Drunken Cherry Bombs

Need a fun treat for Labor Day weekend that people will love and be impressed that you made? I made these drunken, dunked, and sprinkled cherries for July 4th (which is why they are red, white, and blue!) but you can just change the sprinkle colors to whatever you want. They were a big hit and not hard to do:

1 (10 oz) jar maraschino cherries with stems attached, drained
1/3 cup Fireball whisky (note you can use regular whisky, doesn't have to be cinnamon Fireball)
1/3 cup cake flavored vodka (or other flavor)
1 cup white chocolate chips, or white chocolate candy wafers
sprinkles, sanding sugar, or other decorations

Put drained cherries back in the jar, add whisky and vodka to cover. (note you might need more or less alcohol, make sure the cherries are covered). Soak for at least an hour (I soaked mine overnight), drain (save the alcohol for another use, like drinking it hahahha) and pat dry with a paper towel.

Pour sprinkles into a shallow dish.

Put chips or wafers in a microwavable safe bowl and melt according to package directions. One at a time dip a cherry about 2/3rds of the way into the melted chocolate, and then set in the sprinkles or sanding sugar to coat about half-way up the cherry.

Place on a baking sheet, plate, or platter lined with a piece of parchment paper, refrigerate until firm and ready to serve.

note: I made some with regular whisky, and also some with all vodka - couldn't really tell them apart! My advice is to just soak them in some alcohol so they become 'drunken' hahaha, whatever you have on hand! Also, I made a handful of non-alcohol bombs for the kids and they turned out great too! I did sanding sugar for those and sprinkles for the soaked ones so we could tell them apart - you can see the 2 different ones in the above photo. Oh, and I had a hard time finding stem on cherries so I did ones with no stems by sticking them on a toothpick to dunk them in the chocolate. Tastes the same, altho the stems on looks prettier.

inspired by the recipe found here