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
Christina Goding says
What type of frosting would you recommend? Would buttercream or royal icing be ok? I make my own which is why I’m asking! Hubby will LOOOVE these.
I would use a chocolate buttercream!
Mary Jacobs says
I made these yesterday, and they turned out great. I used a 9″x13″ brownie recipe, almost a full can of frosting, and got about 5 dozen truffles out of it. I think they’re better with dark chocolate though!
Ashley says
I don’t know if this was answered yet, but I was curious for those who haven’t made cake pops before what would the consistency be considered?
That is *such* a good question, Ashley, and so hard to answer! So start off with less frosting rather than more and once you have added it to your brownie and try making a ball. It should be easy to put together and not crumbly. You don’t want to add so much frosting that it is all sticky. And you can always look up a cake pop video on YouTube to get a visual.
Maureen says
I would tend to leave the stems on the cherries. 1) to keep the juice in them and 2) to dip the brownie in the chocolate. It make it more rustic, just me.
Gayla says
I was wanting to make these as a christmas gift, and was wondering if i could freeze them after they are made so they may last longer when given away.
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.
Kitty says
Could you use glazed cherries for this? And would they be alcohol soakable meaning the cherries?
I haven’t dried it with glazed cherries or the alcohol soaked ones, but if you try it let me know!
Esther says
Thank you for the recipe!
I made these for a cookie exchange. I found mixing the brownies and frosting with a Dough Blender took care of the brownie “crunchy bits.” I used Hershey Kisses with Cherry Cordial Creme instead of maraschino cherries or cherry filling. I ran out of chocolate almond bark so I used vanilla bark too, made for a nice contrast in color. I think they turned out great and hopefully everyone loves them!
Alina says
How many does this make?
Two dozen
Chantal says
I am making these for Christmas thanks for the recipe
I hope you love them Chantal!
Amy says
Tried making with a Betty Crocker brownie mix and Pillsbury creamy frosting
The dough was completely impossible to work with.
I’m really sorry these didn’t work for you. In general when making truffles, it helps to start with a little bit of frosting and then add more as you go until you get a consistency that is easy to form into balls.