Description
Made with only three ingredients, these sugared cranberries are so festive for the holiday season. Garnish your cheese boards with them; decorate your tables with them; wrap them up in jars and gift them to your friends. So easy, so pretty!
Adapted from these two recipes: Sally’s Baking Addiction and Natasha’s Kitchen
The changes I’ve made to the process include:
- making a slightly thicker/more concentrated sugar syrup by using a higher ratio of sugar to water as opposed to equal parts
- using less sugar for the final sprinkling
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup + 1/3 cup sugar + more as needed
- 1/4 cup water
- 12-ounce bag of fresh cranberries
Instructions
- In a small saucepan, combine the 1/2 cup sugar with 1/4 cup water. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat, and stir with a spatula carefully until the sugar dissolves. Remove from the heat.
- Place the cranberries in a large bowl. Pour the hot sugar syrup over the cranberries and stir with a spatula until the berries are coated in the syrup. Transfer the sugar-coated cranberries to a rack set in a sheet pan (or to a parchment-lined sheet pan) to drain for 1 hour.
- Transfer the berries to large clean bowl and sprinkle with the remaining 1/3 cup sugar. Toss with your hands until the berries are evenly coated, using more sugar if needed.
- Transfer the berries to storage jars and store at room temperature for four to five days.
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: 5 minutes
- Category: garnish
- Method: stovetop
- Cuisine: American