Your day will get off to the ideal start with this energizing smoothie! A simple, speedy, and tasty way to start the day!
| Prep Time: | 25 mins |
| Cook Time: | 5 mins |
| Additional Time: | 7 days 1 hr 30 mins |
| Total Time: | 7 days 2 hrs |
| Servings: | 24 |
| Yield: | 2 dozen chocolate-covered cherries |
Ingredients
- 1 (10 ounce) jar maraschino cherries
- ½ cup rum (such as Bacardi 151®)
- 3 ¾ cups confectioners’ sugar
- ½ cup butter, softened
- ¼ cup milk
- 1 teaspoon maple syrup
- 1 (6 ounce) bag chocolate chips
- 2 (1 ounce) squares semisweet chocolate
- 2 tablespoons butter, softened
- 2-inch square food-grade paraffin wax
Instructions
- Pour cherries, with their juice, into a glass bowl. Cover cherries with rum. Cover with plastic wrap and store in the refrigerate for 1 week.
- Drain and dry rum-infused cherries.
- Line a baking sheet with waxed paper.
- Mix confectioners’ sugar, 1/2 cup butter, milk, and maple syrup together in a bowl until smooth and pliable. Wrap each cherry with sugar mixture. Arrange on baking sheet. Cover loosely with plastic wrap and chill until firm, about 30 minutes.
- Combine chocolate chips, semisweet chocolate, 2 tablespoons butter, and paraffin wax in a saucepan. Heat over medium-low heat, stirring, until melted, about 5 minutes.
- Dip each wrapped cherry into the melted chocolate mixture using a toothpick. Return to baking sheet. Repeat with remaining cherries. Cover loosely with plastic wrap and chill until set, about 1 hour.
- When draining cherries in step 2, you can save the juice and use it to make cherry colas.
- Substitute cream for the milk if desired.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 190 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 29 g |
| Cholesterol | 13 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Protein | 1 g |
| Saturated Fat | 5 g |
| Sodium | 36 mg |
| Sugars | 25 g |
| Fat | 8 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |