Cherries jubilee is a dessert dish made with cherries and liqueur (typically kirschwasser), which are flambéed tableside, and commonly served as a sauce over vanilla ice cream. [1]
The recipe is generally credited to Auguste Escoffier, [2] who prepared the dish for one of Queen Victoria's Jubilee celebrations, widely thought to be the Diamond Jubilee in 1897. [3] [4]
Other flambéed fruit dishes include Bananas Foster, mangos diablo ( mangos flambéed in tequila) and pêches Louis (peaches flamed in whiskey).