Couple of notes

Totally forgot to add the egg to the crust. Was fine, except I am thinking the egg would have made the dough a teensy bit easier to handle?

Couldn't easily find the sour cherries, so I went with sweet, and just cut back on the sugar. Also, seemed totally fine.

How to Pit a Cherry the Easy Way

Method

1 - Couldn't find sour cherries, so the sweet variety will have to suffice... Will cut down on the sugar to compensate.

2 - This cherry pitter worked like a charm

3 - Pitted cherries

4 - The pits.

5 - Close up of the pitted cherries

6 - Melt the butter

7 - Mixing in the sugar

8 - Adding cherries to the butter sugar mixture - a little blurry (action shot?)

9 - Gorgeousness!

10 - Close up of the juices... Will use some for the roux.

11 - Cornstarch for the roux

12 - The roux : cornstarch, lemon juice & cherry juice

13 - The pouring of the roux...

14 - Thickening

15 - Butter and sugar for the crust

16 - Close up with lemon peel

17 - The dough discs, ready to 'chill'

18 - Chilled dough; ready to roll...

19 - Dough rolled out and pressed into tart pan--ready for the oven.

20 - Pre-baked at 350F for 15 min...

21 -  Spread the chilled cherry filling in the pre-cooked tart shell.

22 -  Filled and smoothed out.

23 - Rolled out 2nd dough disc and used cookie cutters to cut out shapes.

24 - Close-up

25 - Arrange cut-out shapes over top.

26 - Dust sugar over the shapes.

27 - Put a little cinnamon sugar on the extra pieces of dough. Once baked, they were a perfect tea biscuit... A bit like shortbread. Yummy.

28 - Into the oven!

29 - A little Smirnoff citron, sparkling water and pomegranate seeds while waiting for the torte to bake.

30 - Cooling...right out of the oven.

31 - and... Voila!  Ready to eat!

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