Yay!  My Christmas cherries have arrived!

For those of you who love liquor chocolates, you have to try Bernard Callebaut brandy cherries!  I, and hordes of others wait all year for these tasty treats.  They are soooooo good!  What it is is a B.C. cherry that has been soaked in brandy and then hand dipped in Callebaut chocolate which is wonderful chocolate.  And I have to confess…I buy huge slabs of it at Whole Foods and lay it out on the chopping board with a big butcher knife in the kitchen and when ever someone walks by they can hack off a chunk.  Yum.  But as good as the chocolate is, their brandy Christmas cherries are even better!  I don’t know what their website is, but if you type Bernard Callebaut into Google it will come up and then click on Seasonal and THEN click on cherries.  They look so pretty too.  The cherries are individually wrapped in pretty red tinfoil with the chocolate covered stem sticking out and are packed in a sort of bronze box tied up with a gold curly ribbon. 

The only reason I can describe the box with such accuracy is because…MY CHRISTMAS CHERRIES JUST ARRIVED!  Yahooeee!  And let me tell you, they are worth the year long wait.  The only thing you have to be careful of is to nibble around the pit.  And also, don’t bite into these babies, because it can be messy.  The brandy can slosh all the way down your arm if you aren’t careful.  You have to either stick the whole thing in your mouth and let the chocolate get soft and smooth in your mouth until the whole thing caves in and you get that explosion of cherry laced brandy.  Or you can nibble a little hole in the bottom on the chocolate and then sip the brandy out, and when it’s all gone then you can devour the chocolate and cherry inside. 

See!  Now not only have you found out about the most delicious liquor chocolates in the world…but now you have expert advice on how to eat them.  All compliments of yours truly.

Love, Meg
xo

p.s.  Again, it’s important for you to know that I don’t own stock in this company or know anybody who works here.  I just love their brandy Christmas cherries is all.

Posted by Meg Tilly on Thursday, November 29, 2007 in