Sour Cherry Dessert with Whipped Cream
December 22nd, 2012 in Desserts by Julia Volhina
Total cooking time: 2h 15min
This is easy to make and tasty sour cherry dessert recipe. However I must warn you: because of alcohol content it isn’t suitable for children.
Either pitted sour cherry will work for this recipe whatever they are fresh, frozen or canned; of course, fresh ones will taste the best, but they are hard to come by, so I used canned ones from the local European store.
You can beat cream yourself or use some N2O charged cream whipper: just add cooled cream, confectioner’s sugar and liqueur to whipper and mix before pulling in the charger.
Ingredients:
- About 10oz of pitted sour cherries (fresh, frozen or canned)
- 6.5-7.0 oz of heavy cream
- 1 tbsp of sugar
- 3 tbsp of almond liqueur (amaretto or so)
- 2 teaspoons of confectioner’s sugar
- About 2 tablespoons of grated chocolate
How to prepare, step-by-step:
- Prepare ingredients:
- Mix sugar with sour cherries in a bowl (if you use canned cherries – remove juices before this step):
- Add 2 tablespoons of almond flavored liqueur, mix everything, cover bowl and put it to fridge for about 2 hours:
- If you use chocolate bar, grate about 2 tablespoons (to taste) on big slots of grater (if chocolate is too soft and it is hard to grate, put it to freezer for an hour or so before grating, it will go easier that way):
- Pour heavy cream to a mixing container, add confectioner’s sugar:
- Add remaining tablespoon of almond liqueur:
- And whip the cream with liqueur and confectioner’s sugar, you don’t need strong peaks, just foamy cream:
- Put quarter of all sour cherries into each of 2 dessert bowls:
- Pour juices produced by cherries, liqueur and sugar to bowls also:
- Cover cherries with a layer of whipped cream (about quarter of it for each portion):
- Split remaining amount of cherries in half and put them over the layer of whipped cream without any juices:
- And cover them with layer of whipped cream again (split remaining amount evenly between both bowls):
- Even whipped cream out a bit:
- Sprinkle with grated chocolate to taste:
- And serve soon after preparation (before cream liquify):
Can you skip the liqueur?
Yes