Triple Sec Chocolate covered cherries!

What you will need:

1 small bottle of Triple sec liquor or Grand mariner 

1 jar of maraschino cherries

butter

marshmallow cream/fluff

powdered sugar

almond extract 

salt 

semi-sweet chocolate chips

1st step: 

Drain cherries, and soak in liquor ( I soaked mine for 2 days in the fridge)

After soaking for desired amount of time drain cherries line a plate or cookie sheet with wax paper and freeze cherries. Make sure your cherries are not touching each other, they will not freeze all the way due to the alcohol.

Second step:

To make the fondant: 

1/3 cup	butter, softened
2 cups	marshmallow cream/fluff
1 tsp	Almond Extract
4 cups	Sifted Powdered Sugar
dash	Salt

Directions:

Cream butter. Beat in marshmallow fluff, and almond extract. Add powdered sugar gradually, mixing well. Turn out the mix onto a board, and knead until smooth, working in more sugar as necessary if mix becomes too sticky, it should be like play dough. Refrigerate for 24 hours.

  

Step 3

Drain cherries very well, then using the kneaded sugar mix, "fondant"---pinching off some of that fondant, wrap each cherry make sure the cherry is completely covered,put on a cookie sheet in freezer for 24 hrs. 

 Step 4

Have to work fast when rolling in choc-mess if they defrost. Melt the chocolate in top of double boiler, over hot, but not boiling water. Dip each wrapped cherry in the melted chocolate and place on waxed paper and refrigerate to harden.

Step 5

ENJOY!!

*For regular chocolate cherries follow same instructions just do not soak in liquor, I like regular ones the best but these were also a big hit!