Merry Cherry Fudge

Total Time: 2 hrs 20 mins Preparation Time: 2 hrs Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• vegetable oil cooking spray
• 36 maraschino cherries, with stems
• 1 (12 ounce) package semisweet chocolate morsels
• 6 (1 ounce) bittersweet chocolate squares, chopped
• 1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
• 1 teaspoon maraschino cherry juice
• 1 cup chopped pecans

Recipe

• 1 lightly coat an 8-inch square pan with cooking spray. set aside. blot cherries dry with paper towels.
• 2 combine chocolates in a heavy saucepan; place over very low heat, and stir constantly until melted and smooth.
• 3 remove from heat, and stir in sweetened condensed milk and cherry juice. stir in pecans.
• 4 smooth mixture into prepared pan. immediately press cherries into fudge, leaving top of each cherry and stem exposed.
• 5 cover and chill fudge 2 hours or until firm.
• 6 cut fudge into 36 squares. store in an airtight container in refrigerator.