How to make a Cherry Fool

Make of fool of your fruit

This is a super easy, healthy and sweet dessert that you can pull together at the last minute.  A fool is a dessert of smashed fruit and whipped cream, layered in a parfait glass – I love to use decorative jam jars. They are so pretty.  While my instructions are for a Cherry Fool, you can use any fruit, such as raspberries, blue berries, pears, peaches, or plums.  You need whipped cream and fruit — nothing more.

Super Easy Cherry Fool

1 cup Heavy cream

2 tsp organic sugar or 1 tsp. maple syrup

1 tsp. homemade vanilla extract

1 cup of Alcohol infused cherries or 2 cups of raw cherries, pitted and smashed

Decorative jam jars (mason jars) 250ml size

Remove the pits from 2 cups of cherries, if you are using raw cherries.  If you are using alcohol infused cherries leave as is.  Slightly crush the cherries, with a spurtle so that they release some of their juice but remain identifiable.

Whip the heavy cream, with 2 tsp of organic sugar or 1 tsp of maple syrup,  and 1 tsp. of full potency vanilla.

Now put it together. Fill the jars ¼ full of crushed cherries. Add some whipped cream on top of the cherries being careful to fill the gaps between the cherries. Add more cherries on top of the whipped cream, leaving obvious layers. Add more whipped cream to the top of the jar. Top with a single cherry.

Cap with a lid and chill for an hour while you make dinner. These won’t keep long in the fridge but you can make them in the morning for dinner. If you want to make them a day ahead, keep the whip cream and cherries separated until an hour before serving, or the whip cream will lose volume.

You can make a fool of any fruit. It’s a simple and nutritious, light desert and is a notch higher than a simple dish of fruit topped with whipped cream.