From Better Homes and Gardens

This over-the-top dessert consists of cooked cherries and lavender buds spooned over crusty bread. Garnish with lavender blossoms before serving.

Soaked Cherries with Lavender

From Pepperidge Farm Puff Pastry

It's easy to impress your guests with this elegant appetizer that features creamy Brie cheese topped with an unexpected combination of sweet and savory ingredients, all wrapped up in flaky puff pastry.

Dried Cherries, Pecans and Rosemary Brie en Croute

From Better Homes and Gardens

Full of dried cherries and golden raisins, the finishing touch to this quick bread recipe is a luscious lemon glaze.

Cherry and Golden Raisin Bread

From Pepperidge Farm Puff Pastry

Hard to pronounce, but really easy to enjoy, this luscious dessert features layers of puff pastry filled with chocolate pastry cream and brandied cherries. They're truly exquisite!

Chocolate Bavarois with Grillotes Cherries

From Better Homes and Gardens

The magical combination of cherries and toasted almonds add a fruity, crunchy element to this three-ingredient cookie recipe.

Cherry-Almond Chews

From Better Homes and Gardens

This tender fruit-filled pastry recipe, from Eastern Europe Jewish communities, is as popular in America as it is across the ocean. For the cookie filling, use all cherries, all apricots, or a combination of the fruits.

Cherry-Nut Rugelach

From Food & Wine

"I top fresh ricotta with cherries that I've picked in the spring and frozen. The cherries absorb the natural sweetness of the port," explains pastry chef Gale Gand of Tru in Chicago about one of her favorite three-ingredient desserts.

Port-Mulled Cherries with Ricotta

From Better Homes and Gardens

This dessert comes together quickly thanks to frozen cherries and pie filling.

Sweet Glazed Cherry Pie

From Better Homes and Gardens

A pecan mixture gives this luscious, cherry-filled dessert recipe an added crunch. The polenta topping mixes together quickly for a delicious crust.

Polenta-Cherry Cobbler

From Better Homes and Gardens

This hot dessert features popular tastes of the South--pecans, corn bread, and fresh fruit.

Cherry Cobbler with Corn Bread Topping

From Better Homes and Gardens

This dessert's lattice design conceals a delicious cherry preserve filling. A sprinkling of sliced almonds adds a slight crunch to this recipe.

Cherry Almond Tart

From Food & Wine

Sugary desserts often overwhelm dry reds like Bordeaux, but this dish is so subtly sweet it almost doubles as a cheese course. The mascarpone's creaminess smooths out the wine's tannins; the compote and shortbread echo its hints of cherry and anise.

Dried Cherry Compote with Shortbread and Mascarpone

From Better Homes and Gardens

Plump dried cherries in brandy or orange juice for this luscious chocolate-glazed cake.

Chocolate Cherry Cake

From Better Homes and Gardens

The steps and time to make this beautifully delicious dessert is worth the taste and compliments received.

White Chocolate Mousse with Cherry Sauce

From Better Homes and Gardens

Sliced almonds, cherry preserves, and rolled oats gives these Christmas bars a chewy, crunchy texture. Use orange preserves to make a Halloween cookie recipe.

Chewy Cherry Almond Bars

From Better Homes and Gardens

Crushed wheat cereal coats these cherry-centered morsels. Bake them up to three months ahead and they will be ready for Christmas entertaining.

Cherry Winks

From Better Homes and Gardens

These cocoa cookies are studded with chunks of white chocolate, dried fruit, and chopped pecans.

White Chocolate Chunk and Cherry Cookies

From Better Homes and Gardens

With brandy-soaked cherries inside, these spectacular desserts are mini versions of the classic Black Forest Torte.

Black Forest Cakes

From Fitness

This five-ingredient dessert recipe has only 11 grams of fat.

Black Forest Banana Split Recipe

From Better Homes and Gardens

For a fast 30-minute dinner, cooked pot roast gets a boost of subtle sweetness with dark sweet cherries. Serve it over mashed potatoes for a comfort food meal.

Skillet Pot Roast with Cherries

From Better Homes and Gardens

This trendy dessert boasts an orange and cherry sauce in addition to the traditional dark chocolate lava.

Molten Chocolate Cakes with Cherry Compote

From Better Homes and Gardens

Serve this delectable, home-style dessert warm from the oven with a scoop of ice cream.

Coconut Cherry Crisp

From Better Homes and Gardens

Dark sweet cherries and a hint of lemon add up to a sensational spread that's well worth the effort.

Sweet Cherry Jam

From Better Homes and Gardens

New England slumps are topped with biscuit dumplings, which flatten or "slump" during cooking. In Cape Cod, a slump may be known as a grunt--presumably the sound the fruit makes as it bubbles on the stove.

Cherry-Plum Slump

From Better Homes and Gardens

Bread? Dessert? Does it matter what you call it when chocolate and cherries co-star in one luscious yeast bread? This is the best antidote for a mid-afternoon slump.

Chocolate Cherry Bread (Bread Machine)