These Chocolate Covered Cherry Brownie Bombs are delicious bites of brownie surrounding cherries and then dipped in chocolate! These are the perfect treat to make and give!
You could make these completely from scratch using this delicious mocha fudge brownie recipe and the best chocolate buttercream frosting. Or you can skip a few steps and use a box brownie mix and canned frosting. Either way it will be delicious and tasty! Need another brownie bomb? Make these Mint Creme Brownie Bombs!
THIS POST WAS WRITTEN IN 2013 AND THE PHOTOS AND RECIPE WERE UPDATED IN 2017 . . . . . but my kids could have easily done the same thing yesterday.
Have you ever noticed how creative kids are?
Yesterday as I was cleaning up the epic mess of toys that my entire house has become, it struck me how creative my kids are when they play with toys.
{Okay, full disclosure, the words that came to mind when I pulled a plastic alligator from the trunk of an elephant where something just shy of creative and more along the lines of annoying . . . }
The other day, when I was trying to entertain my kids with some older toys they haven’t seen in a while, I pulled out this little toddler toy . . . you know one of those table type toys that one year olds who are just learning how to walk can stand at and pretend to play on a computer . . . something that my kids are really good at pretending {cough}.
Anyway, they had absolutely no interest in playing with the table toy. Go figure, it’s made for one year olds. So Gavin, in his infinite creativity, pulled the legs off the table, which are kind of hallow, half circle sticks (I realize that made no sense, stay with me) and he started using them with a ball in kind of a field hockey scenario.
Super annoying? (My house was not built for field hockey. There is a reason “field” is in the name of the sport.)
Yes.
Totally creative?
Yes!
CHOCOLATE COVERED CHERRY BROWNIE BOMBS
You know what else is totally creative? Brownie Bombs. They are literally all over the internets in all different flavors. And they are totally amazing. I used them to inspire these Chocolate Covered Cherry Brownie Bombs! These little bombs are a whole lot easier than they look, and they end up looking like these super fancy truffles!
Plus they are cherries, wrapped in brownie, dipped in chocolate . . . so you know, they have that going for them.
Chocolate Covered Cherry Brownie Bombs
Ingredients
- 1 box of brownie mix and the ingredients it takes to make them
- 3/4 cup chocolate frosting
- 15 oz almond bark melted according to package instructions
- 1 can of cherry pie filling or maraschino cherries (see note)
Instructions
- Bake the brownies as directed and let cool completely. Do not overcook the brownies, crunchy brownie bits don’t make for good bombs.
- Crumble the made brownies and mix in about 3/4 a cup of chocolate frosting. If you’ve made cake pops before, you want a similar consistency. You may need to add a little more, but you want to start out on the low side and add more if you need it.
- Once you have it the consistency needed (stays together easily but isn’t too sticky to roll into balls), start with about 1 1/2 TBSP of brownie frosting mixture. (A cookie scoop makes it a lot easier.) Form it into a ball, but then make a hole in the middle that you can drop one cherry from the pie filling into.
- Fold the brownie ball in over the cherry or top with a little more of the brownie/frosting mixture and do your best to seal the cherry in.
- Once you have all your bombs made, pop them in the freezer for about 20 minutes.
- While they are hardening up in the freezer, melt your almond bark. You may need a little more or a little less depending on how heavily you coat the bombs.
- After the 20 minutes, take them out of the freezer and keep them in the refrigerator. Working one bomb at a time, drop it into the melted almond bark, pull it back out, and tap off the excess chocolate.
- Place it on wax paper and wait for it to dry completely.
Notes
Nancy P.@thebittersideofsweet says
Okay yum! I know you did these now but how perfect would these be for a valentines gift in February!
Nancy, you are so right!! I will have to remember to go nuts with it on Pinterest in January, lol!
Debra Powell says
Hi Lisa, may I ask what the almond bark is for and when it’s incorporated? I missed something. These look so scrumptious! Thanks!
I’m sorry Debra! I updated the recipe and missed adding the chocolate bark to the instructions in a way that was more clear. All fixed now.
Jo Dooley says
Do you almond bark or chocolate bark.
It’s called almond bark
Melissa says
Made the CHOCOLATE COVERED CHERRY BROWNIE BOMBS with my grandson and they were delicious… I kept in mind the fact that the cherries would leak so we froze them and they never leaked!
Oh my gosh, what a fun memory for him! I love this!
Graciela Cruz says
yo creo es la cubierta de chocolate, pero ella le dice cubierta de almendra, es su forma de decirlo, quedan muy bien así, saludos.
No hay almendras en el mismo. Utiliza corteza de almendra, un tipo de chocolate que es bueno para mojar.
Cathy Smithmyer says
How did you store them and approximate shelf life please.
Store them in an airtight container for about a week!
Julie @ Julie's Eats & Treats says
I have no creativity either! I wonder if I ever did as a child and where the heck it went! These look AWESOME!
Thanks Julie!! It’s okay if you aren’t creative, because you make the yummiest looking dinners. Can you come and do my menu planning . . . and grocery shopping . . . and cooking . . . ??? :)
Maria says
I’m going to try these with amaretto soaked maraschino cherries!
Mary Stair says
Soak your cherries atleast a week or longer! Drain and let dry. Cordial cherries are tricky. Using a mold is easiest! Take some of the liguid that you soaked the cherries in. Thicken a small amount with powdered sugar! Use small cherries and a tiny bit of liquid in each mold. Chill. spoon a small amount of melted chocolate to seal the bottom. less is better. If liquid seeps out it ruins the seal.
Kate says
Genius.
Jason says
I put the cherries in a salad spinner before i put them in the brownie so they didn’t leak every where. Worked well.
Jessie says
That sounds delicious!
Ashley @ Kitchen Meets Girl says
These look like a chocolate cherry ball of heaven.
Now THAT’s what I should have named them! Lol! Thanks Ashley!
Dorothy @ Crazy for Crust says
Awesome brownie bomb version!!! And the “creativity” sounds like Jordan. :)
Thanks Dorothy!
Patsy Chriscl says
Can you freeze these?
I haven’t tried freezing them, but I would think it would work. I would just flash freeze them for about an hour in a single layer and then move them to an airtight container with paper towels between them.
Lyuba@willcookforsmiles says
Oh, that looks so tasty, Lisa! I cat sit there and pop them all night!
Hahaha!! Thanks Lyuba!!
Heather @ French Press says
these look very dangerous Lisa :)
I know! They come with a warning label :O
Hayley @ The Domestic Rebel says
OMG Lisa, I love these! Chocolate and cherry are seriously one of my favorite combos EVER. Droolingggggg! :)
Thanks Hayley!! BTW, two seconds after posting, I thought, “I hope Hayley reads that as me calling her a creative genius and not as though I was comparing her to a five year old!!” Awwwwwkward! :)
Jen Nikolaus says
How are these legal??! They look AMAZING!!! I was sold just by the name alone – YUM!
Hahahaha! Thanks Jen! Proceed with caution :)
Nicole says
Oh for heaven’s sake! I want about 2 dozen of these right now … just for me ;)
Lol! Right? A quite room, a good movie, and a bowl of these? Heaven. Thanks Nicole!
Samantha @ Five Heart Home says
Chocolate and cherries were made for each other…these look dangerously good! Thanks for the yummy idea… :)
Thanks Samantha! Doesn’t it just make you think of all the great ways to combine them??