My Mom's Chocolate Covered Cherries

Every year I try to carry on the tradition of making candy for the Christmas Holidays. This year my attempt turned ugly. I search all over for cherries with stems and had no luck until I hit the local Walmart. The cherries were even organic! How great is that? I followed a recipe similar to one my mother used to make when I was a child. I must have done something wrong, however, because the chocolate that covered these juicy fruit developed bubbles and a white haze. I think it had something to do with "tempering" the chocolate, whatever that means. Oh well, my Christmas Cherries taste good in-spite of their ugliness.

Memorable Chocolate Covered Cherries

I had such fun making chocolate covered cherries this past holiday season. I even created a page on Squidoo about my experience.

Since these cherries would be a wonderful and thoughtful gift for Valentine's Day, I want to share the recipe with you today. Yes, February 14th is a little more than a month away, but these covered cherries need that much time to "age" and become a cordial (another term for friendly and "liqueur")eating pleasure.

There are many recipes for chocolate covered fruit on the web and I looked at most of them. It took forever! If I say so myself, I think that the recipe I used on the Memorable Chocolate Covered Cherry Recipe page on Squidoo is a really good and has all of the information one might need to make this delicious homemade candy for gift giving.

I made the candy and the picture of this chocolate cherry!

Go take a look at it and let me know what you think. You do not have to be a member of Squidoo to leave me a comment on that page. You can leave a comment here, too.

Hey! I have two more Squidoo Lenses!

Have I ever been a busy gal! Have spent so much time on the computer that my husband is beginning to think I don't like him any more!

I am sure I am not the only Squidoo lensmaster who has this problem. Creating pages on this website is just too easy and too much fun. It is also addictive!

The first page was born from my passion for chocolate. It is a page that lists the days in each month that one can celebrate a kind of candy. Now, some candies are missing--like an M&M day, but that is NOT my fault. Days are created when a manufacturer asks for one. (There are instructions on the Squidoo lens on how to get a day).

You can find the candy lens here: Celebrate Your Favorite Candy

Below are two banners you can click to find some of the yummiest candies that can be found on the web!

My other lens is one that might be called my "Valentine's Day" page. It is called Show Your Love

Visitors can submit websites, flickr photos, YouTube videos, and so on...that shows their love for someone or something. I have put some of my favorite links there as well. Go check it out and submit something--maybe your favorite poem?