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      Title: Chocolate Balls with Cherry Centers
 Categories: Candies
      Yield: 6 servings
     50    Whole candied cherries
    3/4 c  Cherry brandy (more may be
           -necessary)
    1/2 lb Sweet milk chocolate, broken
           -into pieces
    1/4 lb Unsweetened baking
           -chocolate, broken into
           -pieces
  1 1/3 c  Powdered sugar
    7/8 c  Butter, softened
      3 tb Unsweetened cocoa
           Powdered sugar
           Unsweetened cocoa
  Soak the cherries in the brandy overnight or longer.  Drain the
  cherries, reserve the brandy.
  Cream the butter and sugar in a mixer.  In a double boiler, melt the
  chocolates.  Spoon the melted chocolate, spoon by spoon, into the
  butter and sugar mixture and mix thoroughly by hand.
  Add reserved brandy to sugar and chocolate mixture and stir by hand
  until all is absorbed.  Add 3 T. cocoa and mix by hand.
  Put mixture in the freezer and thoroughly chill.  Prepare a surface to
  assemble the balls.  Mix equal amounts of cocoa and powdered sugar,
  about 1/3 cup each.  On a piece of waxed paper, heavily dust with the
  cocoa powdered sugar mixture.  Remove the chocolate from the freezer
  when it is chilled and stiff.  For each cherry, spoon out a heaping
  teaspoon of the chocolate and drop on dusted paper. Dip your fingers
  into the cocoa/sugar mixture and flatten chocolate to a small
  pancake. Place a cherry in the center and fold chocolate around it.
  Gently roll the ball between your palms to form and finish by rolling
  the ball in the cocoa/sugar mixture. Repeat for each cherry.  If the
  chocolate mixture softens, return to the freezer to firm up.
  Place the completed balls in a container with a lid and store in the
  frig.
  These balls are dense and heavy with a rich chocolate flavor.  For a
  lighter flavor, I suggest you omit the unsweetened baking chocolate
  and add 1/4 lb. more milk chocolate.
  Licking your fingers is not permitted during the assembly, but
  manditory after you are done.  (grin)
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MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.01
      Title: Chocolate Covered Candied Cherries
 Categories: Candies
      Yield: 6 servings
     50    Whole candied cherries
    3/4 c  Cherry brandy
    1/2 lb Sweet milk chocolate, broken
           -into pieces
    1/4 lb Unsweetened baking
           -chocolate, broken into
           -pieces
  1 1/3 c  Powdered sugar
      3 tb Unsweetened cocoa
           Powdered sugar
           Unsweetened cocoa
  Soak the cherries in the brandy overnight or longer.  Drain cherries,
  reserve the brandy.
  Cream butter and sugar with a mixer.  In a double boiler, melt the
  chocolates. Spoon the melted chocolate, spoon by spoon, into the
  butter and sugar mixture and mix thoroughly by hand.
  Add reserved brandy to sugar and chocolate mixture and stir in my hand
  until all is absorbed.  Add 3 T. cocoa and mix by hand.
  Put mixture in a clean bowl and thoroughly chill in the freezer.
  Meanwhile, make a 50-50 mixture of powdered sugar and cocoa.  Begin
  with 1/3 c. EACH and mix thoroughly.  Heavily dust a sheet of waxed
  paper on a working surface.
  When the chocolate mixture is chilled and very stiff, remove from the
  freezer. Drop by teaspoonfuls on dusted working surface and dust your
  fingers in the sugar/cocoa mixture, press with fingers to make a
  small flat shape with the chocolate.  Drop a cherry in the center and
  form a ball around the cherry.
  Working quickly, complete the shape by rolling the ball between your
  palms.
  Roll ball in sugar/cocoa mixture to coat.  Continue working until the
  chocolate mixture is too soft to continue.  Return to freezer to
  chill some more and continue until all the chocolate and cherries are
  gone.
  The chocolate covered cherries can be stored in the frig.
  For a lighter, sweeter chocolate taste, increase the sweet chocolate
  and decrease or eliminate the unsweetened chocolate.  The more milk
  chocolate you use, the more diffucult it will be to work with as it
  melts rather rapidly.
  You can also substitute and equal portion of semi-sweet bits (toll
  house chocolates) for the chocolate.
  Other candied fruit and liquors can be used according to your taste.
  Enjoy!
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