Best Cherry Recipes. 25 of our favourite sweet and savoury recipes just in time for cherry season. Let’s put those beautiful summer fresh cherries to good use!
Best Cherry Recipes
Spring has arrived in full force, even here in Newfoundland! The trees finally have leafed out, tulips are blooming and the grass is finally turning from gold to green.
One of the best things about late spring and early summer is the availability of fresh sweet cherries. I look forward to them every year.
I’ve also featured plenty of cherry recipe ideas over the years. Today I’m gathering together 25 of the best, in a collection of sweet, and a few savoury, recipes.
These recipes are all you’ll need to celebrate the best of cherry season. In practically all these recipes, frozen cherries are easily substituted to enjoy at any time of year. I know I almost always have frozen cherries on hand.
You’ll want to as well, when you try just a few of these delicious recipes. Enjoy!
Best Cherry Recipes
A roundup of our favourite sweet and savoury recipes just in time for cherry season. Let's put those beautiful summer fresh cherries to good use!
The Perfect Cherry Pie - an old fashioned recipe using an all butter crust and plenty of sweet cherries in the filling.
Cherry Cheesecake Scones. Fantastically delicious, indulgent scones with plump cherries and chunks of both vanilla cheesecake and white chocolate baked inside. A perfect addition to a Mother's Day or Easter brunch.
Cherry Orange Pork Medallions. An easy sweet and sour cherry sauce with a citrus twist goes deliciously well with pork medallions from simply seasoned and pan roasted pork tenderloin.
Cherry Vanilla Coffee Cake with Cream Cheese Glaze - a most vanilla scratch cake baked on top of sweet dark cherries then glazed with cream cheese frosting. Delicious at a celebration brunch but good enough to serve as a decadent dessert too, especially while still warm.
Chewy Chocolate Cherry Brownies - a chocolate and cherry explosion of flavour as chewy brownies get pieces of sweet cherries baked right in and even more in the delicious frosting.
A great cherry cobbler recipe to make the best of ripe fresh cherries in an amazing warm comfort food dessert. Frozen cherries will work well out of season.
Almond Chicken with Sweet and Sour Cherry Sauce. A tasty combination of flavours & textures that's sure to impress whether at a dinner party or weekday meal.
Chocolate Cherry Cheesecake Trifle. Layers of cake, chocolate sauce, cherry compote and cheesecake filling. A real celebration dessert that's terrific for serving large crowds.
Beautifully light vanilla and almond flavored muffins with ripe cherries at the center and a topping of crispy, buttery graham cracker crumb streusel. Delicious, impressive, and probably much easier than you think to prepare.
Cherry Cake - a moist pound cake based upon a favourite Christmas tradition but using fresh sweet cherries instead of glacé fruit. Make it with frozen cherries too!
Cherry Apple Jam. An amazing jewel-like jam that is utterly delicious on plain toast for breakfast or on luscious desserts like this super easy sour cream flan.
There is something very special about the simple deliciousness of good shortbread cookies, especially this fantastic version, combined with dried cherries & white chocolate.
Slightly sweet and a little tangy, this oven roasted jam also gets a fruity and peppery note from some crushed pink peppercorns for a nicely balanced combination that compliments the creamy goat cheese beautifully.
Mini Black Forest Cheesecakes - At only about 200 calories each, these little cupcake sized Black Forest Cheesecakes pack a maximum of cheesecake enjoyment with a minimum of guilt.
This delicious almond and vanilla flavored coffee cake gets a swirl of sweet cherry compote through the cake before being topped by a buttery almond shortbread crumble.
Chocolate Cherry Upside Down Cake. A super quick and easy dessert that makes a wonderful weekday treat. This delicious cake will help you make it through Hump Day!
Cherry Almond Squares - cherry and almond flavours are a natural combination and this is the easiest recipe that I've found yet to make these cookie bars using fresh or frozen cherries.
Chocolate Cherry Cheesecake Bars. A luscious combination of sweet cherries, creamy cheesecake and indulgent chocolate.
Chunky Cherry Chocolate Chip Muffins - the best chocolate chip mufin recipe with chunks of sweet, fresh cherries baked right in. A sure hit at any brunch.
Perfectly grilled pork chops served with cherries and thyme that are marinated in a balsamic vinegar reduction.
A smooth as silk chocolate mousse cheesecake swirled with a heavenly sweet cherry compote. Such a beautiful combination of flavours.
Graham Crumble Cherry Bars. An unusual but delicious graham cracker crumb crumble cookie bar with a filling of sweet cherry compote.
Double Chocolate Cherry Crumble Muffins. Incredibly delicious chocolate & chocolate chip muffins with pops of sweet cherries and a vanilla shortbread crumble topping.
Easy Cherry Peach Turnovers - use ready made, store bought, puff pasty to quickly put these easy turnovers together for a weekend brunch or even to serve warm with ice cream as a delicious summer dessert.
Cherry Spice Scones. Bursting with plump cherries and scented with aromatic spices, these delicious scones are sure to be the hit of any weekend brunch.
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