I found this recipe on line by Start Nover. I just made one or two slight changes.
First combine 2 cups of powdered sugar - 1/4 cup butter - 1/4 cup sweetened condensed milk - 1 teaspoon vanilla and a pinch of salt. Once that’s mixed, cover with plastic wrap and put it in the refrigerator until firm.
While that is getting cold, drain a jar of maraschino cherries, place them on a cookie sheet and put them in the freezer for an hour.
When everything is cool, take 1-2 teaspoons of filling and form a ball around the frozen cherry. This is going to be a little more difficult if you keep the stem in but you can do it.
After they are all coated, put them on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper and freeze them for an hour.
You can use the dipping chocolate blocks you get at the grocery store if you want to or you can use chocolate morsels. Next time I’ll use the dark chocolate morsels but for this project I used milk chocolate. I put a bag of chocolate in a microwave safe bowl and melted them - (microwave for 30 seconds at a time stirring after each time) until creamy and soft. Don’t over cook the chocolate or it will dry out.
Now take a frozen cherry and coat it with melted chocolate. Make sure that you don’t leave any holes were the liquid might leak out later. The chocolate will harden pretty quickly on the frozen cherry so move fast.
Now wait a few days to give the sugar coating a chance to liquify. They will keep in an airtight container for a month.
I had some extra chocolate so I toasted some Almond slivers and mixed them with the left over chocolate and put about a teaspoon each in a paper candy cup.
Now that you have made your candy you can place them on a pretty Christmas plate and give them to friends or bring them to a party. Better yet, paint a Christmas design on a plate and really make an impression!
Plate painting directions can be found here:
http://www.growitfirst.blogspot.com/2013/08/grow-it-first-with-ck-worley.html
Looking for a quick stocking stuffer? Give the gift of a garden with some gloves and good starter seeds. I like Martha Stewart’s 100% certified organic seeds. Then make sure that you include a card with my "seed sowing" blog post on it.
http://www.growitfirst.blogspot.com/2012/02/grow-it-first-with-ck-worley-sowing.html
And now for one last thing-
“But now we have a choice: whether to implode and disintegrate emotionally and spiritually as a people and a nation - or, whether we choose to become stronger through all of this struggle - to rebuild on a solid foundation. And I believe we are in the process of starting to rebuild on that foundation. That foundation is our trust in God”. Billy Graham
YUM!
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