Two popular varieties that you might run into are maraschino and Amarena cherries. Sporting a vastly different taste and color, these two cherries should not be treated as true substitutions for ...

Glacé cherries have an affinity with almonds, lemons, chocolate, butter and richly spiced dried fruits. Almond-flavoured maraschino cherry stones are used to make kirsch and Maraschino liqueur.

With a color that approaches fluorescent, it's hard to believe that maraschino cherries are made from real fruit, and they certainly don't taste like it. But they also don't have the fake cherry ...