Baking With Dried Cherries

Just when you thought that you’ve seen all the beauties and tasted all the sweetness of cherry, dried cherries come along with a variety of recipes to delight your eyes and to satisfy your cravings.

Dried cherries have many uses. They can be made into different snacks and desserts which are easy to prepare. Who would have thought that this petite fruit can be transformed to various luscious meals?

People typically eat dried cherries straight from the pack. But there’s a lot more than that. This kind of preserved cherry product can actually be the flavor that you’ve been looking for in your baked goods. Yes. Dried cherries can be your primary ingredient in making cookies, bread or pudding. Who says raisins are the only sun-dried fruits good for baking?

You can experiment on your own. Dried cherries, once again, are very versatile and adaptable. But to give you inspiration, here is a small list of some dried-cherry-enhanced baked food items.

Dried Cherries and Oatmeal Cookies. Oatmeal cookies have long been available on the market. Sometimes, these cookies are mixed with chocolate chips and/or raisins. But adding dried cherries could be a good twist. Dried tangy cherries would be the best kind of cherry to add since their taste can complement the sweetness of sugar in the biscuit. The softness of the cherry is also a good equalizer to the crunchiness of the oatmeal.

Dried Cherries Buttermilk Scones. Everyone loves scones because of their rich taste and their soft but crunchy texture. Adding the flavor of tangy dried cherry and the creaminess of buttermilk would give your taste buds a new level of excitement.

Cherry Orange Muffin. Baking muffins with dried cherries and orange juice never seemed this easy. All you have to do is squeeze an orange, and mix the grated pulp into a combination of eggs, sugar and butter. Next, put the blend of flour, soda and salt into the mixture. Add buttermilk and dried cherries. After baking, you can spread it with the squeezed orange juice and sprinkle it afterwards with sugar.

Dried Cherries Pudding. Pudding is one of everyone’s guilty pleasures. The sweetness it gives us is so irresistible! Dried cherry pudding might even make you crave for more. Usually, puddings made from dried cherries are mixed with other fruits, for instance, apple. Apple and dried cherries are, in fact, very compatible in making pudding. Gala apples mixed with cinnamon raisin bread and dried cherries could quench that luscious sweetness you’ve strongly desired for.

There are lots of recipes you can try. Just check them out in the Internet or any cook book. But of course, you can always experiment on your own. What’s important are your creativity, a little of your culinary skills, and some of your good old friends, dried cherries.