OLD FASHIONED CHERRY MASH CHOCOLATES

My moms favorite candy bar when I was growing up was a Big Cherry or a Cherry Mash. When she was a kid they were called Cherry Olet’s. She loves them but they aren’t something you can commonly find anymore.

Ingredients

6 squares of chocolate almond bark
½ cup crushed cocktail peanuts, I like this to be a heaping half cup.
2 tbsp peanut butter
¼ cup butter, softened
1¾ cup powdered sugar
⅓ cup finely chopped maraschino cherries, pat them as dry as possible with a paper towel.
2-3 tsp of maraschino cherry juice (only if you absolutely need to add it. Try mixing it up without it first. You want the filling to be as thick as possible.)
24 mini muffin paper liners

Instructions

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 the mixture is still clumpy after adding the chopped cherries then add a half tsp of maraschino cherry juice and mix again, if needed add another half teaspoon and so on. 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.

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