This Maraschino Cherry Cupcakes Recipe is perfect for National Cherry Month, Valentine’s Day or any time of year!
While this Maraschino Cherry Cupcakes Recipe is delicious any time of year, it is particularly fitting for February. Not only is it National Cherry Month, but these red and white cuties are perfect for Valentine’s Day!
Later in the year, these pretty and tasty cherry cupcakes also add a summery feel to your picnic or backyard BBQ.
Maraschino Cherries flavor the batter and add a pop of color to the cupcakes and the frosting also has a hint of cherry flavor thanks to the cherry liquid.
If you want to add even more bright red color to your cupcake presentation, you can bake them in red foil cupcake liners. Their shiny surface will play off those bright red cherries.
For another delicious cherry recipe, try our Maraschino Cherry Cookies recipe! They’re super easy to make starting with a boxed cake mix.
Maraschino Cherry Cupcakes Recipe
Yields: 18 cupcakes Time: 1 hour 25 minutes
Ingredients:
Cupcakes: 1 jar (10 oz) maraschino cherries, drained, liquid reserved 2 cups all-purpose flour 1 tablespoon baking powder ¼ teaspoon salt ½ cup unsalted butter 1 ¼ cups sugar ½ cup maraschino cherry liquid ¼ cup whole milk 2 teaspoons almond extract 2 egg whites, beaten Optional: pink food color
Frosting: Reserved 1 tablespoon maraschino cherry liquid 1 cup butter, softened 3 ½ cups confectioners’ sugar 2 teaspoons milk 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1/8 teaspoon salt
Garnish: 18 maraschino cherries with stems
How to Make Cherry Cupcakes:
1. Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Line regular-size muffin cups with paper baking cups; set aside. 2. Finely chop cherries and place in paper-towel-lined bowl to drain while preparing batter. 3. In a medium bowl, stir together flour, baking powder and salt, set aside. In large bowl, beat butter and sugar with electric mixer on medium speed until well blended. 4. In a small bowl, stir together ½ cup cherry liquid, the milk and 2 teaspoons almond extract.
5. Beginning and ending with flour mixture, alternately add flour mixture and cherry mixture to butter mixture, beating well after each addition.
If desired, stir in a few drops of food coloring until desired pink color is achieved.
Fold in stiffly beaten egg whites. Fold in chopped cherries. Spoon batter into muffin cups, filling each about ¾ full.
6. Bake 20 to 25 minutes or until cupcakes spring back when lightly touched in center. Remove from muffin cups to cooling rack. Cool completely, about 30 minutes.
7. To make frosting, combine butter, sugar and salt in a bowl. Beat until blended. 8. Add the milk, vanilla and cherry liquid and beat for an additional 3 to 5 minutes or until smooth and creamy. 9. Pipe frosting onto cupcakes and garnish each with 1 cherry with stem.
Maraschino Cherry Cupcakes Recipe
Chrysa
These delicious Maraschino Cherry cupcakes are easy to make starting with a cake mix. They're perfect for Valentine's Day, Christmas or any time you want a sweet treat!
I am not a nutritionist. These values were calculated automatically with the Spoonacular Food API.
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These cherries are commonly used as a garnish in drinks, ice cream sundaes and embellishment in decorated cakes. They can also be used in cookies, muffins and cold cake fillings such as black forest cakes and as a topping in pineapple upsidedown cake.
These cherries are just as delicious in pound cakes, cookies, and ice creams as they are on top of drinks, trifles, and hams. Many of these recipes also use the juices in the jar for a double dose of cherry flavor.
Glace (candied) cherries are cooked in a sugar syrup until they are almost completely preserved and are then dried so that they are just slightly stickly. Maraschino cherries are instead stored in sugar syrup, are not cooked for such a long time and tend to be softer in texture.
Contrary to popular belief, grenadine is not a cherry-flavored syrup. Maraschino cherries have nothing to do with it. This sweet-tart syrup is actually made from pomegranates, and it is surprisingly easy to make at home.
Maraschino cherries, also known as co*cktail cherries, are preserved, sweetened, and artificially colored to become bright red cherries. That's why they have a different taste and composition (no pits) than natural cherries.
In their modern form, the cherries are first preserved in a brine solution usually containing sulfur dioxide and calcium chloride to bleach the fruit, then soaked in a suspension of food coloring (common red food dye is FD&C Red 40), sugar syrup, and other components.
An urban myth prevented me early on from eating them – word got around they were preserved in formaldehyde and could not be digested. Not quite, as it turns out. The cherries are actually preserved in sodium metabisulfate, calcium chloride and citric acid and subsequently dyed those alarming shades of red and green.
Does a maraschino cherry stay in your stomach for seven years? Uhm, no. That's another one of those weird urban myths you don't need to worry about any more. You digest maraschinos just as you would any other fruit or candy.
According to Tracey Brigman, EdD, associate director of the National Center for Home Food Preservation, an unopened jar of co*cktail cherries can last for up to two years. “Once opened, they can keep for about 6 to 12 months, as long as they are continuously refrigerated during that time,” Brigman continues.
Luxardo cherries are made in Italy. Each jar is packed with Italian-grown sour marasca cherries that are candied and soaked in sweet syrup. Luxardos are on a different level than the ice-cream-shop maraschinos of your childhood. Each fruit is dark and sticky with a satisfying bite.
Originally Answered: How long does it take for one maraschino cherry to digest? Easy answer: 14 - 52 hours. Digestion times are fairly regular by individual but vary from person to person. If something has not finished digesting in the time it normally takes you to digest something, it will simply pass in excrement.
Today, the majority of commercial maraschino cherries begin as regular cherries. Usually, varieties that are lighter in color, such as Gold, Rainier, or Royal Ann cherries, are used. The cherries are first soaked in a brine solution that typically contains calcium chloride and sulfur dioxide.
Maraschino is a clear, cherry-flavored liqueur that is made from Marasca cherries. It originates from the eastern coast of Croatia. It is still produced there as well as in northern Italy and other countries, including the U.S. The liqueur has a bitter-dry flavor profile and is enjoyed throughout the world.
A Shirley Temple is a non-alcoholic mixed drink traditionally made with ginger ale and a splash of grenadine, and garnished with a maraschino cherry. Modern Shirley Temple recipes may substitute lemon-lime soda or lemonade and sometimes orange juice, in part or in whole.
Bing Cherries. Bing cherries tend to be the most popular. ...
Rainier Cherries. These are the yellowish-red cherries. ...
Morello Cherries. This cherry type is well-loved by everyone, and they tend to be the best cherries for baking when it comes to the creation of cherry pie. ...
While there's no “wrong” decision when it comes to which variety to use, the best cherries for cake are probably the sweeter ones (Morello, Bing, or Rainier). For reference, Morello tends to be the most popular choice when it comes to cherry pie filling.
Surprisingly, there's more than one way to make maraschino cherries a grenadine substitution. The simplest one, of course, is by utilizing the liquid they're soaked in. It's most often sugar syrup, so if you like a bold sweetness, this is the ideal choice.
Generally speaking, Maraschino cherries are sweet and Amarenas are sour. The traditional European method for creating maraschino cherries is to preserve Marasca cherries in maraschino liqueur (think Luxardo Maraschino). Marasca is the type of cherry, and maraschino refers to the way it's processed.
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