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.
Recipe Video
Notes
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
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.
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.
I hope he loves them, Ginni!
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
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.
Pamela G says
Yummy, ultra sweet, but perfect for a Christmas sweets tray!
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?
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.
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
I hope you enjoy them!
Sandy says
How is the ball covered in chocolate? It doesn’t say to mix the almond bark with any chocolate
Almond bark is a chocolate that you melt to dip things in.
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Cindy says
How can I make these using frozen pitted cherries?
You would want to thaw them, drain them very well, and pat them dry.
Lisa Trueper says
Could you put a chocolate covered cherry candy inside the brownie ball and then cover with the almond bark?
I would think it would be delicious!
I’m sure you could! I haven’t tried that but it sounds fun!