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This site is the main source for all of the latest news and information about sweet cherries from the Northwest including: health information, recipe ideas, tips on freezing, canning and drying, as well as information about the famous growing region located in the great Northwest. More than 2,500 growers in the Northwest work tirelessly throughout the year to bring to you the largest, sweetest, freshest, highest quality sweet cherries available.
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Happy National Pastry Day! 🥐🍒
Today calls for something flaky, cozy, and a little bit sweet - and a homemade cherry danish checks every box.
Whether you use dried cherries simmered into a quick compote or a spoonful of cherry preserves, the bright cherry filling brings the perfect pop of color and flavor to buttery pastry layers. It’s an easy treat to make at home and even better to share on a chilly morning with coffee.
Celebrate the day right... make it a cherry danish day. 🍒✨
Happy National Pastry Day! 🥐🍒
Today calls for something flaky, cozy, and a little bit sweet - and a homemade cherry danish checks every box.
Whether you use dried cherries simmered into a quick compote or a spoonful of cherry preserves, the bright cherry filling brings the perfect pop of color and flavor to buttery pastry layers. It’s an easy treat to make at home and even better to share on a chilly morning with coffee.
Celebrate the day right... make it a cherry danish day. 🍒✨
If you want a holiday cocktail that looks festive and tastes even better, this one’s your new signature sip. Bright red, cherry-forward, and served in a martini glass with fresh cherries on top - it’s the kind of drink that makes any gathering feel instantly celebratory. 🍒🍸✨
🍒 Crimson Cherry Martini🍒
Bold color, big flavor, effortless holiday magic.
Ingredients:
🍒 1.5 oz cherry juice or tart cherry concentrate
🥃 2 oz vodka
🍊 0.5 oz triple sec or orange liqueur
🍯 0.5 oz simple syrup (optional, for sweetness)
❄️ Ice
🍒 Fresh cherries for garnish
Instructions:
1. Add cherry juice, vodka, triple sec, and simple syrup to a shaker.
2. Fill with ice and shake until icy cold.
3. Strain into a chilled martini glass.
4. Garnish with fresh cherries on a cocktail pick.
Red, refreshing, and perfectly festive - the ultimate holiday martini. 🍒✨
If you want a holiday cocktail that looks festive and tastes even better, this one’s your new signature sip. Bright red, cherry-forward, and served in a martini glass with fresh cherries on top - it’s the kind of drink that makes any gathering feel instantly celebratory. 🍒🍸✨
🍒 Crimson Cherry Martini🍒
Bold color, big flavor, effortless holiday magic.
Ingredients:
🍒 1.5 oz cherry juice or tart cherry concentrate
🥃 2 oz vodka
🍊 0.5 oz triple sec or orange liqueur
🍯 0.5 oz simple syrup (optional, for sweetness)
❄️ Ice
🍒 Fresh cherries for garnish
Instructions:
1. Add cherry juice, vodka, triple sec, and simple syrup to a shaker.
2. Fill with ice and shake until icy cold.
3. Strain into a chilled martini glass.
4. Garnish with fresh cherries on a cocktail pick.
Red, refreshing, and perfectly festive - the ultimate holiday martini. 🍒✨
It’s time to dig into that freezer. 🍒❄️
If you’ve been saving frozen cherries for “the right moment,” this is it - holiday season is the perfect excuse to turn them into a rich, ruby-red cherry simple syrup.
Use it in cocktails, mocktails, sodas, pancakes, oatmeal, desserts... anything that needs a little extra festive flair. It’s quick, delicious, and instantly transforms your holiday creations.
It’s time to dig into that freezer. 🍒❄️
If you’ve been saving frozen cherries for “the right moment,” this is it - holiday season is the perfect excuse to turn them into a rich, ruby-red cherry simple syrup.
Use it in cocktails, mocktails, sodas, pancakes, oatmeal, desserts... anything that needs a little extra festive flair. It’s quick, delicious, and instantly transforms your holiday creations.
