Homemade Maraschino cherries
An easy-to-make recipe for delicious, classy cocktail cherries
Prep Time 20 minutes minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes minutes
Servings 40
1 cherry pitter
1 sauce pan
1 large spoon
1 preserving jar,
- 0.5 lb sweet, dark cherries
- 0.5 lb caster sugar
- 5 oz unsweetened cherry juice
- 3 oz Maraschino Liqueur
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.