I want to make a chilled cherry cordial pie - help!

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I’m thinking of trying to replicate cherry cordial ice cream in a no-bake chilled pie, and wanted to ask for your help. My idea is something like this:

Chocolate crumb crust
Filling made with vanilla pudding (plus cream cheese?) mixed with chopped maraschino cherries
Topped with real whipped cream

Or alternately, use a graham cracker crust and add mini chocolate chips to the filling, kind of imitating an ice cream cone.

Whaddaya think? Does this sound easy / feasible / good to you? Any tips, tricks, suggestions, changes? Thanks in advance!

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I would certainly try a piece of this pie!

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I don’t know if the pudding/cream cheese would set up enough for a pie. You might need to use a gelatin. How about layering it? When you get your filling worked out, put about half of it down, then layer with a cherry filling*, then the rest of the other filling. I’d probably top with a chocolate ganache or at least some melted chocolate streaked across the top. The you could do some whipped cream at serving time or a bunch of little mounds of whipped cream so as not to completely cover the chocolate.

*For the cherry filling, perhaps marachino cherries, some sort of liqueur (there’s a cherry liqueur that I can’t think of the name of, chambourd maybe?) and then use some of the cherry juice and thicken it, cook with some cornstarch maybe?

I’m sure someone will be along with better ideas. I’d have to research some similar type recipes to see if my ideas are feasible.

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I haven’t looked around yet (I will), but Chambord is raspberry liqueur. For cherry, you want kirsch.

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Ah, thanks. I didn’t think Chambourd was right but it was the only name that came to mind.

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You might want to experiment with the kirsch, though, as it’s a fiery 80-proof brandy. There are also sweet cherry liqueurs out there, but they’re not as common. I think Clear Creek may make one, and of course there’s always maraschino liqueur.

Alternatively, you might want to look up the recipe I’ve posted for homemade maraschino cherries (essentially, frozen sweet cherries macerated in a 1:1 mix of brandy and maraschino).

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I found a recipe for a cherry cordial pie. It’s no bake but it seems to be a cooked custard type pie.

Here’s a recipe for a no bake peanut butter pie that uses whipped cream and cream cheese as a base. If you omit the peanut butter I am not sure if that would affect the texture, for flavor you could add some vanilla extract.
And here’s a recipe that uses cream cheese and sweetened condensed milk. This one uses whipped topping and sweetened condensed milk. And this one uses cream cheese, condensed milk and whipped topping. Perhaps one of these ideas would work as the base for your pie?

I think a lot of experimentation may be needed. : )

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Just had a thought: another possible alternative to maraschino cherries would be amarena cherries.

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Hmm … I’ll have to look more closely at those. It sounds just like what I’m looking for - a basic recipe that can be tweaked to fit my needs. I really do want the filling to be vanilla with just touches of cherry and chocolate, so I don’t think I want a ganache topping. Plus, I’m going for easy.

Thanks again, and I’ll let you know how it turns out.

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I agree that a ganache topping might be too much but a think streaks of melted chocolate would be nice. I would lean toward the cream cheese/whipped topping combo. Sweetened condensed milk always seems to me as if it would make things too sweet. YMMV. Keep us posted.