Chocolate Dipped Bing Cherries

Fresh sweet Bing cherries, infused with vanilla and dipped in dark chocolate. Best if eaten fresh but can be frozen for weeks in a covered tin.

• Preparation Time: 2 hr
• Total Time: 2 hr
• Calories: 85 Calories

Ingredients

• 1 cup white sugar
• 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract
• 8 ounces semisweet chocolate, chopped
• 24 Bing cherries with stems

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

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.

Step 2

Pit the cherries carefully from the bottom. I use a small curved dental tool. Make sure the stem stays intact.

Step 3

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.

Step 4

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.