Chocolate-Covered Maraschino Cherries
"I love chocolate covered cherries,and these are so easy to make.I make them every Christmas and Valentines Day"
photo by ShortyBond
- Ready In:
- 1hr 20mins
- Ingredients:
- 8
- Yields:
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36 cherries(more or less,depending on size of cherrie
- Serves:
- 36
ingredients
- 1 jar maraschino cherry, drained well
- 3 tablespoons butter, melted
- 1⁄4 cup evaporated milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
- 4 1⁄2 cups sifted powdered sugar (, may need more)
- 1 (12 ounce) bag semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 2 tablespoons shortening
directions
- Drain cherries,place on paper towels and pat well.
- Set aside.
- Place sifted powdered sugar in bowl.
- Combine melted butter,evaporated milk vanilla,and salt.
- Pour over powdered sugar and mix well.
- May need to use hands to form a stiff,not sticky dough.
- Add more powdered sugar slowly,if need to form dough.
- Now pinch of a small amount,flatten into a disc and form around each cherry.
- Pinch off any excess dough.
- Place cherry on wax paper lined cookie sheets and refrigerate for 1 hour.
- Melt chocolate chips and shortening over boiling water in double boiler.
- Dip cherries in chocolate,scraping off excess.
- Refrigerate until chocolate is hard.
- (I cheat sometimes and just use the chocolate flavored Almond Bark or candy coating).
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Reviews
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I was really happy with this recipe. I put my kids in an assembly line to roll the cherries. It was a lot of fun! We did a large jar of about 96 cherries and had plenty of dough for all of them in a single batch. I also doubled the shortening in the chocolate coating. Excellent! -
These were pretty good, but I guess I was expecting a liquid center like most chocolate covered cherries have. I read reviews that say they will liquify if left sitting, but it has been about a week. I keep tasting one a day and they still do not have a liquid center, but they do taste good. -
Great! Super yummy and really really easy to make as well. Thankyou for sharing!! -
Now these are great-I had never done them like this and boy are they great--can't eat many at a time but they are so nice!! Thanks very much
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I ended up having at least half of the fondant left over so I would suggest either making a half recipe of the fondant or buying 2 jars of maraschino cherries. I used Hershey's Special Dark chips and enough shortening to get the proper dipping consistency. Be sure to cover up the entire cherry in chocolate otherwise, when they sit, the cherry juice starts to seep through the uncovered area. I fixed that by doing a touch up with remelted chocolate.
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