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Homemade Maraschino cherries

An easy-to-make recipe for delicious, classy cocktail cherries
Course Dessert
Cuisine Italian
Keyword maraschino
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Servings 40
Cost $9

Equipment

  • 1 cherry pitter
  • 1 sauce pan
  • 1 large spoon
  • 1 preserving jar,

Ingredients

  • 0.5 lb sweet, dark cherries
  • 0.5 lb caster sugar
  • 5 oz unsweetened cherry juice
  • 3 oz Maraschino Liqueur

Instructions

  • Pit your cherries and put them aside for a moment
  • Make the syrup for soaking your cherries by adding sugar, juice, and liqueur into a saucepan. Boil the mixture until the sugar fully dissolves.
  • Let the mix simmer at medium heat for a few minutes to cook out the alcohol from the liqueur, if you want to. Make sure it's only simmering, not actually boiling.
  • Now, add the cherries to your saucepan and reduce the heat further. Let the cherries soak up the syrup at a low simmer for 10 minutes.
  • Remove the saucepan from the stove and let the cherry-syrup mix cool down.
  • Fill your homemade cocktail cherries in a preserving jar - half cherries, half syrup- and store them in the fridge until the next time you mix your favorite drinks.