Chocolate Covered Cherries
From trackwidow 16 years ago
- 5 minutes to make
- Serves 24
These are a great and fun recipe to make. I got the recipe courtesy of Recipe Zaar and tweaked it a bit to my own tastes. I have to give proper credit to Organicmama for steering me in the right direction.
Ingredients
- 2 cups powdered sugar shopping list
- 1/4 cup butter shopping list
- 1/4 cup sweetened condensed milk shopping list
- 1 teaspoon vanilla or 1/2 teaspoon almond extract shopping list
- 1 pinch salt shopping list
- 10 ounce jar of maraschino cherries, drained shopping list
- 12 ounce bag chocolate chips shopping list
How to make it
- Combine the first 5 ingredients until well blended and smooth and place in fridge until firm.
- Meanwhile spread out the drained cherries on a cookie sheet and freeze for at least 1 hours.
- Scoop out about 1-2 teaspoon of filling and form into a ball, flatten it and form around a cherry.
- Place on a wax paper lined cookie sheet and freeze for 1 hr after you have formed them all.
- Melt chocolate and using a small fork dip each cherry placing it on a wax paper or foil lined cookie sheet and chill in fridge until chocolate is solid.
- Remove cherries carefully as not to break them open and lose the center.
- Place in an airtight plastic container and keep in a cool dry place for up to 1 month.
Plate of frozen cherries
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Filling with cherry in the middle
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Plate of cherries encased in the filling
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Dipping the cherries in the chocolate, the fun part!
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All done, ready to chill!
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The Rating
Reviewed by 19 people-
Wonderful! Excellent!
organicmama
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This is really good.I like using condensed milk in dessert recipes..
ahmed1
in Cairo loved it
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Wow, your pictures turned out wonderful...
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