Duncan Hines Wilderness No Sugar Added Cherry Pie Filling, 20 oz

Wilderness is the Duncan Hines line of canned fruit fillings, and this 20 oz can holds cherries suspended in a thickened, glossy sauce that spoons straight from the can into a crust. No sugar added is a labeling term and nothing more: it means none was added in canning, not that the can is unsweetened, and the sweetness comes from a sweetener other than sugar alongside the fruit itself.

One can suits an 8-inch pie, a tray of hand pies, or a batch of turnovers; most 9-inch double-crust recipes call for two. Because the sauce is already thickened, there is no slurry to make and the filling holds its shape in the shell.

Bakers use it well away from pie: warmed over pancakes, waffles, or vanilla ice cream, layered into a trifle, swirled through oatmeal, spooned onto cheesecake, or dropped into thumbprint cookies and cream cheese danish before they go in the oven.