Recipes
Cherry cream cheese cake
Ingredients:
1 8-ounce package cream cheese, softened
2 sticks (8 ounces) unsalted butter, softened
1 ½ cups granulated sugar
1 ½ teaspoons vanilla
4 eggs
2 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
1/8 teaspoon salt
1 cup of pitted fresh or frozen Balaton® tart cherries
¼ cup all-purpose flour
¾ cup chopped pecans
Directions:
Preheat oven to 325° F / 165°C
Cream the cream cheese, butter, sugar, and vanilla until smooth.
Beat in eggs one at a time.
Mix together 2 ¼ cup flour, baking powder, and salt.
Fold flour mixture into cream cheese mixture.
Dredge cherries in ¼ cup flour, fold into batter.
Sprinkle pecans over bottom of a greased/buttered 10-inch angel food tube pan. Bottom should be completely covered with pecans.
Spoon batter into pan on top of nuts.
Bake for about 75 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Allow cake to cool in pan on wire rack. Ease cake out of pan and onto plate.
Cherry Sauce:
¾ cup sugar
4 tablespoons cornstarch
½ cup water
4 cups pitted fresh or frozen tart cherries
¼ to ½ cup of Amaretto, optional
Cook ingredients over medium heat stirring constantly until mixture thickens, about 10 minutes. Remove from heat and stir in Amaretto.
Slow cooker pork roast and cherries
Ingredients
2 teaspoons thyme
1 teaspoon ground pepper
1/2 teaspoon salt
3 pound pork shoulder roast
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 cup apple juice
1 onion, sliced
2 cups pitted cherries
2 tablespoons corn starch
Instructions
In a small bowl, stir together thyme, pepper and salt. Season each side of pork roast with seasoning mixture.
Add oil to slow cooker. Cook on high setting until brown pork roast on all sides.
Switch slow cooker to Slow Cooker setting.
Pour apple juice over pork roast and add onion and cherries.
Cook on LOW for 8-10 hours.
Remove pork roast and set aside. Tent with aluminum foil to retain heat.
Strain onion and cherries from cooking liquid to a bowl and set aside.
Switch cooker to high setting.
Whisk together corn starch and one cup cooking liquid. Whisk into remaining cooking liquid in the slow cooker and bring to a simmer. Cook until thickened.
Serve pork roast over rice or pasta and topped with cherries and onions and sauce
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