Chocolate Covered Cherries |
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Prep Time: 30 Minutes Cook Time: 20 Minutes |
Ready In: 50 Minutes Servings: 6 |
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Found this on a recipe board a couple of years ago Ingredients:
60 maraschino cherries, with stems |
3 tablespoons butter or 3 tablespoons margarine |
3 tablespoons corn syrup |
1/4 teaspoon salt |
2 cups sifted powdered sugar |
1 1/2 lbs chocolate, for coating candy |
Directions:
1. Drain cherries well; let stand on paper toweling.
2. Make fondant: Combine butter or margarine, corn syrup and salt; stir in powdered sugar.
3. Knead until smooth.
4. Chill if too soft.
5. Shape a teaspoon of the fondant around each cherry.
6. Place on waxed paper-lined baking sheet; chill.
7. In small heavy saucepan or deep bowl over pan of hot water, melt chocolate coating, stirring constantly.
8. Holding onto stems, dip fondant-covered cherries, one at a time, into melted chocolate.
9. Spoon mixture over cherries to coat.
10. Place on waxed paper-lined baking sheet.
11. Place in refrigerator to harden.
12. Store in covered container in cool place.
13. Let ripen a week or two and fondant will begin to liquefy.
14. Makes 60 chocolate-covered cherries.
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