Dads Chocolate Balls with Cherry Centers
Source of Recipe
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List of Ingredients
Dads Chocolate Balls with Cherry Centers
50 Whole candied cherries
3/4 c Cherry brandy
7/8 c Butter, softened
1 1/3 c Powdered sugar
1/2 lb Sweet milk chocolate*
1/4 lb Unsweetened baking chocolate*
3 tb Unsweetened cocoa
1/3 c Powdered sugar
1/3 c Unsweetened cocoa
*Broken into pieces.
Soak the cherries in the brandy overnight or longer. Drain the cherries, reserve
Recipe
Cream the butter and sugar in a mixer.
In a double boiler, melt the sweet milk chocolate and the Unsweetened baking chocolate.
Add the melted chocolate, a spoonful at a time, into the butter/sugar mixture and mix thoroughly by hand.
Add reserved brandy to sugar and chocolate mixture and stir by hand until all is absorbed. Add the 3 tb cocoa and mix by hand.
Put mixture in the freezer and thoroughly chill.
Prepare a surface to assemble the balls. Mix together the powdered sugar and cocoa.
On a piece of waxed paper, heavily dust with the cocoa powdered sugar mixture.
Remove the chocolate from the freezer when it is chilled and stiff.
For each cherry, spoon out a heaping teaspoon of the chocolate and drop on dusted paper.
Dip your fingers into the cocoa/sugar mixture and flatten chocolate to a small pancake.
Place a cherry in the center and fold chocolate around it. Gently roll the ball between your palms to form and finish by rolling the ball in the cocoa/sugar mixture.
Repeat for each cherry. If the chocolate mixture softens, return to the freezer to firm up.
Place the completed balls in a container with a lid and store in the fridge.
These balls are dense and heavy with a rich chocolate flavor. For a lighter flavor, omit the unsweetened baking chocolate and add 1/4 lb. more milk chocolate.
Licking your fingers is not permitted during the assembly, but mandatory after you are done.
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