Recipe#4370

Title: Chocolate Cherries 06

From: jalex@direct.ca (Jeanie) 
 Newsgroups: rec.food.recipes 
 Subject: Chocolate Covered Cherries 
 Date: 15 Dec 1997 06:30:16 -0700 
 Message-ID: <349468f3.9701726@mail.direct.CA> 

Yield: 60 servings
 60 marachino cherries, with stems
 3 tb butter or margarine, softened
 3 tb light corn syrup
 1/4 ts salt
 2 c confectioner's sugar, sifted
 1 1/2 lb dipping chocolate or white chocolate
 Drain marachino cherries thoroughly, Place on paper toweling.
 Combine butter or margarine, corn syrup and salt. Stir in sifted
 confectioner's sugar. Knead sugar mixture until smooth ( chill if
 mixture is too soft.) Shape 1 teaspoon of the sugar mixture around
 each cherry. Place on a waxed-paper-lined baking sheet, chill.
 In a small, heavy saucepan, melt chocolate, stirring constantly.
 Do not add any liquid! Holding cherries by stems, dip one at a time
 into chocolate. Spoon chocolate over cherries to coat. Chill until
 chocolate is hardened.
 Store candy in a covered container in a cool place. Let candies
 ripen a week or two. makes 60 chocolate-covered cherries.