The Partiologist: Cherry Season!

Cherry Season!

I have declared today "Official Cherry Picking Day"...at least on my blog.  Google has been unable to confirm the day, so I decided to go with today.  With my cherry creations you really can celebrate Cherry Season all year long.  It all started a couple weeks ago when my daughter needed a little something for a friend's birthday. 

Then, one Cherry led to another. 
 

This is what started the Cherry madness~
Using red and green fondant with a mold, I made some cherries to put on square scalloped sugar cookies.  Keeping it simple, I went with a black and white background.  Then I remembered that I had a cherry cookie cutter too.  So on with more cookies~
And....I even took a few photos to show you how!
Bake your cherries.
Frost with basket weave tip.
Cut cherries out of fondant (Measure your cookie) with round metal cutter.
Using a smaller cutter, press a small curve in the cookie.
Make the fondant stem with a clay gun.
Measure and put on the cookie.
Add leaves.
Sprinkle with sanding sugar and add bow.

Okay, I may have left out a few photos.  Sorry.

Now here's where I should have stopped.  Well, they were a bit time consuming, but I like them.  And you will too.
Cherry Cake Balls!
I used some plastic stems from plastic cherries.  Pulled them out of the plastic and stuck them into the cake balls. 
I used both single stems and double stems.  After placing all the stems in the cake balls, put them in the freezer before dipping into red candy melts.  Before the candy melts harden, add red sanding sugar to the cake balls.

All ready to go~
Life is Like a Plate Of Cherries!
But I didn't stop there.  No I Didn't.  I remembered I had some long stemmed maraschino cherries. Why not dip those?
And sprinkled the tops with red non pareils and placed in black paper cups.
And I think Cherry Cupcakes would be great too!
Simple enough to make and eat too.
So simple I had time to take a few photos!
Emphasis on the word FEW!
Last I made some cherry suckers.  Without the stick...yea, so I guess you could call them cherry disks.
My Cherry Tree~
I've always been a sucker for cherries.
And gummy candy. 
After finding the bag of cherry gummies (lost the photo) I decided to do an experiment.  And it worked, sort of.  If I had to do it over again, I would have left the sucker clear so the gummy cherries would have shown up better.  Here's a little step by step~
Used Wilton Cherry Candy Flavor.
Sprayed Whoopee Pie Pan with Pam.
Placed Cherries in each cavity.
Made the candy according to directions on bottle.
Poured the piping hot candy over the cherries and HOPED they didn't melt!
Then I punched red round circles and glued to green ribbon.
Packaged them up!
Now don't you think it's time for you to go pick a few cherries?  I could go on and on, only I need to make time for Strawberry Season!  CHERRIES...they're always in season!

The Cherry On Top!
 

17 comments :

  1. These seriously could not be any prettier.

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  2. Wow, that is a lot of gorgeous cherry ideas, I love them all!

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  3. Your cherry collection is incredible. Everything looks amazing. I especially love how you used the cherry gummies in the hard candy disks. So clever!

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  4. You are so creative! My favorite is the sugar cookie with the stripes.

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  5. Oh my word, so adorable! I LOVE the red, black, and white!!!

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  6. Cherries are my one true obsession! I love anything with a cherry print and I am loving this post. The cookies are so cute I seriously almost died.

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  7. So Cherry!!!! I love all the ideas!!!!

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  8. You are so creative! These are just fabulous!

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  9. Oh my God! you are amazing! Always I enjoy your creations.

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  10. Those are the cutest cherries ever! I want to sample all!!!!

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  11. Sorry to say Strawberry season has passed, but shhh, I won't tell anyone if you won't :) I love all the cherry goodness and your pictures are amazing. I really need to learn how to make mine POP more like yours and look all professional. Love your blog, as always :)

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  12. I'm not a cherry eater, but I would definitely eat your cherry treats! They are all so cute, especially the cookies and cake balls:)

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  13. I love all of these, but the striped cherry cookies are my favorite! So adorable!

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