Recipe for cooking chocolate covered cherries

Desserts to Go with Coffee and Tea :: Chocolate Confections

Chocolate Covered Cherries

If you store these, they will make the juice around the cherry, just like the ones you buy in the store.

8 Tbsp. melted butter
6 Tbsp. corn syrup
1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
1 tsp. vanilla extract or flavoring*
3 lb. powdered\sugar
3 (10 oz.) jars maraschino cherries, drained
2 c. semisweet chocolate chips
1/2 Tbsp. shortening

* Almond extract or flavoring may be substituted, if desired.

In a large mixing bowl, combine butter, corn syrup, sweetened condensed milk, vanilla, and sugar. Knead dough, and form it into balls with a cherry wrapped in the middle. The balls should be approximately the size of walnuts. Place balls in the freezer to chill.

In a double boiler, melt chocolate chips and shortening together. Dip the cooled balls in the chocolate, let cool on parchment paper.