Cherry cake for tea (Tesco French Glace Cherries)

Member Name: mumsymary

Product:	Tesco French Glace Cherries
Date:	23/09/08 (606 review reads)
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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 (310kcal)

I have had Tesco glace cherries before and found them good. You can buy Tesco French glace cherries in 100 and 200 gram clear plastic pots with cherry red labels . You can also buy natural colour glace cherries. This implies that the French glace cherries are not a natural colour; yes looking on the web site I see that the colour is Erythrosine. I guess that's why glace cherries are that bright red.
The price of Tesco glace cherries is 55p for 100g, 99p for 200. Glace cherries have quite a long date on them when you buy them they store well.

Why will I be buying glace cherries well its nearly Christmas and I shall need glace cherries for making my Christmas cake , my Christmas pudding, I shall also use glace cherries to decorate my trifle.
I might make some cherry cakes, or add some to my flapjacks. Glace cherries can be used in many baking recipies.

When you use glace /candied cherries for baking wash and dry them first to get the sticky sugar from their surface , then put them in a little flour before adding to you cake mix . This will help stop them sinking to the bottom of your cake.

IF you want a cherry cake recipie go on line good one at tp://deliaonline.com/recipes/old-fashioned-cherry- cake,1791,RC.html
Also at http://www.recipezaar.com/90069
Most cookery books will have a cherry cake recipe I know mt good housekeeping book has a good one

Summary: Cherries for baking