Sour Cherry Vanilla Butter Recipes

SOUR CHERRY BUTTER

Steps:

• Combine the pureed cherries, juice and honey in a slow cooker.
• Cook on high, leaving the lid off, until the butter is thick. Stir occasionally. It should mound on a spoon. The time it takes for this will depend on the water content of the cherries and heat of the slow cooker.
• Alternatively, combine everything in a large stock pot and simmer on the stove, stirring almost constantly until thick. This will likely be faster but the constant stirring to avoid scorching is more hands-on.
• Get water bath canner, jars, lids, and rings ready.
• Pour the cherry mixture into jars leaving 1/2" headspace. Wipe rims. Place lids and rings.
• Process in half pints for 15 minutes (adjusting for elevation).
• Alternatively, freeze the jars.

SOUR CHERRY CRUMB CAKES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter a 9-inch square baking dish, and dust with flour, tapping out excess.
• Make the topping: Stir together butter, flour, sugars, salt, and cinnamon.
• Make the cakes: Whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt in a bowl. With a mixer, cream butter and granulated sugar in another bowl until pale and fluffy. Beat in eggs and vanilla. Working in alternating batches, add flour mixture and buttermilk, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Beat until just combined. Pour into prepared dish, and smooth with an offset spatula. Dot top with cherries, and sprinkle with crumb topping.
• Bake until golden and a tester inserted into center comes out clean, about 1 hour. Let cool before cutting.

SOUR CHERRY VANILLA BUTTER

Steps:

• 1. Start with a large bucket of pitted sour cherries.
• 2. Fill crockpot with cherries and enough water to almost cover cherries. Cook overnight for 8 hours. Leave the lid tipped to let steam out.
• 3. Cooked down cherries the next day. That are ready to be blended.
• 4. Use a hand emersion blender on the cherries. Now, add your sugar, spices and vanilla bean.
• 5. Split your vanilla bean and remove the seeds. Place the seeds and the bean down into the blended cherries.
• 6. Cook for another several hours stirring ever so often till the butter becomes a thick consistency. When ready ladle into hot jars and seal.
• 7. Now, give them a hot water bath for 15 minutes.
• 8. Place on counter and let cool overnight. Next day, check seals and tighten. Place your labels on jars and store.
• 9. June 17th, 2014 --- I must share that I used this sour cherry vanilla butter in this recipe I am posting https://www.justapinch.com/recipes/dessert/cookies/apple-butter-bars.html and it was fabulous! I will be making them again & again. I didn't have any apple butter but remembered my cherry butter so I used it instead. It was a perfect match.