If your house is like mine during the holiday season, you’ve got candy. I can resist hard candies and even plain chocolate, but when it comes to chocolate cherries, I’m lost. I can’t leave them alone! Worse than that, it’s genetic. My mother and I and my daughter all have the propensity to over indulge when it comes to chocolate cherries.
What’s your favorite holiday candy?
Blessings!
Sue
(Photograph from Wikipedia.)
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Sue your chocolate dose sound like a liquer? Cherry ripe is dark chocolate bar with cherries mashed into a filling about this long………. what i call regular choc bar. I dont like either and dark choc isn’t favourite of mine but I do love German milk choc & another favourite which isn’t choc is milk bottle’s very soft . Kids stuff!!!!
I don’t know Trish. The chocolates are hollow with a white liquid and a cherry inside. What is a cherry ripe?
Sue would that choc u like be a cherry liquor? My Mum loved them & cherry ripes as well.