Chocolate Cherry Cordials

Name: Chocolate Cherry Cordials
Prep time: 2 d
Cook time: 2 d
Total time: 2 d
Yield: 24
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 227 grams bittersweet chocolate, finely chopped; 3 Tbsps bourbon or liquor; 1 Tbsp light corn syrup; 237 milliliters granulated sugar; 24 maraschino cherries with stems; 4 Tbsps liquid from maraschino cherry jar; 79 milliliters water

Chocolate Cherry Cordials might be just the beverage you are searching for. One serving contains 106 calories, 1g of protein, and 4g of fat. This recipe covers 1% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe serves 24. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 48 hours. It is a good option if you're following a dairy free diet. Head to the store and pick up bittersweet chocolate, granulated sugar, liquid from maraschino cherry jar, and a few other things to make it today.

Instructions

Place cherries in small bowl with liquor. Cover and rest overnight, stirring occasionally.

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Cherries

Liquor

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Bowl

Place cherries on paper towel lined pan to dry, standing each cherry upright. In small saucepan, combine sugar, water, cherry juice, and light corn syrup. Cook over medium heat, stirring to dissolve sugar. When mixture comes to boil, stop stirring and continue to cook until mixture registers 240°F on instant read thermometer, occasionally brushing edge of pan with water to dissolve crystals.

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Light Corn Syrup

Cherry Juice

Cherries

Sugar

Water

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Paper Towels

Kitchen Thermometer

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Frying Pan

Pour sugar syrup onto large marble slab or rimmed baking sheet set over a towel, and let cool until just barely warm, about 25 minutes. Using bench scraper, scrape syrup up and over itself. Continue this motion while moving mass of thickened syrup back and forth across pan. Syrup will begin to thicken as it cools. Use offset spatula to scrape syrup from bench scraper. Continue working fondant until mixture begins to turn from translucent to opaque, about 15 minutes.

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Simple Syrup

Fondant Icing

Syrup

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Offset Spatula

Dough Scraper

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Continue to work mixture back and forth across marble until it begins to thicken considerably, to the point of becoming a thick paste, about 15 minutes more.

Transfer fondant to small saucepan and set over low heat, stirring until just melted.

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Fondant Icing

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Sauce Pan

Remove from heat.

Line baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside. Holding cherry by the stem, dip in fondant to coat, and set on prepared sheepan. Remelt fondant if it thickens before cherries are finished being dipped.

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Cherries

Fondant Icing

Dip

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Baking Paper

Baking Sheet

Let fondant dry onto cherries, about 10 minutes.

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Cherries

Fondant Icing

Place chocolate in heatproof bowl set over pan of barely simmering water. Stirring gently, heat until about half of chocolate is melted.

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Chocolate

Water

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Bowl

Frying Pan

Remove bowl from heat and continue to stir chocolate until completely melted.

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Chocolate

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Bowl

One by one, dip fondant covered cherries in chocolate, covering completely and then allowing excess chocolate to drip from cherry. Set each cherry back on parchment lined sheetpan. Chill at least 48 hours before serving.

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Chocolate

Cherries

Fondant Icing

Dip