Chocolate Covered Cherries

7 ingredients
7 steps

Ingredients

  • 2 lb. powdered sugar
  • 1/4 c. butter or margarine
  • 1/8 tsp. salt
  • 3 beaten egg whites
  • 2 small jars maraschino cherries
  • 1 lb. baking chocolate
  • 1/4 lb. paraffin

Directions

  1. 1
    Drain cherries.
  2. 2
    Cream the butter, sugar and salt.
  3. 3
    Add beaten egg whites; knead to mix.
  4. 4
    Pinch a small portion of mixture and form a small ball around a cherry.
  5. 5
    When all the cherries are covered with the sugar-butter mixture, melt the chocolate and paraffin together.
  6. 6
    Dip the balls into the chocolate using hat pin or toothpick; set to drain on waxed paper.
  7. 7
    After all are dipped, use a small spoon to drip chocolate on top to cover toothpick hole.

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