Fact or Fiction:
“Cooking cherries eliminates their health benefits.” 🍒🔥
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Fiction!
While heat can reduce certain nutrients in some foods, cherries hold onto many of their biggest benefits even after cooking. Their antioxidants, fiber, vitamins, and polyphenols remain present in baked, roasted, and simmered dishes - meaning cherry pies, sauces, compotes, and crisps are still delivering measurable goodness.
In fact, some studies show that cooking can make certain antioxidant compounds more available to the body. So go ahead and enjoy those warm winter cherry recipes without worry - the flavor isn’t the only thing you’re getting. 🍒✨
Save this for your next myth-busting moment in the kitchen.
Fact or Fiction:
“Cooking cherries eliminates their health benefits.” 🍒🔥
.
.
.
.
Fiction!
While heat can reduce certain nutrients in some foods, cherries hold onto many of their biggest benefits even after cooking. Their antioxidants, fiber, vitamins, and polyphenols remain present in baked, roasted, and simmered dishes - meaning cherry pies, sauces, compotes, and crisps are still delivering measurable goodness.
In fact, some studies show that cooking can make certain antioxidant compounds more available to the body. So go ahead and enjoy those warm winter cherry recipes without worry - the flavor isn’t the only thing you’re getting. 🍒✨
Save this for your next myth-busting moment in the kitchen.
Holiday sides that steal the show are officially in their era. This roasted butternut squash with cherries is sweet, savory, crunchy, and downright irresistible. Perfect for December dinners, potlucks, and those “I need something easy but impressive” moments. Save this for your holiday table.
🍒 Butternut Squash with Cherries 🍽️
Serves a crowd, disappears fast.
Ingredients:
🎃 1 butternut squash, skin removed and cubed
🫒 2 tbsp olive oil
🍒 1/3 cup dried cherries, chopped
🌰 1/3 cup hazelnuts, chopped
🍁 1 tbsp maple syrup
🧀 1/3 cup crumbled feta
Instructions:
1. Preheat oven to 400. Spread cubed squash on a baking sheet, drizzle with olive oil, and season with salt and pepper. Roast 15 minutes.
2. Pull the tray out and sprinkle chopped dried cherries and hazelnuts on top.
3. Drizzle with maple syrup, toss everything together, and roast another 15 minutes.
4. Finish with crumbled feta and serve warm.
Notes
Double it if you’ve got a full house.
Share this with someone who’s hosting this year or save it for your holiday lineup. 🍒✨
Holiday sides that steal the show are officially in their era. This roasted butternut squash with cherries is sweet, savory, crunchy, and downright irresistible. Perfect for December dinners, potlucks, and those “I need something easy but impressive” moments. Save this for your holiday table.
🍒 Butternut Squash with Cherries 🍽️
Serves a crowd, disappears fast.
Ingredients:
🎃 1 butternut squash, skin removed and cubed
🫒 2 tbsp olive oil
🍒 1/3 cup dried cherries, chopped
🌰 1/3 cup hazelnuts, chopped
🍁 1 tbsp maple syrup
🧀 1/3 cup crumbled feta
Instructions:
1. Preheat oven to 400. Spread cubed squash on a baking sheet, drizzle with olive oil, and season with salt and pepper. Roast 15 minutes.
2. Pull the tray out and sprinkle chopped dried cherries and hazelnuts on top.
3. Drizzle with maple syrup, toss everything together, and roast another 15 minutes.
4. Finish with crumbled feta and serve warm.
Notes
Double it if you’ve got a full house.
Share this with someone who’s hosting this year or save it for your holiday lineup. 🍒✨
Today (and every day), we’re feeling extra thankful. 🍒🧡
From the hardworking growers who bring our cherries to life, to the fans, foodies, and families who make them part of their favorite moments - thank you.
