Chocolate Covered Cherries

I spent many of my childhood summers in Vancouver, BC, where my grandparents lived and had two cherry trees in their back yard. My sister and I would spend hours climbing and sitting in the cherry trees, reading, telling stories, and eating all the fresh cherries that our 8 year old arms could reach.


After combining finely chopped cherries and large chunks of chocolate covered cherries into the vanilla base, I drizzled ghirardelli chocolate into the ice cream. The chocolate froze into hard pieces almost immediately, like high quality Magic Shell.



Commercially made chocolate-covered cherries are made with maraschino cherries. I prefer fresh cherries.