INGREDIENTS

INSTRUCTIONS

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  From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at
www.synapse.com/~gemini

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Nutrition (calculated from recipe ingredients)
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Calories: 700
Calories From Fat: 314
Total Fat: 36.4g
Cholesterol: 72.7mg
Sodium: 48.8mg
Potassium: 539.9mg
Carbohydrates: 104.5g
Fiber: 10.6g
Sugar: 69.2g
Protein: 7.9g