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    Dads Chocolate Balls with Cherry Centers


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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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