Chocolate Shortbread Cookies with Cherry Filling
Chukar’s Sour Cherry Dessert Sauce is a sweet and tangy jar of pourable Northwest Cherries that bejewels the center of chocolate shortbread cookies. The beauty of shortbread is simplicity. The most basic recipe calls for butter, sugar, and flour. Some add a dash of vanilla extract or additional flavoring (lemon? hazelnut?), but shortbread by and [...]
Dark Chocolate-Cherry Ganache Tart
Chocolate as comfort food? Chocolate as dessert? Chocolate as….a hobby? Ma Chukar does not just dabble in chocolate. She plunges. Last fall she had the opportunity to go to a 3-day chocolate workshop sponsored by Guittard Chocolate in Los Angeles. The course, taught by pastry chef Andrew Shotts, included the ins-and-outs of truffles, chocolate bars, [...]
Cherry Chunk Cookies
Make oatmeal chocolate cookies deluxe by tossing in a handful of Chukar’s dried Columbia River Tart Cherries. Recommended ProductsColumbia River Tart CherriesColumbia River Tarts are slightly sweetened making them an excellent baking cherry. Use in lieu of raisins and dried cranberries in favorite recipes.
Chocolate Cherry Brandy Cupcakes
Making cupcakes gives us the opportunity to splurge. Go deliciously overboard. Get a little goofy. Hence, Chukar’s new recipe for double chocolate, double cherry, double brandy cupcakes. Double Chocolate Velvety cocoa buttercream frosting tops moist chocolate cake. We used Duncan Hines® Devil’s Food cake mix, but if you have your own recipe, kudos to you! [...]
Creative Tips for Using Dried Berries in your Kitchen
Beautiful berries grow on the ”wet” side of Washington. So while our beloved cherry orchards thrive in eastern Washington soils, it is the coastal region we have to thank for our Skagit Valley Strawberries, Puget Sound Blueberries, and North Cove Cranberries. Like dried cherries, dried berries fare well in baked goods. But there are a number of other [...]
Cranberry Orange Butter
Did you know that Chukar’s logo way-back-when was, ”The Year ‘Round Cherry and Berry Company”? Admittedly, cherries have stolen the spotlight in more recent years, but we still love our naturally dried Northwest berries, and we are always looking for new ways to use them. Hence, Berry Butter. This dried berry and butter spread is [...]
