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meaning you'll make the simple cherry jelly from scratch, but frozen puff pastry ensures that you won't have to spend too much time in the kitchen making pastry dough. The jelly will need several ...

Cook up a simple cherry filling (with added brandy, honey and orange zest), and using readymade pastry you can assemble a delicious and rather impressive dessert. Preheat the oven to 200C/400F/Gas 6.

There's nothing quite like homemade cherry pie – this easy version is topped with a pastry lid. Serve with a big scoop of vanilla ice cream. For the pie filling, heat the cherry jam and water in ...