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    Home » Recipes » Amish Candies

    Amish Homemade Chocolate-Covered Cherries

    Published: Dec 22, 2021 · Updated: Dec 22, 2021 by Kevin Williams | Leave a Comment

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    How about one more Amish candy recipe before we close out Christmas? Depending on which community, which order, which sect, chances are if you poked your head into the kitchen of an Amish farmhouse right now, you’d see many hands at work dipping confections in the chocolate, rolling them in sugar, cutting out dough with cookie cutters, and festive sprinkles flying. You'd be sure to find these Homemade Amish Chocolate-Covered Cherries being made!

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    • 🍒 Chocolate-Covered Cherry Ingredients
    • 📋 Instructions
    • 🍒 More Amish Recipes With Cherries
    • 📋 Full Recipe


    Chocolate-covered cherries are a favorite Amish tradition. And, if it’s too late to add Homemade Amish Chocolate-Covered Cherries to your last-minute holiday menu, hey, they’re perfectly great for Valentine’s Day.  So stick the recipe in your pocket for then.

    This recipe is super-easy in the sense that it only has five different ingredients, so this actually is perfect in a pinch at the last minute. And one of the five ingredients is simply the juice from the can of cherries, so, well, it's almost just four ingredients. I think just canned cherries in juice is easiest for this, but you could do it with fresh cherries, I suppose, but that seems like it'd be a lot of trouble.

    Amish Chocolate-Covered Cherries

    Use squares of semi-sweet chocolate (milk chocolate or dark chocolate would also work!) and then melt.

    Amish Homemade Chocolate-Covered Cherries

    Cherry juice, butter, and powdered sugar are the main items that you'll mix up as the covering to the cherry.

    This is what it looks like when it is all mixed up. This mixture will "handle" better if you stick it in the fridge for a couple of hours before trying to "pack" it around each cherry.

    Smoosh this mixture around each cherry and dip into the melted chocolate.

    Dip in chocolate and then refrigerate for awhile just to give it all a chance to "set" and then you can pack them in a decorative tin or box to give away as a gift. Or set out on a decorative tray to eat.

    Amish Homemade Chocolate-Covered Cherries

    Let's see....any variations on this that would work? I think this would work well with strawberries. Chocolate-covered peaches doesn't sound very appealing. You could use white chocolate, in fact, having a bowl of melted white and a bowl of melted dark would be festive. You could roll the cherries in Christmas sprinkles. Or, hmmmm, I like this idea, crush some graham cracker crumbs into the sugar mixture and, wow, yeah, everything is better that way.

    🍒 Chocolate-Covered Cherry Ingredients

    • 20 ounces of cherries
    • ¼ pound soft butter
    • ½ cup of cherry juice
    • 2 pounds of powdered sugar
    • Melted semi-sweet chocolate

    📋 Instructions

    1. Mix sugar, juice, and butter thoroughly (handles better if you let it cool for awhile).
    2. Make small balls, press flat.
    3. Stick a cherry on each flat ball and cover with the sugar mixture.
    4. Dip in chocolate within 2 hours or it will be hard to dip.

    🍒 More Amish Recipes With Cherries

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    📋 Full Recipe

    Amish Homemade Chocolate-Covered Cherries

    Homemade Amish Chocolate-Covered Cherries

    A delicious Christmas confection!
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    Course Dessert
    Cuisine American, Amish

    Ingredients
      

    • 20 ounces of cherries
    • ¼  pound soft butter
    • ½ cup cherry juice
    • 2 pounds powdered sugar
    • Melted semi-sweet chocolate

    Instructions
     

    • Mix sugar, juice, and butter thoroughly (handles better if you let it cool for awhile).
    • Make small balls
    • Press flat and cover cherries.
    • Dip in chocolate within 2 hours or it will be hard to dip.
    Tried this recipe?Let us know how it was!
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