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Chocolate Covered Cherries

Source of Recipe

Dining with Pioneers


List of Ingredients

2 pound powdered sugar
1 can sweetened condensed milk
½ cup butter or margarine
2-3 jars maraschino cherries with stems

CHOCOLATE COATING

12 oz. chocolate chips
½ bar parafin
1 T oil
1 tsp vanilla


Recipe

Let cherries drain on paper towels for 15 minutes. Place on cookie sheet and freeze in freezer. When cherries are frozen (leave in freezer and only remove a few at a time), mix sugar, milk and butter. Refrigerate fondant until firm.
Shape into 1 inch balls, flatten to about the size of a half-dollar. Place frozen cherry in center and wrap mixture completely around. Repeat; chill cherries overnight. The secret to this recipe is to be sure the fruit and cream mixture is frozen when working with it.

COATING

Melt chocolate chips and parrafin in double boiler. Add oil and vanilla. Dip cherries by holding stem into chocolate. Place on extra sheet of wax paper for about 1 second so chocolate will not spread. Place on second sheet of wax paper and let cool.w

Note. Melt paraffin first, then add chocolate chips.

Double the coating ingredients .