Chocolate Dipped Bing Cherries

Ingredients

• Servings: 24
• 1 cup white sugar
• 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 8 ounces semisweet chocolate, chopped
• 24 bing cherries with stems

Recipe

Ready Time: 2 hrs


• pour the sugar into a shallow dish. drop two drops of vanilla at a time into the dish in 24 separate places to form lumps of vanilla sugar. set aside to allow the lumps to harden.
• pit the cherries carefully from the bottom. i use a small curved dental tool. make sure the stem stays intact.
• when the lumps of sugar have hardened, insert them into the cherries where the pits were; set aside. melt chocolate in the microwave, stirring every 30 seconds until melted and smooth.
• hold cherries by the stem and dip into the chocolate leaving the very top uncovered. set on waxed paper to dry. refrigerate overnight to allow the sugar lumps to dissolve.