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How To make Chocolate Balls with Cherry Cordial Centers
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
1/3 c Powdered sugar
1/3 c 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) There's yet another variation to chocolate covered cherries. It's for the brave & daring at heart. You have to start in the summertime, when cherries are ripe. You take a pound of them, a pound of rock candy, and a fifth of good brandy or bourbon. Mix together, & let set in the back of the 'fridge for 3-4 months. When you finally get around to making the chocolate covered cherries, you use the preserved cherries for the centers, & the liquor as the base for the cordial. Courtesy of: Al Martin
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Absolutely wonderful footage of home made liqueur chocolates being made - yum. Pathe Pictorial takes us through all the various steps involved. They are being made for a famous Piccadilly store - which is not named (could be Fortnum and Mason - SL).
Sugar syrup is made then liqueur added. Various shots of moulds being made in trays of warm starch. The liqueur mixture is dripped into the moulds then the top is covered over with the starch. The delicate shells of liqueur are taken out of the moulds when the outside has solidified slightly. (Always wondered how they did that!)
Cherries soaked in brandy are taken from a big barrel then covered with gooey pink fondant cream - mm! Melted chocolate is seen in a big vat - it pours out of the bottom. Peppermint creams are covered in chocolate. The liqueur shells seen earlier are covered with chocolate. There are women up to their wrists in it says the narrator over a shot of a woman dipping chocolates in melted chocolate - her hand is absolutely covered in chocolate - not very hygienic!
Various shots of the chocolates being wrapped by hand and arranged in boxes. C/U of a box of very cute foil covered chocolates with the name of the liqueur contained within. Narrator suggests that this is the last place where hand made chocolates are made but I'm not so sure about that. He says that mass-production is an ugly word here and talks of the old world charm of chocolates that are made one at a time.
Various shots of chocolates on display in the shop then C/U of woman popping a choc into her mouth. That's probably what you've been wanting to do since we started this story says the narrator - too right!
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Chocolate Covered Cherry Cordials
Here are those old school Chocolate Covered Cherries...done the Cocoa Dolce way! Brandy soaked cherries in a dark chocolate hand-painted shell.
Quick And Easy Chocolate Covered Cherries -- No Bake Required!
Share this video on your news feed if you like it. You can make chocolate covered cherries from maraschino cherries -- left over from decorating your Pina Colada Cake -- or from fresh cherries.
Simple, easy and I show you how to make the parchment cone for decorating.
Equipment
Link to the cherry pitter I used.
Mini cupcake liners
Large baking tray -
Ingredients:
2 1/2 c (325 g) Powered Sugar
1/4 c (57 g) unsalted butter
1 tablespoon maraschino cherry juice or water
1-2 tsp water as needed
10 oz (283 g) semi-sweet chocolate for dipping. Melted in microwave for 1 minute then 30 second intervals as needed.
White chocolate melts for drizzling plus any colored sugars, jimmies or sprinkles
Directions:
1. Knead all ingredients into a paste. Add 1 tsp of water as needed.
2. Wrap around cherries and roll into a ball.
3. Dip into melted chocolate and drizzle with the white melts.