Dolci Misti Pie

On a recent to trip to Italy, I ate a lot of great desserts.  Here is one of two pies inspired on that trip.  It is combination of everything that I loved that is not tiramisù.

Ingredients:
150g amaretti
1/3 cup of sugar
6 tablespoons of melted butter
1 can of dark sweet cherries (Amarena, if you can find them and you're a millionaire)
500g of ricotta
175g of sugar
2 egg yolks
1 teaspoon of lemon zest
1/4 teaspoon of cinnamon
1/4 cup of pine nuts

Directions:
Process the amaretti and 1/3 cup of sugar in a food processor until it looks like coarse sand.  Drizzle in the melted butter.  Press into a pie plate.  Stick crust in refrigerator.  Preheat oven to 325oF.  Whisk ricotta, sugar, yolks, lemon zest and cinnamon together.  Remove crust from refrigerator and place drained cherries in a single layer on the bottom.  Pour the ricotta mixture over the top.  Sprinkle with pine nuts.  Bake for 1 hour.  Allow to cool.  Refrigerate.

This pie had all the flavors I was looking for.  It was amazing.  I wasn't thrilled with the crust, but I modified the recipe above to make it better. This pie just tastes like Italy.

Piece out!
Justin