You’re the reason cherry season is more than just a harvest - it’s a celebration of connection, care, and the simple joy of sharing something sweet.
Wishing you and your loved ones a happy, delicious, and cherry-filled Thanksgiving. 🦃✨
Today (and every day), we’re feeling extra thankful. 🍒🧡
From the hardworking growers who bring our cherries to life, to the fans, foodies, and families who make them part of their favorite moments - thank you.
You’re the reason cherry season is more than just a harvest - it’s a celebration of connection, care, and the simple joy of sharing something sweet.
Wishing you and your loved ones a happy, delicious, and cherry-filled Thanksgiving. 🦃✨
Wait - don’t panic. 🦃 You still have time to make something amazing for Thanksgiving.
Grab those frozen cherries hiding in your freezer and turn them into the easiest (and prettiest) side dish on the table: Cherry Cranberry Sauce. 🍒✨
Sweet, tart, and perfectly festive - it’s the kind of shortcut that tastes like you planned it all week. 😉
Wait - don’t panic. 🦃 You still have time to make something amazing for Thanksgiving.
Grab those frozen cherries hiding in your freezer and turn them into the easiest (and prettiest) side dish on the table: Cherry Cranberry Sauce. 🍒✨
Sweet, tart, and perfectly festive - it’s the kind of shortcut that tastes like you planned it all week. 😉
Looking for a gift that says I thought of you without spending hours at the mall? 🎁🍒
Here are 5 fun DIY gift ideas for the cherry lover in your life (aka the person who always picks the cherry dessert first):
1️⃣ Cherry Cross-Stitch Art
Find a cute cherry pattern online, grab some red and green thread, and make a tiny framed cross-stitch - it’s giving cozy cottagecore meets wholesome grandma vibes. 🧵🍒
2️⃣ Homemade Cherry Jam
Use frozen or preserved Northwest cherries and gift in mini jars with a cute handwritten label - bonus points if you tie it with twine and a cinnamon stick.
3️⃣ Cherry-Infused Sugar or Salt
Blend dried cherries with sugar (for baking) or flaky sea salt (for cocktails and snacks). It’s colorful, sweet, and totally unexpected.
4️⃣ Cherry Scented Candle
Grab a candle-making kit and add cherry fragrance oil - or melt and re-pour an old candle into a new jar with a fresh label.
5️⃣ “Cherry on Top” Gift Basket
Fill a basket with cherry treats - chocolate-covered cherries, jam, preserves, dried cherries, and a mini recipe card for cherry scones. 🧺✨
These gifts are thoughtful, budget-friendly, and guaranteed to make anyone smile (especially if that someone is… you 😉)
Looking for a gift that says I thought of you without spending hours at the mall? 🎁🍒
Here are 5 fun DIY gift ideas for the cherry lover in your life (aka the person who always picks the cherry dessert first):
1️⃣ Cherry Cross-Stitch Art
Find a cute cherry pattern online, grab some red and green thread, and make a tiny framed cross-stitch - it’s giving cozy cottagecore meets wholesome grandma vibes. 🧵🍒
2️⃣ Homemade Cherry Jam
Use frozen or preserved Northwest cherries and gift in mini jars with a cute handwritten label - bonus points if you tie it with twine and a cinnamon stick.
3️⃣ Cherry-Infused Sugar or Salt
Blend dried cherries with sugar (for baking) or flaky sea salt (for cocktails and snacks). It’s colorful, sweet, and totally unexpected.
4️⃣ Cherry Scented Candle
Grab a candle-making kit and add cherry fragrance oil - or melt and re-pour an old candle into a new jar with a fresh label.
5️⃣ “Cherry on Top” Gift Basket
Fill a basket with cherry treats - chocolate-covered cherries, jam, preserves, dried cherries, and a mini recipe card for cherry scones. 🧺✨
These gifts are thoughtful, budget-friendly, and guaranteed to make anyone smile (especially if that someone is… you 😉)