Cherry Fool Dessert

Enjoy summer cherries in cream and yogurt! 

Years ago, I saw this simple Blueberry Fool recipe from Nigel Slater’s Ripe featured on Food 52 – I was in the kitchen minutes later making it. It was gone by the next day so of course, I needed to make it again, this time with cherries – my absolute favorite summer fruit and a few of my adaptations.

A “fool” is a traditional English dessert that typically mixes cooked fruit in some type of cream or custard.

And, yes, my recipe calls for heavy cream (though I did lower the amount from the original recipe while upping the amount of Greek yogurt) but sometimes you do have to splurge and in this case, a little bit of lovely, full-on fat cream goes a long way.

It’s a simple dessert that is also elegant at the same time (especially if you get fancy and serve it in wine glasses!) You can use just about any summer fruit you’d like.

If you like this recipe, Serena has another twist on this cherry fool in our upcoming Easy Everyday Mediterranean Cookbook coming out in October 2020 but you can pre-order NOW. She also created a delish Lemon Fool that’s featured in our 30-Minute Mediterranean Diet Cookbook (both links are Amazon affiliate links.)

Cherry Fool Dessert

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Enjoying the last summer cherries in yogurt and cream.

• Author: Deanna Segrave-Daly
• Yield: 6 servings 1x

Ingredients

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• 2 cups sweet cherries, pitted and chopped (about 4 dozen)
• 1 Tablespoon honey
• 1 Tablespoon water
• 1/2 small lemon, juiced
• 1/8 tsp ground ginger
• 1/8 tsp almond extract
• 1 cup non-fat plain Greek yogurt
• 2/3 cup heavy cream, whipped
• handful fresh mint leaves for garnish, optional

Instructions

1. In a small pot over medium-low heat, add cherries, honey, water, lemon juice, ginger and almond extract.
2. Stir and heat for about 10 minutes.
3. Remove from heat and smash with a potato masher. Cool.
4. Combine cherries with yogurt.
5. Fold in whipped cream.
6. Chill in refrigerator for about an hour. Serve with fresh mint leaves, if desired.