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You will need these ingredients:
Candy molds
Candy paper cups
Whole pistachio nuts shelled
Maraschino Cherries a large jar no stems around 25
Powdered sugar
Butter
2 pounds good grade chocolate
Condensed milk or corn syrup will work as well
red food coloring
For the fondant:
1/3 cup butter
1/3 cup sweetened condensed milk or corn syrup
1 teaspoon almond extract
1/4 teaspoon salt
3 1/2 cups powdered sugar
red food color
Blend together the milk, one drop of red food coloring, extract, salt and butter. Add the sugar mixing on a cutting board and knead until well blended.
Melt the chocolate in the microwave stirring frequently every minute intervals until free flowing.
Pour a little chocolate into each candy mold gently shaking to level the chocolate and to line the mold as a shell not too much around a teaspoon per candy. Tipping it back and forth will work perfectly. Refrigerate until hardened.
Take a small piece of fondant around 1 teaspoon roll half a cherrie into the middle add two or three whole pistachios and place in the center of the molded chocolate for this is the filling. Add more chocolate on top. Do this to all the molds and then refrigerate until firm around 25 minutes.
These will pop out freely once hard. You can put them in festive candy wrappers.
Store in the refrigerator until ready to eat them and take out around 1/2 hour before your ready to serve at room temperature.
Tips and Notes:
I have made these without molds as well a little messy but you can roll the fondant around the cherries inot balls. Freeze them and then dip into chocolate with a fork to let the chocolate drip off and lay them on wax paper or you can also use the stemmed cherries and dip them in the chocolate and let them dry on wax paper, those look prettier!
So don''t let not having the molds stop you from making these candies!
Pinky and beautiful! Homemade is the best!
ReplyDeletesono buonissimi e belli da vedere Claudia. Buona domenica!
ReplyDeleteI am so dang impressed!!
ReplyDeleteI love this recipe, and it truly sounds soooooo delicious!!! My favorite chocolate candy is chocolate covered cherries, but this is soooo much better:-) Take care, Terra
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I love pistachios!!!!! When I was young we would get a really big bag full from the street vendor,Your treats looks so yummy!! xo
ReplyDeleteI want to know how you stay so thin making all these yummy sweets!!!! Lucky girl.
ReplyDeleteSemplicemente meraviglioso!!! Complimenti!!!
ReplyDeleteI love that you added pistachio.
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