148 fruit py recipes

Chilled cherry soup with white wine, sour cream, cinnamon, and optional brandy. A silky, sweet-tart Hungarian-style cold soup made from fresh cherries.

Mango blossoms made by scoring ripe mango halves into cubes and flipping the skin inside out. A stunning two-ingredient fruit presentation ready in 10 minutes.

Traditional German Rumtopf: a layered preserve of summer fruits, sugar, and rum that builds up over the season and matures into a boozy Christmas dessert by winter.

Chewy oatmeal cookies packed with dates, apples, raisins, and pecans, naturally sweetened by simmered fruit. These keep for days in the fridge and make grab-and-go snacks.

A classic British summer pudding inspired by Marguerite Patten, layering stewed fruit and cranberry sauce between slices of white bread. Chilled overnight and served with cream or custard.

Frozen summer fruit punch made by freezing pineapple, orange, and banana juice into a slush, then topping with strawberries and lemon-lime soda. Crowd-sized recipe serves 30.

Summer pandowdy layers juicy nectarines and blueberries under a cream biscuit crust, then dowdies the top by pressing it into the bubbling fruit. Old-fashioned New England dessert.

Sweet yeast dough studded with candied fruit, almonds, and anise gets braided into a ring with dyed eggs nestled in the twists for a stunning Italian Easter centerpiece bread.

Greek potato salad with Kalamata olives, capers, quick-pickled onions, and fruity olive oil. A Mediterranean twist on potato salad without mayo.

Chinese-style pineapple lemon chicken with a crispy sesame breading and a glossy pineapple-lemon sauce brightened by fresh ginger. A better-than-takeout deep-fried chicken recipe finished with a blended fruit sauce.

The colors the fruits used in the cookies suggest those of the robes worn by the four ordres mendiants, monastic orders that originally lived on charity -- the Augustinians, Carmelites, Dominicans and Franciscans.

Sugarless slice-and-bake cookies made with whole wheat flour, chewy dates, toasted coconut, fresh orange zest, and crunchy pecans. Naturally sweetened by fruit alone, these make 5 dozen crisp, nutty rounds.

Vegan whole wheat zucchini banana bread sweetened only with banana, raisins, and grape juice concentrate. No added sugar, no oil, no eggs in this moist quick bread powered by fruit and cinnamon.

A faux quark spread made by blending yogurt and sour cream with sugar, vanilla, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Tangy German-style breakfast cream stand-in for fruit, toast, or pancakes in five minutes.

This is my favorite way of making them, by mixing all kind of dry fruit, seeds, oats with peanut butter and honey. It can be a quick snack, delicious dessert, or even a present in a jar!

This simple fruit salad works at the start of the meal or as a dessert. The fruit is lightly glazed with either a simple syrup or agave syrup. Ginger, a bit of lemon, and some savory thyme which pairs amazingly with summer fruits accents the tartness of the berries and the sweetness of the stone fruit.