Old Fashioned Cherry Mash Chocolates
 
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Absolutely delicious Old Fashioned Cherry Mash Chocolates. A perfect and special treat for the cherry lover in your life. Great for Christmas or Valentine's Day gifts.
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Recipe type: Candy
Serves: 24
Ingredients
  • 6 squares of Chocolate Almond Bark
  • ½ heaping cup crushed cocktail peanuts
  • 2 Tbsp peanut butter
  • ¼ cup butter, softened
  • 1¾ cup powdered sugar
  • ⅓ cup finely chopped maraschino cherries, patted as dry as possible with a paper towel
  • 2-3 tsp of maraschino cherry juice, only if absolutely needed
  • 24 mini muffin paper liners
Instructions
  1. First, line the mini muffin pan with paper liners. Set aside.
  2. Then, line a cookie sheet with wax paper. Set aside.
  3. Next, in a small bowl, combine softened butter and powdered sugar. Using a hand mixer, beat until it starts to stick together. It will be clumpy.
  4. Add patted-dried, chopped maraschino cherries. Mix well. IF the mixture is still clumpy after adding the chopped cherries, add a half tsp of maraschino cherry juice and mix again. If needed, add another half teaspoon and so on. You do not want this to be the consistency of frosting. You want to keep it as thick as possible.
  5. Using a tablespoon-size cookie scoop or small spoon, scoop cherry mixture onto lined cookie sheet an inch apart. Place in freezer for at least one hour.
  6. Next, while cherry drops are freezing, follow the instructions on the package to melt Almond Bark in a microwave-safe bowl. Once melted, add crushed peanuts and peanut butter. Mix well.
  7. Then, drop a small amount of the Almond Bark mixture into the bottom of each liner, just enough to cover the bottom of the liner.
  8. Take cherry drops out of the freezer and break each one in half. (You only want the cherry centers to be about ½ Tbsp). Form the halved drops into a circular disk and place one on top of each Almond Bark mixture already in the pan.
  9. Afterward, top each cherry drop with a spoonful of the Almond Bark mixture.
  10. Allow to cool completely and set up before eating.
  11. Can be stored at room temperature for up to 10 days.
Recipe by Real Life Dinner at https://reallifedinner.com/old-fashioned-cherry-mash-chocolates/