Cherry Cocktails
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Prepare fondant and allow it to cool slightly.
One person should pour the fondant into molds.
Ensure the fondant is not too hot to avoid hardening the creams.
Fill and coat
The second person should plunge cherries into the center of the molds before the fondant hardens.
Dip the molded cherries in melted chocolate.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
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What each ingredient does
- Cherries
- Provide the fruit centers that sit inside the fondant shell.
- Chocolate
- Forms a crisp coating over the molded cherries.
- Fondant
- Forms a sweet, soft shell around the cherry centers as it sets.
The step that matters
Plunge cherries before the fondant hardens. Fondant sets as it cools, so cherries must go into the center of the molds while it is still soft. If it firms first, the cherries will not sit properly in the shell.
“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.
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