Recipe - How To Make Chocolate Covered Cherries

DOLORES MCCANN (BSWN00A)
Liquid type/candy mold
Marachino cherries in juice
Dry candy fondant
Compound coating chocolate

~Fill a sqeeze bottle with melted coating chocolate. ~Sqeeze out choc.
into ea. mold cavity. Tilt the mold to be sure ea cavity is coated clear
to the tops all around. Invert mold over wax paper & prop with flexible
plastic cup so mold isn't touching wax paper. OR Invert over foil
sheet pan w/cake rack in it. Let the excess choc. drip out. When choc.
starts to set up not shiny & is "rubbery", use a small Wilton bent
spatula to scrape off drippings level at tops of ea cavity. READY TO ADD
SYRUP: Have mixed & in separate sqeeze bottle: 1 part Marachino cherry
juice 10 parts Dry Candy Fondant This should be the consistancy of Karo
syrup. Don't worry you can't ruin this! After you have mixed the
ingredients together in a bowl, pour into the squeeze bottle. DRY MARACHINO
CHERRIES ON PAPER TOWELS & place one in each cavity. Add syrup to 1/4" from
the top. ~Using the squeeze bottle of chocolate work in spiral from
outside/into center, add chocolate on the top to carefully seal. ~Chill
only until chocolate separates from the mold about 10 minutes. More
time may crack the choc. shells. Chill in freezer section Invert mold
to dump out finished cherries CAREFULLY! They may crack if they hit the
table hard & you have to eat all your mistakes VBG. I wrap EVERY one in
the little foil candy wraps. If you don't wrap, "leakers" develope. That
costs too & is messy. I use the cherries in the pretty foil to add color to
my candy boxes.

Remelt "drippings" of chocolate. I use 5 molds at a time. More & the
chocolate may set up too quick for you. I think I make about 100 an hour,
maybe more, this way.

NO parafin candle wax poo USE COATING CHOCOLATE! These completely
liquify in 12 days easy, if not sooner still. Keep covered tightly wrap
box also in plastic Saran & store in cool place. Keeps about 34 weeks.
The cherries don't spoil. "Bloom" occurs when chocolate is not tightly
sealed. Dolores

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