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Fake cherries, Bulgarian cookie bites in sour cherry syrup

Fake cherries, Bulgarian cookie bites in sour cherry syrup

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Small, no-bake cookies made from ground biscuits, butter, powdered sugar, hard-boiled egg yolks, walnuts, and blackcurrant syrup, rolled into balls, dippe…

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Recipe from Ted Masters, Biliana.grigorova, adapted by Recette de cuisine · · updated on

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A fun Bulgarian treat: small biscuit balls decorated to look like cherries, with two pine needles for the stems. Perfect for a children’s party or gathering.

Ingredients and directions

  • Prep time40 min
  • Cook time10 min
  • Resting30 min
  • Total1 hr 20 min
  • DifficultyEasy
  • CostBudget
  • Cooking methodno cooking required
  • Estimated cost$7.14 $0.18 / serving Estimated price; varies by store. Converted from euros at the ECB rate of October 15, 2026.
  • Vegetarian

Ingredients

40 people
  • $1.16
  • $0.95
  • $0.70
  • $0.03
  • $0.35
  • $0.04
  • $0.33
  • $2.84
  • $0.74

Prices from US supermarkets for 5 of 9 ingredients; Belgian prices for the rest.

Directions

  1. Whisk the butter with the powdered sugar. Crush the hard-boiled eggs. Grind the biscuits into a fine powder using a coffee grinder or a walnut grinder.
  2. Combine all the ingredients, except the food coloring and granulated sugar, with the sweetened butter. ≈ 4 min
  3. Roll small, cherry-sized marbles and place them in the refrigerator.
  4. Dissolve the red food coloring in a small amount of water, then dip each marble individually into the solution, and finally roll them in granulated sugar.
  5. Place them in pairs on a pine needle, like cherries with their stems. ≈ 3 min

The bill

Fake cherries, Bulgarian cookie bites in sour cherry syrup

  • 125 g of butter$1.16
  • 1 cup of powdered sugar$0.95
  • 2 hard-boiled eggs$0.70
  • 2 tablespoons of milk$0.03
  • 1 cup of grenadine syrup$0.35
  • 1 packet of vanilla sugar$0.04
  • 1 tablespoon of ground walnuts$0.33
  • red food coloring$2.84
  • granulated sugar$0.74

Total$7.14

that's $0.18 per person

Estimated price; varies by store.

Equipment

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Before you start

Ingredients

  • 125 g of butter
  • 1 cup of powdered sugar
  • One package of dry biscuits
  • 2 hard-boiled eggs
  • 2 tablespoons of milk
  • 1 tablespoon of liqueur or brandy
  • 1 cup of grenadine syrup
  • 1 packet of vanilla sugar
  • 1 tablespoon of ground walnuts
  • red food coloring
  • granulated sugar
  • Long, clean pine needles

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