Chocolate Dipped Bing Cherries

This recipe features fresh sweet Bing cherries, infused with vanilla, and dipped in dark chocolate. Best if eaten fresh but can be frozen for weeks.

• Preparation Time: 30 mins
• Cooking Time: 5 mins
• Total Time: 35 mins
• Calories: 85 Calories

Ingredients

• 1 cup white sugar
• 8 ounces semisweet chocolate, chopped
• 24 Bing cherries with stems
• 1.5 teaspoons vanilla extract

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Pour sugar into a shallow dish; add 2 drops vanilla at a time in 24 separate places to form lumps of vanilla sugar. Set aside to allow lumps to harden.

Step 2

Meanwhile, carefully pit cherries from the bottom. Make sure stems stay intact.

Step 3

Insert 1 hardened lump sugar into 1 cherry where pit was; repeat with remaining sugar lumps and cherries. Set aside.

Step 4

Place chocolate in a microwave-safe dish; microwave until melted and smooth, stirring every 30 seconds.

Step 5

Dip cherries into melted chocolate, holding cherries by the stems, leaving the very tops undipped; set dipped cherries on waxed paper to dry, then refrigerate to allow sugar lumps to dissolve, 8 hours to overnight.