Recipe of Speedy Chocolate Covered Cherries

Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, chocolate covered cherries. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have chocolate covered cherries using 17 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Chocolate Covered Cherries:

1. Take fondant
2. Make ready 2 1/2 cup confectioners sugar
3. Prepare 1/4 cup butter, softened
4. Make ready 1 tbsp milk
5. Make ready 1/2 tsp almond extract
6. Prepare 1/4 tsp invertase
7. Make ready additional ingredients
8. Make ready 2 (8 ounce) jars of maraschino cherries, with stems
9. Take 1 cup cherry flavored brandy
10. Get 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
11. Make ready 1 cup white chocolate chips
12. Take 2 tbsp Crisco
13. Get optional garnishes
14. Make ready 1 mini M&Ms candies
15. Take 1 finely chopped pecans
16. Take 1 candy sprinkles
17. Take 1 Heath bar chips

Steps to make Chocolate Covered Cherries:

1. Drain the 2 jars of cherries (save the liquid–it's good in cola drinks!). Split the brandy between the 2 jars of cherries. If cherries aren't completely covered by the brandy, add some of the reserved cherry liquid to cover. Replace the jar lids and refrigerate for 2 days.
2. In a small mixing bowl (from electric stand mixer) combine the fondant ingredients and mix well. Knead until smooth and form into a large ball. Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate.
3. Drain the 2 jars of cherries (save the liquid–it's now even BETTER in cola drinks! LOL). Lay cherries on paper towels.
4. Roll chilled fondant into 1-inch balls and flatten each into a 2-inch circle. Wrap around cherries to completely cover and smoosh tightly around the lowest part of the cherry stem. You want the cherries to be completely sealed by the fondant, kind of "air tight".
5. Place with stems up on waxed paper-lined baking sheet. Cover loosely and refrigerate 4 hours or overnight.
6. Place the semi-sweet chocolate chips and the white chocolate chips in 2 separate coffe mugs. Add 1 tablespoon Crisco shortening to each. (It's best to just work with one of the cups of chips at a time from this point on, dipping half your cherries in the dark chocolate before melting the white chocolate for dipping the other half of your cherries.)
7. Microwave chocolate chips for 1 minute. Stir. If not completely melted, continue microwaving ONLY in 5-second intervals, just until melted.
8. Holding on to stem, dip cherries into chocolate, allow excess to drip back into the cup of chocolate, and roll (if desired) in any of the additional decorating ingredients. Set on waxed paper to harden.
9. Store in a covered container. Refrigerate 1-2 weeks before serving so that the fondant (specifically, the invertase) somewhat liquifies the cherry.

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