Chocolate covered candied cherries

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       Title: CHOCOLATE COVERED CANDIED CHERRIES
  Categories: Candies
       Yield: 6 servings
  
      50    Whole candied cherries
     3/4 c  Cherry brandy
     1/2 lb Sweet milk chocolate, broken
            -into pieces
     1/4 lb Unsweetened baking
            -chocolate, broken into
            -pieces
   1 1/3 c  Powdered sugar
       3 tb Unsweetened cocoa
            Powdered sugar
            Unsweetened cocoa
  
   Soak the cherries in the brandy overnight or longer.
   Drain cherries, reserve the brandy.
   
   Cream butter and sugar with 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 in my hand until all is absorbed.  Add 3 T. cocoa
   and mix by hand.
   
   Put mixture in a clean bowl and thoroughly chill in
   the freezer. Meanwhile, make a 50-50 mixture of
   powdered sugar and cocoa.  Begin with 1/3 c. EACH and
   mix thoroughly.  Heavily dust a sheet of waxed paper
   on a working surface.
   
   When the chocolate mixture is chilled and very stiff,
   remove from the freezer. Drop by teaspoonfuls on
   dusted working surface and dust your fingers in the
   sugar/cocoa mixture, press with fingers to make a
   small flat shape with the chocolate.  Drop a cherry in
   the center and form a ball around the cherry.
   
   Working quickly, complete the shape by rolling the
   ball between your palms.
   
   Roll ball in sugar/cocoa mixture to coat.  Continue
   working until the chocolate mixture is too soft to
   continue.  Return to freezer to chill some more and
   continue until all the chocolate and cherries are gone.
   
   The chocolate covered cherries can be stored in the
   frig.
   
   For a lighter, sweeter chocolate taste, increase the
   sweet chocolate and decrease or eliminate the
   unsweetened chocolate.  The more milk chocolate you
   use, the more diffucult it will be to work with as it
   melts rather rapidly.
   
   You can also substitute and equal portion of
   semi-sweet bits (toll house chocolates) for the
   chocolate.
   
   Other candied fruit and liquors can be used according
   to your taste.
   
   Enjoy!
  
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