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National Chocolate Covered Cherry Day

Food · January 3

A day for chocolate covered cherries, the boxed candy with a cherry and sweet liquid center sealed inside a chocolate shell.

National Chocolate Covered Cherry Day falls on Sunday, January 3, 2027. That is 68 days away.

A chocolate covered cherry is a cherry sealed inside a shell of chocolate, usually with a sweet, runny syrup around the fruit. Many come in a box of neat rows, each one in its own paper cup.

The syrup is the curious part. Candy makers often wrap the cherry in a firm sugar fondant, then coat it in chocolate. An enzyme added to the fondant slowly breaks the sugar down, and over days the solid center turns to liquid inside the sealed shell. The candy is made solid and becomes gooey on its own while it sits.

That makes eating one a small decision. Some people put the whole piece in their mouth at once to avoid drips. Others bite carefully and accept the consequences on their fingers. Dark chocolate versions taste sharper against the sweet syrup, while milk chocolate ones lean softer and more like dessert.

Home cooks make a simpler kind by dipping stemmed maraschino cherries, or fresh ones in season, straight into melted chocolate and letting them set on parchment. These skip the liquid center, but the stem gives you a handle, and the fruit stays bright inside.

A box often gets passed around a table, and the paper cups pile up quickly by the end of the evening.

Ways to celebrate

• Share a box of chocolate covered cherries with family or coworkers.
• Try dipping stemmed cherries in melted chocolate at home.
• Compare a dark chocolate version with a milk chocolate one.
• Bite one in half and look at the liquid center.

Dates

All national days on January 3

Also on January 3

• Festival of Sleep Day
• Fruitcake Toss Day
• National Drinking Straw Day

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