Bittersweet Chocolate Covered Cherries

Total Time: 25 mins Preparation Time: 3 mins Cook Time: 22 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 24
• 2 cups red wine
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• lemon, zest of
• 2 dozen pitted cherries, with stems
• 6 ounces melted bittersweet chocolate

Recipe

• 1 combine the wine, sugar and zest in a small heavy saucepan. bring to a boil.
• 2 add the cherries and simmer for 2 minutes. remove from the heat and let the cherries cool in the pan.
• 3 remove the cherries from the saucepan and drain thoroughly.
• 4 holding each cherry by its stem, dip into the melted bittersweet chocolate.
• 5 place on a baking sheet lined with parchment or wax paper.
• 6 refrigerate until set, about 20 minutes.