OLD FASHIONED CHERRY MASH CHOCOLATES

Old Fashioned Cherry Mash Chocolates image

Provided by @MakeItYours

Number Of Ingredients 8

6 squares of chocolate almond bark
1/2 cup crushed cocktail peanuts
2 tbsp peanut butter
1/4 cup butter, softened
1 3/4 cup powdered sugar
1/3 cup finely chopped maraschino cherries, pat them as dry as possible with a paper towel.
2-3 tsp of maraschino cherry juice
24 mini muffin paper liners

Steps:

Put the mini muffin paper liners in a mini muffin pan and set aside.
Line a cookie sheet with wax paper and set aside.
In a small bowl combine the soften butter and powdered sugar, using a hand mixer beat it until it starts to stick together, it will be clumpy, add in the chopped maraschino cherries (make sure you patted them as dry as possible before adding.) If mixture is still clumpy after adding the chopped cherries add a tsp of maraschino cherry juice and mix again, if needed add another teaspoon. You do not want this to be the consistency of frosting, you want to keep it as thick as possible.
Using a cookie scoop or small spoon, scoop cherry mixture onto waxed cookie sheet in tbsp size blobs and put in the freezer for at least one hour.
While they are in the freezer melt the Almond Bark in a microwave safe bowl.. Once it is melted add in crushed peanuts and peanut butter. Mix well.
Drop a small amount of the peanut almond bark mixture into the bottom of each liner, just enough to cover the bottom of the liner.
Break tablespoon cherry drops in half (you only want the cherry centers to be about ½ tbsp) and form it into a circle disk and place it on top of the melted almond bark you put down. Once you have placed all the cherry centers top them with a spoon full of the almond bark mixture and allow them to cool completely and set up before eating.
Can be stored at room temperature for up to 10 days.