Valentine Chocolate Covered Cherries Recipe

Ingredients:

    * 1 cup powdered sugar
    * 1 cup creamy peanut butter
    * 2 tablespoons butter, softened
    * 4 teaspoons vanilla
    * 48 maraschino cherries with stems
    * 9 ounces semi sweet chocolate
    * 2 tablespoons crisco

Directions:

Start early as these require lots of chilling time. Add together first four ingredients; cream well. Shape 48 3/4 inch balls. Set on waxed paper lined baking sheet. Chill 1 hour. Drain cherries well and pat dry. Flatten balls and carefully wrap around cherries, encasing to base of stem.

If your fingers get sticky, just pat a little powdered sugar on them. Return to baking sheet; chill 3 hours. Melt chocolate with crisco. Hold each cherry by its stem and dip into chocolate, covering well. Return again to baking sheet and chill for 2 hours.

Chocolate Covered Cherry Pie

Ingredients:

    * 6 ozs. milk chocolate chips
    * 1 can sweetened condensed milk
    * 2 tablespoons butter
    * 1 teaspoon almond flavouring
    * dash salt
    * 1 can cherry pie filling
    * 1 (9") baked pie shell
    * Maraschino cherries

Directions:

Over medium heat, melt together the chips, milk, butter, almond flavouring and salt. Remove from heat. Add cherry pie filling. Stir and pour into the baked pie shell. Garnish with the maraschino cherries. Serve with whipped topping and chopped nuts.