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Gateau basque---some of them use cherry preserves but instead of this you just cook down the sour cherries with some sugar on top of the stove till the make a syrup of your desired sweetness and use that along with the pastry cream to make your filling. Awesome. The frozen yogurt in the perfect scoop is also really nice.

Martha Stewart has a recipe for Sour Cherry Savarins which looks great (however, the recipe needs special savarin forms, so...)
http://www.marthastewart.com/recipe/sour-cherry-savarins

Personally, I think clafouti is the best way to use a cherry. I've experimented with many clafouti recipes, and the one I have settled on is the one from Guy Savoy's Parisian restaurant, via Ms Glaze's Pomme d'Amour (great food blog by the way):

http://msglaze.typepad.com/paris/2006/06/cherry_clafouti.html

I like to make sour cherry rice (albaloo polo), a fabulous Persian dish that is a great accompaniment to dinner.

@ews,

I happen to have a bowl of that very dish waiting for my dinner tonight!

It appears to have a braised chicken thigh with it.

I directed someone that I work with (who is Persian) to the farmer's market and in return received this food with some of the sour cherries they purchased.

I could see a homemade sour cherry ice cream being quite delicious. Especially drizzled with chocolate sauce.

I have made two batches of the sour cherry frozen yogurt from David Lebovitz's The Perfect Scoop book, and highly recommend.

Cherry tart with mixture of sweet & sour cherries. Yum!

I like to make a fool - stewed fruit with whipped cream. I stew the cherries with a little sugar and some tapioca or arrowroot and then fold in whipped cream when the cherries are cool.

I made a sour cherry syrup from Gourmet magazine last year. It ended up being great mixed with sparkling water or over vanilla ice cream: http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/SOUR-CHERRY-SYRUP-238965

my absolutely favorite sour cherry recipe is the following sour cherry frangipane tart:
http://cafefernando.com/sour-cherry-frangipane-tart
the frangipane contains ground almonds which pair perfectly with sour cherries and give the tart a great almond flavor...yummy! i've baked this tart twice in the last two weeks - can't get enough of it!

I just made that Bon Appetit sour cherry lattice pie with my greenmarket cherries two weekends ago... it's completely worth it if it's not be too hot to turn your oven on!