Dessert Recipes : Bing Cherries in Red Wine Sauce

Ingredients :

2 cups dry red wine
1 cup sugar
1 tsp. ground cinnamon
One half tsp. ground cloves
1 Tbsp. grated lemon zest
2 pounds Bing cherries

Combine wine, sugar, cinnamon, cloves and lemon zest in a saucepan and simmer until sugar melts. Place cherries in a baking dish and pour wine sauce over the cherries. Bake for 25 - 30 minutes. Serve over vanilla ice cream, or frozen yogurt. You may use canned cherries if you cannot find fresh. If using canned cherries then just lessen the cooking time by about 10 minutes.

Tips : If you cannot tolerate red wine, use unsweetened grape juice instead. You can also use your favorite sugar substitute.