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CHERRY MASH CANDY An Old Fashioned Treat for Christmas
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Mar 14, 2025
CHERRY MASH CANDY An Old Fashioned Treat for Christmas Today's Recipe: **Click here to see my recipe blog: https://catherinesplates.com NEW: To purchase my Dessert Cookbook, click link https://www.blurb.com/bookstore/invited/10034701/10feb0fb4a14a171cfaeed6889d6656eab1a0016 *To purchase my cookbook vol 1, click link https://www.blurb.com/b/9452561-catherine-s-plates **To purchase my cookbook vol 2, click here https://www.blurb.com/b/10367334-catherine-s-plates-cookbook ***To purchase my cookbook vol 3, click here https://www.blurb.com/b/11248440-catherine-s-plates-3rd-edition-2022 ***My Amazon StoreFront https://www.amazon.com/shop/catherinesplates (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.) ***Follow me on Social Media Facebook @ https://facebook.com/catherinesplates/ YouTube @ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuvgtfqhHTKI5kymcLKeyxg Pinterest @ https://www.pinterest.com/CatherinesPlates/ TikTok @ https://www.tiktok.com/@catherinesplates Rumble @ https://rumble.com/c/c-1642522
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hello everyone welcome back today we are
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making Cherry Mash this is a delightful
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candy we got my mom in her kitchen today
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so I brought everything to her
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right if y'all don't know this is my mom
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her name is Jerry hello now we're making
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Cherry Mash today and they are
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delightful so we're going to make a
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batch for you guys we're going to start
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right now we have to sift I'm gonna put
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my mom to work oh of course at least
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four and a half cups of powdered sugar
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right I'm going to be measuring it out
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she's going to be sifting we're going to
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be sifting 4 and 1/2 cups of powdered
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sugar I'm just going to roll this down
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now I'm using a half a cup so we're
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going to go in several times I'm going
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to go in kind of overfill a little bit
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take the back edge of my knife I'm just
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going to scrape off the excess from
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there I'm going to put it into our
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sifter and she's going to sift away okay
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and there's another way right here okay
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we're finishing up the last of the
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powdered sugar you can use a whisk which
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we have right here you can go in do it
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like this get all those lumps out of
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there now you can also take your whisk
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add all your powdered sugar to the bowl
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and then go in at it with the Whisk and
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whisk it really good till you get a fine
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consistency which we have right there
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we're going to be adding six tablespoons
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of very soft butter unsalted butter yeah
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this is unsalted butter six tablespoons
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six tablespoons and we're going to put
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it into our powdered sugar now I took
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half of the powdered sugar out and we're
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going to slowly incorporate it back in
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once we start mixing This
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Together there now we're going to flavor
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it with some vanilla extract and almond
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extract and we're going to do half
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teaspoon of each we got to give it some
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flavor see oh my mom's measuring spoons
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here how cool is that they're magnetic
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half a teaspoon either side I guess and
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we'll put in the almond
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extract there we go have to be careful
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with the Almond because it's very strong
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okay well we won't go any more than that
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that's right all right we're going to
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add in some sweetened condensed milk I
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say some cuz the whole jar is not going
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in it's not going in definitely not so
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we're going to so we're going to go in
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three times for three tablespoons of
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this sweetened condensed milk now I'm
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just going to use the lid here to kind
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of scrape off the excess there we don't
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want this too runny nope there we go we
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might have to take the spoon here and
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just get that out all right one that
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looks good just going to there we go I
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guess I'm doing dishes after this huh
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well at least you're loading the
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dishwasher I sure create dishes y'all
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this is three tablespoons of our
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sweetened condensed milk there we go and
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then we can use the other for another
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recipe yep yay sure and we need to put
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in some chopped cherries right so what
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we're going to do is we have a jar it's
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a 10 oz that's right 10 oz jar we're
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going to take a strainer we're going to
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get a bowl CU what we want to do is
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drain the juice into the bowl right cuz
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she's like
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me drink the juice from the jar we're
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fighting over the juice yes but I guess
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I'm in her house you can have it all
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right so we're just going to drain those
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out now these are Marino cherries and
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they don't have the stems on them they
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don't have the stems but if you get a
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jar that does have them you can just
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pick the stems off right cutting board
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we're going to move this for a second
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take some paper towels here and we'll
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put the cherries on them just we can
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kind of drain them off a little bit
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right cuz we don't we don't want any
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excess ju juice on right yeah okay we'll
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save that definitely so here we go yay
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you get me a knife that's good you don't
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get one I don't get a knife all right
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she lost camera time yeah well you know
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how that goes we're going to come back
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as soon as she gets these all chopped up
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and we're looking for like a fine dice
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with them right right got them all
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chopped up MH we're going to take some
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more paper towels
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she said yep and then just we're going
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to dry them off again so what we're
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going to do is add this to our Bowl
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right we have our scraper here too all
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right let's scrape on
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in there we go take our electric hand
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mixer you can do this in a stand mixer
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too if you
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want I have a towel here for a reason
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let you hold that okay now we've got
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that powdered sugar in there you're
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going to want to start your stand mixer
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or your electric hand mixer on a low
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setting and kind of start where your wet
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ingredients are and then kind of blend
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in the powdered sugar while that's
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happening we're going to come in and add
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the the rest that I had pulled out
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earlier so I'm just going to kind of put
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the towel the back end back here here we
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go I only got one beater in my mixer
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here right start off
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slow now as you start incorporating the
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powdered sugar you add more powdered
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sugar we're going to keep an eye on this
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it looks like we might have to add a
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little bit of juice to it it's getting
