What Are Cherry preserves and How Can I Use Them?
Wondering what to do with cherry preserves? This guide covers how to pick them, cook them, store them, and swap them — with 14 recipes to put them to work.
| In Chinese: | 樱桃蜜饯 | |
| British (UK) term: | Cherry preserves | |
| en français: | conserves de cerises | |
| en español: | conservas de cereza |
Recipes using cherry preserves
There are 14 recipes that contain this ingredient.
Cake Pockets
Pressed angel food cake sandwiches filled with chocolate chips, marshmallows, cherry preserves, or cinnamon sugar. Made in a sandwich maker until golden and gooey. Kids love these.
Jam Shortbread
Jam shortbread bars sandwich a layer of cherry or raspberry preserves between two almond-rich shortbread layers. A buttery, almond-scented sliced bar for tea trays and holiday tins.
Small-Cake Pockets
Angel food cake slices stuffed with chocolate chips, marshmallows, fruit preserves, or coconut, then grilled golden in a sandwich maker. A 15-minute dessert kids go wild for.
Peanut Butter & Jelly Jewels
Peanut butter thumbprint cookies filled with cherry preserves. Soft, nutty peanut butter dough with a jewel-toned jelly center in every bite.
Sour Cream Cherry Coffee Cake
Sour cream coffee cake swirled with cherry preserves and brightened with lemon zest. A dense, moist breakfast cake with no yeast required, ready in under an hour.
Greek Charoset
Greek-style charoset with whole orange, dates, raisins, cherry preserves, sweet wine, and pine nuts. A Sephardic Passover recipe with warm spice and fruit.
Fresh Berry Tarts
Fresh berry tarts: a pair of giant 10x15 inch sheet tarts with vanilla cream over sweet pie crust, one tart piled with glazed cherries, the other with glossy blueberries.
Chocolate Chip-Cherry Pie
This is a wonderful pie, very chocolate flavor, and all the ingredients are very well to cook this recipe.
Cherry Pork Loin
Cherry pork loin roast rubbed with thyme and black pepper, then glazed with a sweet-tart cherry preserve sauce spiked with red wine vinegar, cloves, nutmeg, and cinnamon.
Cherry Pinwheel Cookies
Buttery slice-and-bake pinwheel cookies swirled with cherry preserves and scented with vanilla and almond extract. Roll, freeze, slice, and bake to golden perfection.
Cassata Napoletana
Cassata Napoletana layers thin sponge cake with cherry preserves, rich Neapolitan custard, chopped walnuts, and candied fruit. A no-bake Italian celebration cake that chills to set.
Cherry ChocolateTrifle
Layered chocolate pound cake soaked in kirsch, topped with sour cherries, rich homemade chocolate custard, and clouds of whipped cream. A showpiece trifle for 18.
Cherry Almond Glazed Pork
Cherry almond glazed pork loin roasted low and slow, then finished with a spiced cherry preserves glaze of cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and toasted almonds. A show-stopping holiday roast.
