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
Steph says
These look SO YUMMY! I can’t wait to make these!
Thanks Steph!
Parrish (Life With The Crust Cut Off) says
This looks amazing!! I love it!! I would love to invite you to link it up at our new party Lovely Ladies Linky where you link up once and get seen on 6 blogs!! Link up starts Wednesdays! http://www.lifewiththecrustcutoff.com/lovely-ladies-link-up-link-up-1/
Hope to see you there :)
Parrish @ Life With The Crust Cut Off
Thank you so much!
Chantel says
Oh amazing! Do you know how much one batch makes?
Good question Chantel! It depends on how big you make them, but I got about 18 out of one batch :)
Chantel says
Ok awesome! Thank you. Last question, could I technically do some milk chocolate and some dark chocolate? Have you tried that?
Chantel says
Or maybe use cherry frosti g instead of chocolate?
I haven’t tried that, Chantel, but I’d love to hear how it goes!
Erica says
I may have missed it, since I was kinda busy wiping the drool off my chin. But how many does a batch make? I need to make sure there are at least a few left for my gift baskets after I stuff my face with them :) Thanks, and keep up the great work!
It depends on how big you make them, but I got about 18 out of one batch. Enjoy!
Beverly says
I was wondering could I use maraschino cherries instead of the cherry pie filling?
Thanks!
Yes! I think that would be fine Beverly. And actually, when I make this again, I will probably use those since it won’t be as messy :)
Meghan @ The Tasty Fork says
Chocolate = GOOD
Cherries = I’m gonna get in my daily fruit serving!
Brownie = Real GOOOOOOOOD
All of that equals a total flavor bomb in my mouth! (Oh gosh, I sound like Guy Ferrari. #notcool!)
Tom says
These look amazing and I’m going to make them for our group at work. Just curious though… when you make the brownies… which works better, the cake recipe or chewy one? I guess that’s a 1 egg or 2 question. :D
Excellent question Tom, I don’t remember which I used . . . here’s what it is going to effect, the amount of frosting to you need to add when you roll them. If you go with super fudgey, less frosting. If you go with cakey, more frosting. Make sense?