Hershey's Kisses-Holiday Flavors

Both the mint and the cherry cordial ones are so nice. He hates Hersheys anything, but loves these. Go figure   Now he's already depressed they won't be around after Christmas and wants us to stock up on them before they're gone.

you all can keep all those oddly-flavoured Hershey's kisses to yourselves.

gimme the good ol' fashioned original ones any day AND a box of Brach's chocolate-covered cherries.

oh, man oh man!  i have yet to find those here or York Peppermint patties for that matter.

Both the mint and the cherry cordial ones are so nice. He hates Hersheys anything, but loves these. Go figure   Now he's already depressed they won't be around after Christmas and wants us to stock up on them before they're gone.

I'm the same though. I almost bought the mint ones but didn't want to go overboard. I'll save that for when we have people over for Christmas with my grandfather in 2 weeks. 

So you're saying I won't be able to find any chocolate covered cherries in Scotland, or just the Brachs? 
I had the biggest craving for chocolate covered cherries the other day (it just came outta no where!!!) and since I'm still in the US and so I picked some up.  It was definitely heaven.

You know though, if you can't get regular chocolate covered cherries in the UK, but you can get marishino cherries and you're feeling ambitious, I have an absolutely great recipe for chocolate covered cherries, that I can dig out for you.  The outside stays hard, but the inside turns liquid, just like the candies in the store. I made about 100 chocolate covered cherries one year for Christmas and so many people enjoyed them that I only got to eat about 3 of them!   

So you're saying I won't be able to find any chocolate covered cherries in Scotland, or just the Brachs? 
I had the biggest craving for chocolate covered cherries the other day (it just came outta no where!!!) and since I'm still in the US and so I picked some up.  It was definitely heaven.

You know though, if you can't get regular chocolate covered cherries in the UK, but you can get marishino cherries and you're feeling ambitious, I have an absolutely great recipe for chocolate covered cherries, that I can dig out for you.  The outside stays hard, but the inside turns liquid, just like the candies in the store. I made about 100 chocolate covered cherries one year for Christmas and so many people enjoyed them that I only got to eat about 3 of them!   

I've been here nearly 6 years and have yet to find chocolate covered cherries that are marischino and the centre is liquid.

Ooooo, do share such a recipe!  I'd go to any lengths to make and eat these!

I miss them every year about this time.

Okay, I'll try and dig it out for you tomorrow.  I'm in the middle of packing for my move over, so hopefully it hasn't disappeared too far away!  I am almost positive I know where it is though. 

I've been here nearly 6 years and have yet to find chocolate covered cherries that are marischino and the centre is liquid.

Next time you're in town, try Lidl... i bought some the other day!  The liquid inside was kirsch.

I prefer the choc cherries that have the white creamy sort of stuff inside surrounding the cherry... i've not seen those in donks! 

We picked up some of the Holiday Kisses the other day. DH is in love with the cherry cordial and the mint ones. So yum!

Dh & I bought some of the Hershey Kisses Cherry Cordial while we were home we havent tried them yet I probably will today though.    

I think I'm going to make some of those thumbprint cookies with the Kisses, but I want a recipe that doesn't have peanut butter in them. I think it'll be good to have some different flavours going.  I've searched and think I've found a recipe that'll work. I found some that have the kisses on the inside of the cookie. I might try that too, I'm not sure...

My son loves the cherry cordial ones but then again he loves anything cherry including chocolate covered cherries, which I've always found to be way too sweet. I guess I'm a Hershey's Kisses purist. Then again I do like the Kisses with almonds.

I just had several of the Hersheys Cherry Cordial Kisses man they are sooo heavenly to me at least.    

Ooooo, do share such a recipe!  I'd go to any lengths to make and eat these!

Okay, I couldn't find my recipie amongst my packed boxes (and believe me I searched high and low) but this one is really close:
INGREDIENTS
60 maraschino cherries
3 tablespoons butter, softened
3 tablespoons corn syrup
2 cups sifted confectioners' sugar
1 pound chocolate confectioners' coating (Like the candy melts you find in US craft stores- if you can't find this in the UK, I would suggest about 2 tablespoons of shortening to 2 cups of chocolate chips, to help it melt and coat easily, so you'll roughly need about 1.5 bags, with about 3 tablespoons of shortening, give or take, you may need to play around with it)

DIRECTIONS
Drain cherries and set on paper towels to dry.
In a medium bowl, combine butter and corn syrup until smooth. Stir in confectioners' sugar and knead to form a dough. Chill to stiffen if necessary. Wrap each cherry in about 1 teaspoon of dough. Chill until firm.
Melt confectioners' coating in a heavy saucepan over low heat. Dip each cherry in and place on waxed paper lined sheets. Chill until completely set. Store in an airtight container in a cool place. Best after 1 or 2 weeks.

I have made them in bon-bon molds, so that they looked very much like the storebought, and also made them like truffles, rolled into balls and rolled into cocoa.  They will turn liquid in the middle- Mine, I had to keep in the fridge to prevent them from leaking, but when I wanted them to turn liquid, I would leave them out a room temperature for a few hours and then they would turn liquid.

Hope you like it! 

...or York Peppermint patties for that matter.

You know, I almost bought some York Peppermint Patties as a last-minute afterthought when we were in the US recently, but I didn't.  Now I wish I had & I would have sent them to you if I knew you liked them!

Hersheys kisses...someone here in the UK had them at work awhile back & I had one or two kisses.  You know, when I lived in the US, I used to like them, but here after eating so much Cadburys chocolate, I thought the Hersheys kisses tasted dead nasty!  It didn't even taste like real chocolate to me any more -- rather something more akin to soap.  And I resolved I was not going to buy any when I went to the US & I didn't.

I only like the filled types of Hershey's kisses. I think the regular ones taste way too gritty. That is one thing I love about the UK, you can get Cadbury's chocolate, which is inexpensive, but to get a chocolate as good as that here in the US, you have to pay so much more at Lindt or Godiva!

I don't think I've ever had the filled ones -- just the regular, the Hugs & the nutty ones.  I'll have to try them another time, but I was just so put off by those kisses that someone had at work that I didn't even look at Hersheys kisses when I was in the US this time.