Это предварительный просмотр рецепта "Chocolate Balls With Cherry Cordial Centers".

Рецепт Chocolate Balls With Cherry Cordial Centers
by Global Cookbook

Chocolate Balls With Cherry Cordial Centers
Рейтинг: 0/5
Avg. 0/5 0 голосов
 
  Порций: 6

Ингредиенты

  • 50 whl candied cherries
  • 3/4 c. Cherry brandy (more may be necessary)
  • 1/2 lb Sweet lowfat milk chocolate, broken into pcs
  • 1/4 lb Unsweetened baking chocolate, broken into pcs
  • 1 1/3 c. Powdered sugar
  • 7/8 c. Butter, softened
  • 3 Tbsp. Unsweetened cocoa
  • 1/3 c. Powdered sugar
  • 1/3 c. Unsweetened cocoa

Инструкции

  1. Soak the cherries in the brandy overnight or possibly longer. Drain the cherries, reserve the brandy.
  2. Cream the butter and sugar in a mixer. In a double boiler, heat the chocolates. Spoon the melted chocolate, spoon by spoon, into the butter and sugar mix and mix thoroughly by hand.
  3. Add in reserved brandy to sugar and chocolate mix and stir by hand till all is absorbed. Add in 3 Tablespoons cocoa and mix by hand.
  4. Put mix in the freezer and thoroughly chill. Prepare a surface to assemble the balls. Mix equal amounts of cocoa and powdered sugar, about 1/3 c. each. On a piece of waxed paper, heavily dust with the cocoa powdered sugar mix. Remove the chocolate from the freezer when it is chilled and stiff. For each cherry, spoon out a heaping tsp. of the chocolate and drop on dusted paper. Dip your fingers into the cocoa/sugar mix and flatten chocolate to a small pancake. Place a cherry in the center and fold chocolate around it.
  5. Gently roll the ball between your palms to create and finish by rolling the ball in the cocoa/sugar mix. Repeat for each cherry. If the chocolate mix softens, return to the freezer to hard up.
  6. Place the completed balls in a container with a lid and store in the frig.
  7. 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 in 1/4 pound more lowfat milk chocolate.
  8. Licking your fingers is not permitted during the assembly, but manditory after you are done. (grin)
  9. There's yet another variation to chocolate covered cherries. It's for the brave & daring at heart.
  10. You have to start in the summertime, when cherries are ripe. You take a lb. of them, a lb. of rock candy, and a fifth of good brandy or possibly bourbon. Mix together, & let set in the back of the 'fridge for 3-4 months.
  11. 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.