Aunt Bea's Chocolate Covered Cherries
- Ready In:
- 45mins
- Ingredients:
- 10
- Serves:
-
40
ingredients
- 14 ounces maraschino cherries (with stems)
- 12 ounces semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 12 ounces milk chocolate chips
- paraffin wax
-
white fondant
- 1⁄3 cup unsalted butter
- 1⁄3 cup white corn syrup
- 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 4 1⁄2 cups confectioners' sugar, plus
- 2 -3 tablespoons confectioners' sugar
directions
- Drain cherries.
- Prepare fondant.
- Add all fondant ingrediants together in a large bowl and mix together.
- Knead fondant adding powdered sugar just until the fondant no longer sticks to the table or board.
- Roll fondant into one inch balls, flatten and wrap around cherries, sealing at the stem.
- Place into refrigerator to chill.
- Add both bags of chips to top of double boiler with water in bottom half simmering.
- Add approximately a two inch square of paraffin to chip (as shavings).
- Let melt, stirring occasionally.
- When fully liquid dip cherries into chocolate and place on waxed paper to set.
- Store in the refrigerator until ready to eat.
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I live in a house that was built in 1929 and is in a constant state of renovation. I cook and bake indiscriminently. Appropriately since most of my memories of my family time are centered around the kitchen or the dining room table. Whatever is in the pantry or fridge when I open the door will probably be in whatever I'm making. I also rarely measure anything, which comes from my aunts. I tend to garden the same way, although due to the small size of my yard I show more restraint. I work as a nurse to support these hobbies.