Drunken cherry candies are very popular candies that you can make yourself at home. Read how to do this in a step-by-step recipe with a photo. Video recipe.
For those who like to conjure in the kitchen, for fans of chocolate, sweets and goodies, I suggest trying to make delicious homemade sweets Drunk Cherry. Making chocolates is a real confectionery art that can captivate you that you will not notice how time flies, getting aesthetic pleasure from the process of culinary creation. And for a creative person, this recipe will turn into a real "chocolate hobby".
Making chocolates at home has several advantages. First, you use a high-quality alcoholic drink: rum, cognac, liqueur, whiskey … And the one that you like the most. Secondly, for a children's party, such sweets can be made with cherry or other juice. Thirdly, you can take any chocolate for sweets that you like best. Bitter, brut, black, milk, white will do. You can also cater to the taste of every eater in the family by using several types of chocolate at once and prepare an assortment. Another indisputable advantage of the recipe is that it has no seasonality. Since cherries for the recipe can be taken fresh or frozen, which allows candy to be made at any time of the year. And for Valentine's Day, sweets can be packed in beautiful gift wrapping and presented to your beloved man.
- Calorie content per 100 g - 325 kcal.
- Servings - 7
- Cooking time - 3 hours for soaking cherries in cognac, 2 hours for chocolate hardening
Ingredients:
- Cherries - 7 berries
- Cognac - 100 ml
- Dark chocolate - 100 g
Step-by-step preparation of drunk cherry sweets, recipe with photo:
1. Take quality cherries without spoilage and rot, firm and elastic. Tear off the ponytails and carefully remove the bones with a special device. You can remove the bone with homemade tools using a pin or paper clip.
2. Place the berries in a shallow container and fill them with cognac. Leave them on for 3 hours. If you want the cherries to be more saturated with alcohol, you can soak them in cognac for 10 hours.
3. Break the chocolate into pieces and melt in a water bath.
4. Prepare silicone molds for ice or candy. If there are none, then use the container in which the candies in the box were sold. With a silicone brush, brush the bottom and sides with a generous coat of chocolate. Send the mold to the freezer or refrigerator to set the chocolate well.
5. When the chocolate is completely frozen, place a cherry in each compartment and pour in a little cognac in which they were soaked.
6. Top the cherries with a thick layer of melted chocolate. Send the candy to the refrigerator or to speed up the process in the freezer. When the chocolate is frozen, carefully remove the Drunken Cherries and serve them to the dessert table with freshly brewed coffee or a glass of chilled champagne.
See also a video recipe on how to make Drunk cherry sweets at home.
