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Cherries Jubilee with Vanilla Ice Cream is an easy, sophisticated dessert sure to dazzle any enjoying it. Liqueur-soaked cherries are flambeed with brandy, making a sweet boozy sauce to top ice cream.

Cherries Jubilee in glass goblets with vanilla ice cream

Published originally in February 2017; updated July 2018

Being in the heart of fresh cherry season, an easy, exciting dessert seemed fun! Cherries Jubilee with Vanilla Ice Cream is a classic dessert that is simple to make and flames leaping from a skillet (when happening on purpose) is always an attention-getter that makes a dinner fantastically special.

Cherries Jubilee with Vanilla Ice Cream. Liqueur-soaked cherries flambéed with brandy and served over ice cream. Easy to make and sure to impress! Gluten-free. - BoulderLocavore.com

Cherries Jubilee feels like a bit of a flashback dessert. It keeps good company with Grasshopper Pie, The Zombie cocktail and Devils on Horseback appetizer. All are tried and true recipes from a different era that have made the cut of time. Cherries Jubilee with Vanilla Ice Cream is same.

Cherries Jubilee with Vanilla Ice Cream. Liqueur-soaked cherries flambéed with brandy and served over ice cream. Easy to make and sure to impress! Gluten-free. - BoulderLocavore.com

What Is Cherries Jubilee?

The dessert was originally created for the Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee (the 60th anniversary of her becoming queen) in 1897. The dessert is made by combining cherries and liqueur then flambéing them while cooking is a sweet syrup.

Typically, the cooked cherries are served over vanilla ice cream as I have done today though they may be used on other things such as cakes or crepes too.

Cherries Jubilee with Vanilla Ice Cream. Liqueur-soaked cherries flambéed with brandy and served over ice cream. Easy to make and sure to impress! Gluten-free. - BoulderLocavore.com

Cherries Jubilee falls into a family of flambéed desserts that make for great presentation and are actually very easy to make. Two other desserts in this esteemed collection I’ve shared with you in the past, Classic Bananas Foster (bananas in a buttery sugar sauce with rum) and Mangoes Diablo (mangoes flambéed with tequila).

I’m excited to try Rum Flambeed Figs and Bananas and Flambeed Nectarines and Cherries too.

Cherries Jubilee with Vanilla Ice Cream. Liqueur-soaked cherries flambéed with brandy and served over ice cream. Easy to make and sure to impress! Gluten-free. - BoulderLocavore.com

How to Flambé Cherries Jubilee Safely

The key when flambéeing (pronounced flam-bay-ing) is to have an uncluttered space and a long utensil to light the dessert (like a utility lighter, which I use for so many things). The flames can reach fairly high and are blue or somewhat invisible making it key to stay out of the way of the skillet until the flame dies down.

Flambéeing a recipe does remove some of the alcohol but not all of it so this is a dessert for adults!

Cherries Jubilee with Vanilla Ice Cream. Liqueur-soaked cherries flambéed with brandy and served over ice cream. Easy to make and sure to impress! Gluten-free. - BoulderLocavore.com

Use Fresh or Frozen Cherries for Cherries Jubilee

With international food logistics delivering foods from all over the world regardless of the season where one lives, fresh sweet cherries are available now. I used a variety from New Zealand that were delicious.

If fresh cherries are not available to you, frozen thawed cherries will work as well. Reserve any juices from thawing and include them when adding the Kirsch-soaked cherries to the skillet.

Cherries Jubilee with Vanilla Ice Cream. Liqueur-soaked cherries flambéed with brandy and served over ice cream. Easy to make and sure to impress! Gluten-free. - BoulderLocavore.com

This Cherries Jubilee with Vanilla Ice Cream recipe is exotic and sophisticated, as well as classic and very simple to make! Liqueur-soaked cherries are flambeed with brandy making a sweet sauce perfect to top vanilla ice cream. 

