5 Spring Fruits and What to Make With Them

While tart cherries are only available for a short few weeks in early Summer, Bing, Rainier, and other sweet varieties begin to pop up at markets in late Spring. Choose darker cherries, as they tend to be sweeter.

If there's a fruit that epitomizes the flavor of Spring, it's the strawberry. With a little green "handle," these berries are easy enough to eat on their own, but adding them to salads, cocktails, and desserts just spreads the springtime spirit!

In-season berries and a frozen puff-pastry shell combine to create the easiest strawberry tart you'll ever make!

Photo: Camilla Salem

This stalk that resembles red celery is technically a vegetable. But in 1947, a New York court ruled that since rhubarb is used primarily as a fruit for cooking purposes, it should be classified as such. Most familiar in pies and tarts, try this strikingly tart plant in a savory dish or two.

Strawberry sweetness balances out the tang of rhubarb when the two join forces in a strawberry-rhubarb crumble.

Photo: Nicole Perry