Tesco French Glace Cherries

I do love baking and cherries are one my favourite ingredients to throw into the cake or bun mix, particularly for what I call 'fairy loaf' (my own fairy cake mix in a loaf tin - the edges go all crisp and lovely). I often use cherries on their own but also team them up with something like coconut or chocolate chunks to really bring out the flavour. I always quarter them when putting them in a mix so they don't sink to the bottom. In every big supermarket, there is a distinct lack of choice with glace cherries, which tend to be limited to one brand, and I think Tesco is the only place that do their own brand (? correct me if I'm wrong). I'm not sure ...  Read the complete review

Perhaps more people will start baking as we are in the middle of a credit crunch, a plain sponge made into fairy cakes and topped with some icing and a piece of cherry will give parents or grandparents good quality time with the children, and the result although maybe fattening will be appreciated by all with a sweet tooth. A learning process that is fun and cheaper than going out to the cinema or other place of amusement. I always have a tub of cherries in the cupboard because they are so versatile, I chop them and use in scones, cakes, Christmas and birthday rich fruit cake and to decorate biscuits, cakes and trifles. Cherries can be cut really small to ...  Read the complete review

Glace cherries can be the cause of conflict in my humble abode, I love to taste their plump sticky squidgyness in cakes and scones and the Other Half resolutely picks them out, puts them on the side of his tea plate and whinges. (Yes, a male who whinges lol) But in all fairness they are very sweet and certainly not to everyone's taste. Tesco French glace cherries come in a 200g pot and on average they cost 94p. I hazard a guess that these cherries originate from across the Channel thus allowing them to be described as French. Most glace cherries are placed into a clear plastic pot for marketing purposes and these are no different. Maybe the ...  Read the complete review

Tesco French glace cherries. I will soon be buying some glace cherries. I expect I will but tescos as I usually shop there. So what are glace cherries? You mean you mum never gave you one to eat when she was baking a cake. Glace cherries are those red sticky sweet cherries used in baking. Glace cherries are made by heating cherries in a sugar syrup the cherries lose their colour so they are usually coloured with a red colouring. Americans call these fruits candied cherries. The cherry loses a lot of its moisture in this process and gets a leathery texture it's very sweet and has a sugary sweet sticky skin. Cals per100g 1300kJ ...  Read the complete review

Tesco French Glace Cherries, they're what really make a trip to the Tesco's baking isle worth while, them and to but chocolate chips of course. I've loved eating them since I was a little kid although I probably shouldn't eat so many as they contain LOADS of sugar! They're just a fantastic thing to snack on if you have a really sweet tooth. I know there are a lot of people who hate these and in a way they're a bit like marmite people either love them or they hate them but I recommend them. Straight out of the pot they're fantastic and my husband and I can happily eat our way through an entire pot in just a few minutes but they are evehn better when ...  Read the complete review