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kind of dry we still got a lot of
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powdered sugar to add we're going to add
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a tablespoon of that juice there we
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go we've got our cookie Scoops
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yay have cookie scoop with
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travel these are one and a half inch
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we're going to go into our mixture now
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as you can see our mixture came together
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very well I took a spatula at the end
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and kind of pushed it all together to
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get a nice mixture there so it's fluffy
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that we can form right nice and fluffy
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definitely we're going to go in with our
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cookie scoop we're just going to scoop
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along the Inside Edge just scrape it and
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then we're going to place it on our
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sheet pan that we've covered with some
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parchment paper very important to do all
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right I'm going to let my mom do that
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now these sheet pans we going to go into
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the freezer so you want to make sure
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that the size of your sheet pan will fit
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all right I'll let you count them how
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many do this batch make 29 all right we
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have them done we're going to place
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these in the freezer for 1 hour and then
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I can just put
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them she had a plan it's been one hour a
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long
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hour interminable we're going to pull
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these out of the freezer now we got
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gloves on and what we want to do is make
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these all uniform
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you're going to take one place it in
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your hand and then you're going to roll
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into a ball so just kind of form it into
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a nice little round ball and place it
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back on parchment paper there so it's
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nice to have another person in here
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helping out another set of hands you
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know right that's right that's right
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look at that ain't that
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pretty there we go now it's very
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important that we're going to go ahead
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and put these in the freezer for 30
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minutes that'll give us time to get
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everything else ready and then we'll
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pull these out again there you go we're
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going to measure out some dry roasted
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peanuts about 1 and 1/2 cups we're going
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to just put them into our food processor
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here pulse them until we get a fine Chop
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on we're going to put the lid
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on we're just going to
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pulse there we go perfect and that is
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what it looks like now the next step is
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to get our chocolate prepared so we're
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using this right here make your own
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almond bar chocolate flavor and then
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we're also going to be using giradelli
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bittersweet chocolate chips the recipe
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calls for both of these want 10 oz of
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each but this is your recipe so whatever
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chocolate you want as long as you have
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20 oz of it we're just breaking ours up
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just a little bit before we start the
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double boiler method that there's two
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methods that you can melt your chocolate
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you can do the double boiler method
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which is what we're going to do CU
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that's just easier for me now you can
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also do the microwave method if you want
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okay so we're going to go ahead and chop
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it up first before we start our double
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boiler method that way it melts
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better so we've got a medium
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saucepan we filled it about 1/4 of the
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way up with water you don't need very
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much we're just trying to bring this to
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a boil and then we put a Bowl on top of
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the pot that will fit and we're going to
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allow that steam that comes from the
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boiling water to get the bowl nice and
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hot and then we'll add all of our
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chocolate and then we're going to add in
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half a teaspoon of some coconut oil
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that'll help make it nice and glossy and
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smooth make sure that your bowl is kind
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of like a Pyrex bowl or something that
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can resist Heat make sure you use a
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towel or a pot holder to hold your bowl
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in place while your chocolate is melting
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all right we've got a boil going on in
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there so the steam will get our Bowl
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nice and hot we're going to take our
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chocolate we're going to add it
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in and then we're going to take our
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coconut oil and add that and we're going
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to turn down the heat to a low just
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using the towel to hold the bowl then
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we're going to start moving things
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around oh yeah look at that it's already
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melting now at this point I start just
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pushing down with my spatula on the
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chocolate okay this is what we're
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looking for look at that look how smooth
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that is so we pulled our Cherry Mash
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candy out of the freezer we have our
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chocolate that I just melted we're going
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to take a couple of appetizer Forks
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cocktail Forks pickle Forks we're going
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to take it we're going to pierce the
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candy here like that we're going to dunk
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it into the chocolate I'm going to do a
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closeup here in just a second we're
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going to dunk it
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in dribble off any excess look at that
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M we'll place it on back onto the sheet
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pan now I'm just going to take some of
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that and I'm going to fill in where we
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had the hole there there we go just like
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that all right we're going to finish the
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rest of these okay at this stage we're
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going to go ahead and add the crushed
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peanuts and we're just going to stir
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that
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around and then we're going to finish
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dunking these here we go we're going to
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put them back in the freezer until they
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totally set up and if just takes a few
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minutes to bring my mom back over here
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we're going to give these a try okay we
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have someone a plate look what y'all can
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do with them check that
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out yeah here we
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go click
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click m
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you see why this is my favorite from
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childhood that's good mhm that's
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delicious y'all make some thanks for
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coming by and enjoying this recipe with
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my mom in her
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kitchen it was a joy being in here thank
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you all right you guys we'll see y'all
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on the next episode bye bye Merry
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Christmas and Happy New Year to all of
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you
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