Best Festive Cherrettes Recipes

FESTIVE CHERRYETTES

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This is my dad's favorite Christmas cookie. It is on the order of a shortbred cookie. I absolutely hate nuts but you don't really taste them in this cookie. I put the nuts in my blend and ground them fine.

Provided by Cheesehead

Categories Dessert

Time 35m

Yield 40 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 8

Ingredients

3/4 cup shortening
1/4 cup butter
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup powdered sugar
2 tablespoons vanilla (Yes Tablespoons)
2 cups flour
1 cup pecans, finely chopped
20 candied cherries

Steps:

Blend together shortening, butter, salt, sugar and vanilla.
Add flour and pecans and mix into a soft dough.
Chill.
Preheat oven to 325° F and grease cookie sheets.
Measure out level tablespoonfuls of dough and roll between palms of hands to form round balls.
Place on greased cookie sheets.
Press a little indentation in center in each cookie with a thimble and put half of cherry on top.
Bake in preheated 325 oven for 25 minutes.

CLASSIC CHERRIES JUBILEE

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This is a great, refreshing dessert, especially after a hearty meal. This does have to be prepared immediately before serving, but does not take a lot of time. Your guests will enjoy the blue flames when the brandy is ignited!

Provided by Wilemon

Categories Desserts Fruit Dessert Recipes Cherry Dessert Recipes

Time 30m

Yield 6

Number Of Ingredients 9

Ingredients

½ cup white sugar
2 tablespoons cornstarch
¼ cup cold water
¼ cup orange juice
1 pound Bing or other dark, sweet cherries, rinsed and pitted (or use frozen pitted cherries)
½ teaspoon finely grated orange zest
¼ teaspoon cherry extract
¼ cup brandy
3 cups vanilla bean ice cream

Steps:

Whisk together the sugar and cornstarch in a wide saucepan. Stir in the water and orange juice; bring to a boil over medium-high heat, whisking until thickened. Stir in the cherries and orange zest, return to a boil, then reduce heat, and simmer for 10 minutes. While the cherries are cooking, spoon the ice cream into serving bowls.
Remove the cherries from the heat, and stir in the cherry extract. Pour in the brandy, and ignite with a long lighter. Gently shake the pan until the blue flame has extinguished itself. Spoon the cherries over the bowls of ice cream.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 295.7 calories, Carbohydrate 48.3 g, Cholesterol 29 mg, Fat 8 g, Fiber 2.3 g, Protein 3.3 g, SaturatedFat 4.6 g, Sodium 53.5 mg, Sugar 42.3 g