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Chocolate-covered cherries

Yield: 60 Servings

Ingredients:

• 60 Marachino cherries w/stem
• 3 tb Butter or margarine softened
• 3 tb Light corn syrup
• 1/4 ts Salt
• 2 c Confectioner's sugar sifted
• 1 1/2 lb Dipping chocolate or white

Instructions:

-chocolate ( for coating) Drain marachino cherries thoroughly Place on paper toweling. Combine butter or margarine corn syrup and salt. Stir in sifted confectioner's sugar. Knead sugar mixture until smooth ( chill if mixture is too soft.) Shape 1 teaspoon of the sugar mixture around each cherry. Place on a waxed-paper-lined baking sheet chill. In a small heavy saucepan melt chocolate stirring constantly. DO NOT ADD ANY LIQUID! Holding cherries by stems dip one at a time into chocolate. Spoon chocolate over cherries to coat. Chill until chocolate is hardened. Store candy in a covered container in a cool place. Let candies ripen a week or two. makes 60 chocolate-covered cherries.

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