Ideas for cherry "cinnamon rolls"?

Any type of rolled danish pastry recipe should work.  Just use the dried cherries in place of prunes, etc.

I plump them in hot water and use them in sweet breads, quick breads, anything that calls for raisins has dried cherries instead.

are one of my favorite things!

Sylvia

The idea of making a mash of the cherries is very appealing. If you have any almond paste perhaps you could run a 1/4 inch tube of it at the end of the roll put cherry filling on the rest of the dough. (So the almond paste would be in the center of the roll.)

My favorite flavor pairing is chocolate and cherries. What if did your cherry mash spread across the entire dough, dice some dark chocolate, and put that on top of the cherry smear before you roll it up? You could use the small chocolate shards on top if you ice it.

Whatever you do I think something delicious is about to happen in your kitchen.

i love them in oatmeal; also in cookies. my husband sprinkles them on his dry cereal.

no matter how you use them they are fantastic.

enjoy, claudia

Davefs, I was thinking about this flavor idea exchange today. I have a book you might find interesting. It's called The Flavor Bible. It's basically hundreds of pages of food/spice pairings. It lists the ingredient by heat, weight of the flavor. Very great book; kinda like a cook or baker's 133-set Crayola coloring box.

http://www.amazon.com/Flavor-Bible-Essential-Creativity-Imaginative/dp/0316118400

-Arlene