Recipe - Chocolate-Covered Apricots

Drained apricots
2 One half cup (15 oz) semisweet chocolate
chips (for
2 tablespoon Vegetable shortening

Recipe by: Sunset magazine Prep and cook time: 40 minutes Makes: About 200
(3 lb)

1. Pat fruit completely dry. Place chocolate chips and 2 tablespoons
shortening in top of a double broiler; set aside. Fill bottom pan with 1
inch water. Over medium heat, bring water to steaming (120 degrees). Remove
from heat, place pan with chocolate chips over water and stir until melted,
about 5 minutes.

2. Dunk aprictos into chocolate to coat halfway, letting excess drip off;
then place pitted side down on baking sheets lined with plastic wrap. Chill
until chocolate firms, about 15 minutes. Serve fruit, chill airtight up to
2 weeks or freeze up to 1 month.

Posted to recipeludigest Volume 01 Number 184 by Mandy Rose Bell
mbell@gladstone.uoregon.edu on Oct 30, 1997