborous process than it should be.
How about speeding up the de-pitting process, then? We have a hack for you that will change your life!
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All you need is an empty glass bottle (a beer bottle, for example) and a chopstick.
Place a cherry on top of the bottle. Then, using the chopstick, simply push the pit into the bottle. Continue to do this with each cherry, one at a time, and just let all the pits drop into the bottle to be emptied out afterward.
Like this, you can de-pit each cherry at lightning speed and have a batch ready to go in record time!
Looking for some cherry dessert inspiration? Here are 30 recipes that aren't pie!
Check out our all-time epic masterlist of kitchen hacks here.
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Chef Tips and Tricks
Try this clever trick to make the perfect zebra cake!
Ingredients
- 2 large water or soda bottles (empty)
- 2 cups flour
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 sticks butter
- 6 eggs
- 1 tbsp baking powder
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 4 tbsp cocoa powder
Method
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Ready 2 large plastic bottles, cleaned and dried.
- Add 1 cup of flour to each bottle.
- Add 1/2 cup of sugar to each.
- Melt butter, then add equal halves to each bottle.
- Add 6 eggs, 3 in each.
- Add 1/2 tbsp of baking powder to each.
- Add 1/2 cup of heavy cream to each.
- Shake the bottles thoroughly until the contents are well mixed.
- In one of the bottles only, add the cocoa powder.
- Beginning with the cocoa powder mixture, add a dolop of batter to the center of a circular
- baking tin. Do the same with the other mixture, placing the dolop directly in the center of the previous one.
- Continue with alternating additions of each mixture until all batter is used and the tin is full.
- Place in the oven and bake for 30 minutes.
- Serve and enjoy!
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