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Chocolate Covered Cherry Brownie Bombs

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posted: 10/30/17

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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!

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!

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}.

These Chocolate Covered Cherry Brownie Bombs can be made from scratch or easy with a box mix!

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.

These Chocolate Covered Cherry Brownie Bombs have to be part of your life!
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!
4.83 from 28 votes

Chocolate Covered Cherry Brownie Bombs

Serves: 24 brownie bombs
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These Chocolate Covered Cherry Brownie Bombs are delicious bites of brownie surrounding cherries and then dipped in chocolate!

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

Either cherry pie filling or maraschino cherries can be used. Please note that the maraschino cherries are a lot easier to work with, but they do leak once inside the brownie bombs.
A NOTE ON FREEZING: 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.
Author: Lisa Longley
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!

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  1. corrina byers says

    ive made those fantastic treats a few times,, little hint,, when using maraschino cherries,, make sure they are well drained, i give each cherry a little squeeze it helps take out the juice inside of them,, then lay them out and let them dry for about a half hour,, they dont leak in the centers of the bombs after they are made

  2. tracy says

    can i use cake mix in stead of brownies?

    • Lisa Longley says

      Like Cake Pop Cherry Bombs? I can’t think of why it wouldn’t work.

  3. Sandra says

    Thank you for the Jump To Recipe button,I am usually in a hurry to read ingredients and sadly to have time to read the post. So sorry that people feel the need to be rude, you didn’t deserve that. My question is, how do you think frozen cherries would work, (thawed of course).
    Have a blessed day and thank you for sharing, the recipe sounds delish.

    • Lisa Longley says

      I think they would work fine, but I would make sure to really pat them dry. Thank you for your kind words!

  4. Goldie says

    How badly do the cherries leak ? Making truffles for my granddaughters wedding and won’t make them if they are too leaky. Honest opinion please

    • Lisa Longley says

      You can see from my photos that mine are not overly leaky. You can see there is a small drop of juice on one in the photo. There will be some leaking, without a doubt. The more you dry the maraschino cherries the better it will go. But they aren’t going to leak in a messy over the top way.

  5. Ginni Sadler says

    Can’t wait to try them. My husband loves chocolate covered cherries and I am going to surprise him with both this Christmas. Homemade.

    • Lisa Longley says

      I hope he loves them, Ginni!

  6. Rebecca says

    Tried scrolling through comments but there are a lot of POSITIVE comments!! Can I make these ahead of time freeze then thaw and dip when ready? Or will that affect the texture? Want to get a jump start on Christmas Baking but not too early. Thank you

    • Lisa Longley says

      You can, but you are going to have let them thaw a little. Otherwise when you go to dip them, they will thaw, expand, and crack the chocolate coating.

  7. Pamela G says

    4 stars
    Yummy, ultra sweet, but perfect for a Christmas sweets tray!

  8. Sara says

    My mom would love these! Can you think of an alternative to the almond bark? Several people in my family are allergic to almonds. Do you think melted baking chocolate would work?

    • Lisa Longley says

      The great news is that almond bark doesn’t actually have almonds in it! It was named that because its original purpose was to coat almonds.

  9. Debbie says

    I am going to make the cherry bombs. Only different things I am going to do is use sugar free brownie mix. I am diabetic so no or little sugar for me.
    Thanks

    • Lisa Longley says

      I hope you enjoy them!

  10. Sandy says

    How is the ball covered in chocolate? It doesn’t say to mix the almond bark with any chocolate

    • Lisa Longley says

      Almond bark is a chocolate that you melt to dip things in.

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