** Percentage Daily Values are based on a
2000 calorie diet. *Nutritional Data from USDA SR21 Database. Nutritional information is estimated and may vary.
Chocolate Covered Candied Cherries
Date Added:December 07, 2009
Ingredients:
50 Unit Candied Cherries
3/4 Cup Cherry Brandy
1/2 Pound Milk Chocolate broken into pieces
1/4 Pound Unsweetened Chocolate broken into pieces
1. Soak the cherries in the brandy overnight or longer.
2. Drain cherries, reserve the brandy. Cream butter and sugar with a mixer.
3. In a double boiler, melt the chocolates. Spoon the melted chocolate, spoon by spoon, into the butter and sugar mixture and mix thoroughly by hand.
4. Add reserved brandy to sugar and chocolate mixture and stir in my hand until all is absorbed.
5. Add 3T cocoa and mix by hand. Put mixture in a clean bowl and thoroughly chill in the freezer.
6. Meanwhile, make a 50-50 mixture of powdered sugar and cocoa.
7. Begin with 1/3 c. EACH and mix thoroughly. Heavily dust a sheet of waxed paper on a working surface.
8. When the chocolate mixture is chilled and very stiff, remove from the freezer.
9. Drop by teaspoonfuls on dusted working surface and dust your fingers in the sugar/cocoa mixture, press with fingers to make a small flat shape with the chocolate.
10. Drop a cherry in the center and form a ball around the cherry.
11. Working quickly, complete the shape by rolling the ball between your palms.
12. Roll ball in sugar/cocoa mixture to coat. Continue working until the chocolate mixture is too soft to continue.
13. Return to freezer to chill some more and continue until all the chocolate and cherries are gone.
14. The chocolate covered cherries can be stored in the frig.
15. For a lighter, sweeter chocolate taste, increase the sweet chocolate and decrease or eliminate the unsweetened chocolate.
16. The more milk chocolate you use, the more difficult it will be to work with as it melts rather rapidly.
17. You can also substitute and equal portion of semi-sweet bits (toll house chocolates) for the chocolate.
18. Other candied fruit and liquors can be used according to your taste.
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Dietary Notes:
This recipe is low-sodium with 0mg per serving, low-fat with 0g per serving, low-saturated fat with 0g per serving, low-cholesterol with 0mg per serving and low-calorie with 0 per serving
Food Allergy Information:
This recipe contains potential food allergens and will effect people with Cocoa Powder, Cherry, Natural Sweeteners allergies.
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