Chocolate Covered Cherry Day

Today is Chocolate Covered Cherry Day, a day to take note of one of my favorite childhood treats ...

the chocolate covered cherry cordial.

A cordial is a type of candy which consists of a fruit filling within a chocolate shell.

My personal idea of the perfect chocolate covered cherry is one with an intact pitted stemless fruit suspended in a clear liquid which spills over the tongue when bitten.

My dear late grandma Ida use to keep these around at holidays and I think therein lay the origin of my deep abiding love for them.

Happy Chocolate Covered Cherry Day !