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Sweet Ideas For Fresh Cherries & Strawberries

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Collage of cherry and strawberry recipes like cake and fruit salad.

Before your fresh cherries and strawberries get all eaten up, use them in these sweet and delicious recipes! Trifles, cookies, cakes, and more.

It's a wonderful time when fresh fruit season begins!

Here in Vermont we eagerly await the appearance of roadside signs at local strawberry fields, welcoming folks to come on in and load up flats with hand-picked berries.

This icebox cake houses a favorite combination: strawberries and cream.
Strawberries & Cream Icebox Cake

And it's the time of year for fresh cherries, too. For a brief time garnet cherries overflow in the grocery produce bins. Even our own two little cherry trees in the front yard get a decent blush of fruit, and we have to rush to pick them before the birds swoop in.

Cherry Chocolate Coffee Cake

Go ahead and eat these fresh cherries and strawberries as soon as they come in the house, but be sure to set some aside for delicious, fresh fruit recipes! Like a cherry-filled Coffee Cake, or a pretty Triple Berry Trifle. Enjoy the classic combination of strawberries and cream in this no-bake Icebox Cake.

Find Cherry and Strawberry Recipes below!

Sugared Chocolate Covered Cherries
So simple, and yet such a delicious treat! Fresh cherries dipped in chocolate with a little sparkle from a sprinkle of sugar.
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Small white pedestal holding plain and chocolaty cherries.
Cherries, Blueberries & Stars Tart
A summery fruit tart with a sweet filling of cherries and blueberries! This tart is festive too thanks to red, white and blue stars over the top - perfect for the 4th of July or anytime.
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Strawberries & Cream Icebox Cake
This is a beautifully sweet and fruity icebox cake, full of fresh strawberries and rich cream. And best of all, it's a no-bake dessert!
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Fork and white plate holding a slice of strawberries and cream icebox cake.
Cherry Chocolate Coffee Cake
A tender coffee cake loaded with chocolate and cherry flavor! So decadent, and always the most popular treat on the table. 
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Triple Berry Mason Jar Trifle
Loaded with fresh fruit, layers of sweetened cream and tender shortcake, this pretty little mason jar trifle is a great dessert to make with the family.
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White wood surface with berries and a mason jar with layered cream and fruit
Nectarine and Cherry Trifles
This a beautiful and easy dessert, and perfect to celebrate the fresh fruits of summer! Nectarine and cherries layered with cream in a cute mason jar. 
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Three glass jars holding layered fruit and cream
Blueberry, Strawberry & Cantaloupe Fruit Salad with Sweet Peach Cream
This is an easy fruit salad with three kinds of fruit plus a creamy dessert sauce featuring fresh peach, yogurt and cream cheese!
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Cherry Hand Pies
Remember those little packaged, hand-held cherry pies that were so darn good when we were little? Here is a hand-made version that's even better!
All the sweet goodness of a cherry pie in your hand!
Shiny New Year Chocolate-Covered Strawberries
Classic and elegant chocolate-covered strawberries get a little bling! The sparkle and shine over the surface make these perfect for ringing in the New Year!
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The classic, elegant dessert chocolate covered strawberries get a little bling! The sparkle and shine make these perfect for ringing in the new year!

Enjoy these treats, and happy cherrying and berrying!

Post updated 5/2020.

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  1. The Armchair Squid

    There have been a lot of fruit salads at our house recently. Social distancing has its perks.

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    • Nancy Mock

      That is definitely a perk! I've picked up a lot of strawberries lately, even though local ones aren't out yet. Just can't resist!

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  2. armchairsquid

    The ladies in my house made an amazing pink lemonade with fresh strawberries and raspberries. My wife also made clafoutis with cherries. Fun weekend!

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    • Nancy Mock

      I saw that she made clafoutis. That lemonade sounds so good! I don't think I have had pink lemonade made that way before.

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      • The Armchair Squid

        I may encourage a re-creation of the lemonade for an upcoming gathering... The kids need to have something fun to drink, too, right?

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        • Nancy Mock

          Oh, they'd love it!

  3. njmagas

    That cherry coffee cake looks amazing! I'm so happy cherries are in season again. At $2/lb I'm picking up another bag every week. Strawberries are still a bit on the expensive side, however. I'm going to have to raid a friend's garden for those.

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    • Nancy Mock

      I know, fruit can get so pricey. Sometimes I can catch a good sale and pick up a bunch. Perhaps you could trade some cherries to your friend for her strawberries! 🙂

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