Michigan Grand Sparkling Cherry Juice Recipes

Steps:

• Place the pitted cherries in a large mixing bowl. Add the sugar, lime juice and salt. Stir until the cherries are evenly coated. Set aside at room temperature for 1 hour to macerate the cherries.
• Drain the cherry mixture, collecting and reserving all the juice. Thread the macerated cherries amongst 8 cocktail skewers and set aside for garnish.
• Stir together the reserved cherry juice and seltzer in a small pitcher.
• Fill 8 highball glasses with ice cubes. Pour the cherry sparkler over the ice and garnish each glass with a skewer of cherries and a sprig of mint. Serve immediately.

Steps:

• Place the cherries in a saucepan off the stove, pour the sugar over the top and let them sit for 2 hours. Add the water, and stir to mix the cherries, sugar and water together until the sugar dissolves.
• Bring the cherry mixture to a boil, reduce the heat and simmer for 15 minutes. Strain liquid into another pan, pressing cherries with a spoon to extract all the liquid, and discard the cherries. Simmer the liquid over low heat until it is syrupy and coats the back of a spoon. Remove from heat and let cool. Pour syrup in a jar and store in the refrigerator.
• To serve, place 1 to 2 tablespoons of syrup in each glass, fill glasses with chilled sparkling water and stir to mix.

Steps:

• In a large pitcher, stir together the apricot nectar, orange juice, grapefruit juice, and lemon juice.
• Slowly stir in the mineral water.
• Serve juice mixture over ice.
• If desired, garnish with blood orange slices.

Steps:

• Melt butter in saute pan.
• Add cinnamon and cherries.
• Combine some cherry juice with the tsp of cornstarch.
• Add cherry brandy into saute pan.
• Squeeze orange and lemon into mixture.
• Mix in cornstarch mixture to thicken.
• Spoon over vanilla ice cream.

Steps:

• In a blender combine cherry juice, club soda, sweet and sour mix, and one container of cherry sorbet. Blend till smooth. Before serving, scoop remaining sorbet into glasses or punch bowl.