'tis the season!

[Mama Mangia]

MARASCHINO CHERRIES!

Yep - and they are great for cooking, baking, as well as garnishing your favorite drinks.

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[Mama Mangia]

Chocolate Covered Cherry Blondies

2 cups granulated sugar
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup cocoa
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup butter, melted
4 large eggs, lightly beaten
2 cups miniature marshmallows
1 (10 ounce) jar maraschino cherries, drained, coarsely chopped
1 (6 ounce) package semisweet chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and flour a 13 x 9-inch baking pan.

Combine first 5 ingredients in large bowl. Add butter and eggs, stirring until smooth. Pour batter into prepared pan. Bake for 28 minutes.

Sprinkle marshmallows evenly over hot brownies; return to oven. Bake for 1 minute. Sprinkle with cherries; let cool.

Place chocolate chips into a 2-cup glass measuring cup; microwave at HIGH for 1 minute. Stir until chocolate is smooth. Drizzle melted chocolate over uncut brownies. Cool. Cut into bars

[Mama Mangia]

Cherry Cordial Cake

3 eggs
1/4 c. water
1/2 c. veg. oil
1 2 layer white cake mix
1 small box of cherry jello
3/4 c. reserved marashino cherry juice
1 (16 oz) jar maraschino cherries; drained and coarsely chopped

Preheat oven to 350. Beat eggs on high speed until foamy, about 2 minutes. Blend water and oil with eggs. Slowly add cake mix and jello, beating constantly. Add maraschino cherries juice and beat for 2 additional minutes.

Gently stir maraschino cherries into the batter.

Pour batter into a greased and floured 12 cup bundt cake pan and bake for approximately 45 minutes or until cake tester comes out clean. When cool, ice with chocolate glaze.

Glaze
6 (1 oz) squares of semi-sweet baking chocolate
2/3 c. evaporated milk

In a small saucepan, combine chocolate and evaporated milk. Cook and stir over low heat until mixture comes to a boil. Lower heat and cook gently for 3 to 5 minutes, stirring constantly until thickened. Cool, stirring occasionally.

[Mama Mangia]

Cherry Squash Cake

1 c. red maraschino cherries, chopped
1/3 c. reserved cherry syrup
3 eggs
1 1/2 c. sugar
2 1/2 c. sifted-all purpose flour
4 T double acting baking powder
1 1/2 t. cinnamon
1 t. baking soda
1 t. salt
1 c. salad oil
2 c. peeled & grated raw acorn squash (1 medium)
1/2 c. finely chopped walnuts
confectioner's sugar
stemmed cherries for garnish

Heat oven to 350. Set aside chopped cherries & syrup. In large bowl, beat eggs. Add sugar & continue beating until well-mixed. Combine flour, baking powder, cinnamon,
baking soda & salt. Add to egg mixture alternately w/salad oil & reserved cherry syrup. Stir in chopped cherries, peeled & grated squash & walnuts. Mix well. Spoon into greased & floured 10 in. tube pan or 12 c. bundt pan. Bake 350 oven, 1 hr. & 10 min. Let stand in pan on wire rack for 10 min. Remove from pan & let cool completely. To serve, sprinkle w/confectioner's sugar and garnish w/ stemmed cherries.

[Mama Mangia]

Cherry Chip Jubilees

1 (18.25 ounce) box yellow cake mix
1/2 cup very soft butter
1 (6 ounce) package semisweet chocolate chips
1/2 cup walnuts or pecans
1/4 to 1/2 cup chopped maraschino cherries, drained well

Heat oven to 375 degrees F.

Combine cake mix, butter and egg in a large bowl. Stir in chocolate chips, nuts and cherries. Drop by rounded teaspoons on ungreased sheets. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes. Cool 1 minute before removing from baking sheet.

Makes 3 1/2 to 4 dozen.

[Mama Mangia]

Cherry Chocolate Cookies

1 1/3 cups butter
3/4 cup brown sugar
2 large eggs
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips, melted
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups quick or old-fashioned rolled oats
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
About one jar of maraschino cherries, drained
3/4 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips, melted

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.

1. Cream the butter and sugar together. Add the eggs and beat until light and fluffy, scraping the sides once (about five minutes). Add the melted chocolate and vanilla.

2. Add the rolled oats. Add the flour, salt, and baking powder and mix until combined.

3. Drop spoonfuls of dough on an ungreased baking sheet. Press a cherry deep into the dough for each. Bake for 11 or 12 minutes. Remove immediately to a wire rack to cool. Once cool, drizzle the cookie with melted chocolate.

[Mama Mangia]

Cherry Coconut Buns

6 tablespoons butter or margarine
1-1/2 cups self-rising flour
1/2 cup sugar
1 cup flaked coconut
1/2 cup maraschino cherry halves
1 egg
1 egg, separated
2 tablespoons maraschino cherry juice
1/2 cup flaked coconut
Maraschino cherry halves

Preheat oven to 425°F. Spray a baking sheet with non-stick vegetable spray.

In a large mixing bowl, cut butter into flour until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Add sugar, coconut, cherry halves, egg, egg yolk, and cherry juice; stir until mixture is well blended and has a sticky consistency.

Drop the mixture onto prepared baking sheet in small heaps; flatten slightly. Brush with egg white; sprinkle with coconut and top with cherry halves.

Bake 12 to 15 minutes or until delicately browned. Remove from baking sheet; cool completely on a wire rack.

[mamma_nee]

My favorite drink ....

shot of tequila - Pour over ice , add Orange juice w/pulp (fill to 3/4 of the way ), splash of pom - pomigranite juice ,and garnish with a strand of marachino cherries on a stirrer

very festive looking and Delish

[Cook Chatty Cathy]

My favorite drink ....

shot of tequila - Pour over ice , add Orange juice w/pulp (fill to 3/4 of the way ), splash of pom - pomigranite juice ,and garnish with a strand of marachino cherries on a stirrer

very festive looking and Delish

Sounds mighty close to a "Tequila Sunrise" to me MammaNee!!! They are delicious indeed, your sounds good too!!! I like tequilla straight from time to time as well!!! Tequilla is my liquor of choice, when I do indulge, I Love it!!! And of-course I love wine too!!! If I were going to be a drunk, I'd be a wino. hee-hee

[mamma_nee]

Yeah but when I order it out they never give the OJ with pulp and I gotta have my pulp.