What Are Candied cherries and How Can I Use Them?
Wondering what to do with candied cherries? This guide covers how to pick them, cook them, store them, and swap them — with 140 recipes to put them to work.
Nutrition
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size 1 cherry (NLEA serving) (5g)Where found
Candied cherries are usually found in the baking supplies section or aisle of the grocery store or supermarket.
Food group
Candied cherries are a member of the Fruits and Fruit Juices US Department of Agriculture nutritional food group.
How much do candied cherries weigh?
| Amount | Weight |
|---|---|
| 1 cherry (NLEA serving) | 5 grams |
Related
Fruits and Fruit Juices
| In Chinese: | 蜜饯樱桃 | |
| British (UK) term: | ||
| en français: | cerises confites | |
| en español: | cerezas confitadas |
Recipes using candied cherries
There are 140 recipes that contain this ingredient.
Classic Panettone
An Italian Christmas is not complete without this high-domed cylinder of fruit-studded sweet bread.
Vegan Christmas Cake
Vegan Christmas cake packed with candied pineapple, cherries, citrus peel, raisins, and currants, bound without eggs or dairy. A long-baking holiday fruitcake for slicing into thin festive servings.
Christmas Memory Fruitcake
Christmas memory fruitcake steams then bakes a bourbon-soaked, dense old-fashioned fruitcake loaded with Brazil nuts, raisins, candied fruit, figs, and warming spices. Heirloom holiday recipe.
Dark Christmas Cake
Dark Christmas cake is the real, old-fashioned fruitcake: dense with raisins, currants, figs, dates, and almonds, deepened with brown sugar, prune juice, and brandy, then aged in brandy-soaked cheesecloth. Make it now, slice it at Christmas.
Christmas Fruit Cookies
Just like little fruitcakes! I soaked my fruit in the bourbon overnight. Easy recipe to put together and great way to use extra fruit from making my fruitcakes.
Almond Cookies #4
Mediterranean almond cookies made with ground almonds, egg whites, and candied cherries. Low-temperature baked treats dusted with powdered sugar and optional rosewater.
Awesome Yuletide Chocolate Chip Cookies
Yuletide chocolate chip cookies loaded with candied cherries, currants, pecans, and almonds. A festive holiday cookie with brandy flavoring and warm pumpkin pie spice that ages beautifully in the cookie tin.
Chocolate Balls with Cherry Centers
Handmade chocolate truffles with brandy-soaked cherry centers, rolled in cocoa and powdered sugar. Dense, rich, and intensely chocolatey. Makes 50 pieces for gifting or holiday candy trays.
Kay's Fruit Cake
No-egg fruit cake loaded with candied cherries, pineapple, dates, toasted coconut, and nuts, bound with sweetened condensed milk and glazed with orange juice and honey.
Jeweled Cookies
Buttery slice-and-bake cookies studded with candied fruit, walnuts, and raisins. Freeze the dough ahead, slice thin, and bake for festive sparkle in every bite.
Jeweled Cookies
Buttery slice-and-bake cookies studded with candied fruit, walnuts, and raisins. Freeze the dough ahead, slice thin, and bake for festive sparkle in every bite.
Christmas Tree Bread
Containing candied fruit and topped off with frosting, this bread is perfect as a small snack after dinner.
Cinnamon Twist Coffee Cake1
A layered yeasted coffee cake with potato dough, cinnamon-sugar filling, and chopped almonds. Circles of soft dough are stacked and twisted into a show-stopping breakfast centerpiece glazed with powdered sugar icing.
Festive Fruitcake with Sweet Apricot Glaze
Festive holiday fruitcake loaded with pecans, candied pineapple, dates, golden raisins, and candied citrus peel. Laced with orange liqueur and aged up to three weeks.
Holiday Chocolate Fruitcake
Chocolate fruitcake: cocoa-cream cheese batter studded with candied cherries, golden raisins, pecans and a hint of brandy and rum. The fruitcake for people who don't think they like fruitcake.
Wedding Cake
Traditional wedding fruitcake with candied cherries, pineapple, dates, raisins, currants, citron, and nuts in a spiced batter. Slow-baked at low heat for a dense, rich loaf.
Spumoni Slices
Spumoni slice-and-bake cookies with three layered doughs: cherry pink, chocolate, and pistachio green with rum flavoring. A colorful Italian-inspired Christmas cookie.
Fudge Drops
Fudge drops made with melted milk chocolate, granola cereal, and salted peanuts. A 10-minute no-bake candy that only needs a microwave and 3 ingredients.
Honey Macaroonies
Honey macaroonies with oats, coconut, walnuts, brown sugar, and honey pressed into mini muffin cups and topped with candied cherries. No-egg, no-fuss bite-sized cookies.
Chocolate Tortoni
Chocolate tortoni is a frozen Italian dessert with two kinds of chocolate, whipped cream, beaten egg whites, toasted almonds, and candied cherries. Elegant, no-churn, and make-ahead.
Nicky's Favourite Shortbread
Classic buttery shortbread squares with unsalted butter, powdered sugar, and a candied cherry on each. Tender, crumbly, and they improve with age stored in a tin.
Little Fruit Cakes
Little fruit cake squares packed with chopped dates, candied cherries, and pecans, baked in a 9-inch pan and rolled in powdered sugar. Bite-sized holiday treats.
Santa's Whiskers
Santa's Whiskers are festive slice-and-bake cookies with candied cherries and pecans in a buttery dough, rolled in flaked coconut for a snowy, whiskery edge.
Holiday Almond Wreaths
Holiday almond wreath cookies piped from a star tip and decorated with red and green candied cherries. Buttery almond shortbread in a festive Christmas-tin shape.
Holiday Almond Wreaths
Holiday almond wreath cookies piped from a star tip and decorated with red and green candied cherries. Buttery almond shortbread in a festive Christmas-tin shape.
