Chocolate Covered Cherry Brownies
What do you get when you combine brownies, cherries, buttercream icing and chocolate chips? Chocolate Covered Cherry Brownies! These homemade brownies are topped with cherry buttercream filling and chocolate ganache creating a decadent dessert everyone will love.
Ingredients
Chewy Brownies
- 1 2/3 cups sugar
- 3/4 1 1/2 sticks butter, melted
- 2 tablespoons water
- 2 large eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 1 1/3 cups flour
- 3/4 cup baking cocoa
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 cup chocolate chips
Cherry Buttercream Icing:
- 1 12 ounce jar CherryMan maraschino cherries
- 3/4 cup butter softened
- 3 cups powdered sugar
- 1 1/2 tablespoon half and half or milk
- 1 1/2 tablespoon maraschino cherry juice
- 1 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
Chocolate Ganache
- 1 cup chocolate chips
- 4 tablespoons butter
Instructions
Brownie Layer:
- Preheat oven to 35o degrees. Line a 13 x 9 baking pan with aluminum foil. Spray with cooking spray.
- Combine sugar, butter, and water in large bowl. Stir in eggs and vanilla.
- In separate bowl, mix together flour, cocoa, baking powder, and salt.
- Gradually stir in flour mixture to sugar mixture. Continue to mix until well combined. Stir in chocolate chips.
- Spread into prepared baking pan. Bake for 20-25 minutes, or until toothpick inserted into center comes out clean.
- Cool completely.
Cherry Buttercream Icing
- Remove cherries from jar. Reserve cherry juice. Chop cherries
- Cream together butter, powdered sugar, half and half, cherry juice, and almond extract in mixing bowl. Add chopped cherries and stir using a spatula.
- Spread cherry icing over brownies.
- Chill in refrigerator for at least 30 minutes.
Chocolate Ganache
- In small microwavable bowl, microwave chocolate and butter uncovered for 30 seconds. Stir and continue to microwave in 15 second increments until chocolate is smooth. Spread evenly over cherry icing.