I baked a cherry pie yesterday. Easy to do.
Recipe: 2 cans tart cherries, 2 regular size packages Jello vanilla pudding, 2 tablespoons butter. 1/4 cup sugar is optional - I don't. Buy a pack of two Pillsbury pie crusts. Use a 9-inch Pyrex pie pan. You'll put the pie pan on a cookie sheet. Pro tip: line cookie sheet with aluminum foil. Much easier to clean - just remove foil.
How to do it: Preheat oven to 450 degrees F. Take one crust and line bottom of dish. Put dish on cookie sheet.
In saucepan, combine cherries, butter, and pudding. Put pan on stove, turn heat to high. Stir constantly. When the mixture begins to boil, turn down the heat to half. Keep stirring until the liquid part of the mixture turns reddish-clear. When that happens empty the mixture into the pie pan, then put the other crust on top. Crimp the edges of the top and bottom crusts together, then cut five or six slits in the top crust.
When oven reaches 450 degrees F, put cookie sheet with pie pan into oven, bottom shelf. Let it bake for about 25 minutes, then move the cookie sheet to the top shelf, bake for five more minutes, then turn off oven, and let residual heat finish the baking, five minutes max. If the top crust is golden brown, and the filling is starting to bubble out the slits in the crust, pie is done. Take it out, let cool. Once fully cooled, cover with aluminum foil. Will keep for several days, even longer in the refrigerator.
This is easier than it sounds. Once you have baked a few cherry pies you'll be able to bake one in your sleep. And your pie will taste better than just about any bought from a store or a bakery. A standing invitation to gluttony.