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Chocolate Covered Cherries Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
4- 6 oz. pkgs chocolate chips
1/2 bar paraffin wax
1/2 c. cold mashed potatoes
8 c. powdered sugar
1/2 gallon maraschino cherries with stems (drained)
Directions:
Directions:
In top of double boiler melt chocolate and paraffin.
Keep chocolate warm for dipping and during dipping.
Mix potatoes with sugar until stiff enough to handle and form.
Form into a small ball then flatten in palm, place cherry in middle and form around the cherry.
Holding the stem, dip in chocolate and place on wax paper to cool.
You have to make them one at a time.
You can't make the cherries ahead of time they will get runny and you can't dip them.
After they have cooled lift off wax paper and look at the bottoms, if any white shows through, re-dip the bottom.
Number Of Servings:
Number Of Servings:
varies
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
I use instant potatoes and I use the cherry liquid to make them.

 

 

 

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