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Cherries Jubilee with Vanilla Ice Cream. Liqueur-soaked cherries flambéed with rum and served over ice cream. Easy to make and sure to impress! Gluten-free. - BoulderLocavore.com
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Cherries Jubilee Recipe with Vanilla Ice Cream

Cherries Jubilee is a classic flambeed dessert making a wonderful boozy cherry sauce to top vanilla ice cream or other desserts. The cherries soak in liqueur for an hour then are turned into a sweet sauce and flambeed in the process. It's a sight to behold and makes any meal extra special.
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Keyword cherries jubilee, flambeed cherries
Prep Time 1 hour 10 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 20 minutes
Servings 4
Calories 538 kcal
Author Toni Dash

Ingredients

  • 1 pound fresh Sweet Cherries , destemmed and pitted (frozen, thawed sweet cherries may be substituted)
  • ¼ cup Kirshwasser (cherry liqueur)
  • ½ cup Granulated Sugar
  • 2 tablespoons Lemon Juice
  • ½ cup Brandy
  • 1 pint Vanilla Ice Cream

Instructions

  1. Combine the pitted cherries and Kirsch in a sealed container and allow to sit for an hour, turning the container periodically to douse the cherries.
  2. Add the contents to a large, heavy skillet. Sprinkle on the sugar and lemon juice and bring to a boil over medium-high heat, stirring to dissolve the sugar. Allow to cook for 5 minutes.
  3. Carefully pour the brandy into the skillet and light the liquid toward the outside of the pan (by an edge) with a fireplace match or utility lighter
  4. (something long). The skillet will flambé however the fire may be almost invisible. Allow the fire to burn out; 2-3 minutes.
  5. Scoop ice vanilla ice cream into 4 bowls and top with the cherries jubilee. Serve immediately.

Recipe Notes

Adatped from The Joy of Cooking.

Nutrition Facts
Cherries Jubilee Recipe with Vanilla Ice Cream
Amount Per Serving
Calories 538 Calories from Fat 117
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 13g 20%
Saturated Fat 8g 40%
Cholesterol 52mg 17%
Sodium 95mg 4%
Potassium 487mg 14%
Total Carbohydrates 77g 26%
Dietary Fiber 3g 12%
Sugars 70g
Protein 5g 10%
Vitamin A 11.4%
Vitamin C 14%
Calcium 16.6%
Iron 2.9%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
Cherries Jubilee is an easy, elegant recipe perfect to make any occaision special. Flambeed cherries in liqueur on vanilla ice cream. Step by step instructions that are simple and fast! #dessert #cherries #flambe #jubilee #easyrecipe #partyrecipe #glutenfree
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    • Good idea! With all the yucky winter weather we’ve been having here lately, a night in cuddling with this sounds awesome.

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  5. This sounds like it would be great after a nice dinner out. Come home and ask my hubby to make it for me, or better yet he could surprise me.

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  8. I have never flambéed a thing in my life, but this looks like the perfect recipe to start with! Let’s hope I don’t set my hair on fire in the process 😉

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  10. I have never had cherries jubilee but I have seen recipes before. I need to try this recipe and finally try them out.

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  23. I am so excited to try this recipe. I have everything I need to try it for dessert tonight. I am sure it will be a hit.

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  32. OMG Toni – even though I live with a curmudgeon who swears he doesn’t like dessert, I’m going to have to try this one. It sounds Divine!

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    • Girls lighting dessert on fire is definitely a great way to get a dessert-doubter to take note 😉. I can’t imagine not living this. And if not? More for you lol.

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  33. What a yummy dessert!! We are up in New Hampshire this week and I am going to get the stuff to make this today! The family will love it.

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  35. Cherries jubilee is such a tasty topping for almost anything! I tried making a batch of it once, and I ended up putting on ice cream, pancakes, pound cake, and once, I just ate it on its own. LOL

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  39. Wow! You always make the absolute best recipes. This looks absolutely incredible. I would love to give this a try!

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  40. It looks so good and amazing! It’s the kind of dessert that you’d love making all the time especially when you’re hosting a dinner party at home. I really appreciate the recipe!

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  45. I would love to make this for my husband for a “just because” treat. He’d love this, and I am sure he will tell his friends how good a cook I am. Hahaha.

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  46. I wish my kids loved cherries jubilee the way I do! Fantastic recipe and I may have to make this for our date night dessert

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