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The use of glace cherries and candied fruits for cocktails and confectionery is a classic. Glace cherries are a timeles ingredient in pastries and cocktails, suggesting a mix of tradition and modernity pleasent for the eye and the palate.
In this article, we are going to make a review to all those times we have seen candied fruits on a screen, whether films or series, and you will be amazed by the great deal of recipes including glace cherries and Maraschino cherries that plays a star role.
The goal is to offer you inspiration to create a new menu with desserts and cocktails as seen in movies. Are you ready? Action!
The Soprano‘s cannoli
The Mafia has a preference for cannoli, the typical Sicilian cake. They had a starring role in The Godfather (1972) and then in The Sopranos (1999-2007): Loyalty to the cannoli is the only steady thing in Tony Soprano’s life…
Ingredients: these rolls made of fried flour dough are filled with ricotta cheese, icing sugar, nuts and candied fruits.
Marie Antoniette‘s classic French pastries
The biopic of the last queen consort of France Maria Antoinette (2005) by Sofia Coppola is a colourful film narrating the life of excess and opulence in Paris of the 14 year-old girl called to get married with the heir to the French throne Louis XVI.
Curious fact: cakes for the film were all made with candied fruits by the Parisian pastry shop Ladurée.
Cocktails with a glace cherry: series and films to see them
Mad Men style Old Fashioned cocktail
Don Draper’s drink of choice is Old Fashioned. This cocktail is the spirit he orders in the first scene of Mad Men first season. The favourite cocktail of the main character is a classic one, named that way after the kind of glass used for it. It cannot lack of a glace cherry, of course…
Preparation: mix 2 shots of bitter (Angostura), some soda water, half teaspoon of sugar, bourbon, one glace cherry, orange peel and a lemon slice.
Sex in New York Cosmopolitan cocktails
A long time has passed since the launch of Sex in New York (1998-2004), with Jessica Parker as the main actress playing the role of Carrie Bradshaw. The series is full of iconic elements, as the Manolos shoes, the Vogue magazine and the Cosmopolitan cocktails… Yes! Those pink ones with a lime slice and a glace cherry inside…
Ingredients: 1 shot of Cointreau, 15 ml of vodka, natural lemon juice and 1 teaspoon of sugar. Shake and serve with a lime slice and/or glace cherries.
Ralph Fiennes cocktail in The Grand Budapest Hotel
In the awarded film The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), Gustave, the main character, comes out ‘socializing’ in the hotel hall holding a cocktail one can imagine delicious… Well, for that reason some bartenders invented a recipe for the beverage…
Preparation: mix 25 ml of brandy, 12,5 ml of orange liquor, a shot of Maraschino syrup and champagne. Then drop a tasty piece of Lazaya’s Maraschino cherries inside.
Tom Collins cocktails in Meet the Fockers
Curious fact: it takes its name from an old New Yorker joke about someone (Tom Collins) supposedly spreading negative information about the other person…
Aqua Velva, the blue cocktail in Zodiac
This cocktail, appearing in the film Zodiac (2007), by David Fincher, amazes you with its blue colour. Prepaire it mixing the same quantities of vodka and gin, add a shot of Blue Curaçao and then mix with a soft drink containing lime-lemon such as 7Up or Sprite. This liquor is made with the orange trees the Spanish planted in the Netherlands Antilles; they gave up the plantations when realizing that the oranges grew bitter in the Caribbean area. Someone started using the aromatic peel to distil the alcoholic spirit.
Curious fact: Aqua Velva was a common aftershave used in the past century. It is said that soldiers drank it n the Second World War because of its high alcohol content and relative good taste. It served as inspiration for the blue cocktail.
Getting attracted by the cakes and coctails garnished with a glace cherry…?
If so, you can boost the menu of your restaurant or hotel with some tasty desserts and blockbuster blended drinks just by gasnishing them with the distinguishing mark of candied fruits. In Lazaya, we have been producing our delicious products for some generations: we are experts in preserved fruit and candied fruits since 1940. In addition to our varieties in stock, we can serve you custom-made products. Contact our preserved fruit company. We listen to you.
