These Chocolate Covered Cherry Mini Cakes are incredibly easy to make cupcake versions of the beloved Cherry Cordial Chocolates. A mini bundt pan is used to easily create the cavity for the cherry filling then a simple ganache tops the little cakes.
Chocolate Covered Cherry Mini Cakes
There is something about chocolate covered cherries that just seems a little extra romantic to me. I know the classic heart box of chocolates is the Valentine's standard, but the simple chocolate covered cherry is always sweet & reliable, whereas the sample boxes can give you a rude surprise (I'm not a big fan of cremes).
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Chocolate cake with chocolate frosting is another fave around here, and so is my Nordic Ware Platinum Mini Bundt Pan
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I thought about how the hollow in a mini-bundt could be filled, and a new sort of black forest cake came to mind. A single serve chocolate covered cherry cake. I got to mixing some batter.
Once the chocolate mini bundt cakes were cool, I filled them with cherry pie filling, and topped off with a quick chocolate ganache. I made the chocolate cake from scratch, but by all means a good chocolate cake mix would do just fine for this.
Pressed for time? Get these flavors in my crazy easy Chocolate Cherry Dump Cake.
Ingredients
- Chocolate cake batter prepare according to box directions or use the Chocolate Cherry Cake batter recipe below
- 1 can of cherry pie filling
Easy Chocolate Ganache
- 1 cup bitter or semi- sweet chocolate chopped or chips
- 2 tbs butter
- 1 tbs milk
- **optional whipped cream
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease & flour a mini-bundt pan.
- Prepare cake batter, and fill the pan cavities ¾ full.
- Bake for 18-20 minutes, until pick pulls clean. Then cool a few minutes & remove to rack to finish cooling.
- Fill each mini-bundt cake with cherry pie filling. Focus on getting some cherries in and gently press down, a little will absorb into cake giving you a bit more room to fit more. Fill right up to the top.
- Prepare ganache in microwave: Place the ingredients in microwave safe bowl and zap for 20 seconds, stir. Repeat until smooth but not completely soupy.
- Spoon over each cake, and gently swirl spoon to ensure the whole top is covered.
- Allow to cool a minute or two before serving, or do ahead of time.
- Top with whipped cream & leftover cherry filling if you like.
Notes
Chocolate Cherry Cake Batter
Ingredients
- ¼ cup butter softened
- ¾ cup sugar
- ¼ teaspoon Kosher salt
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- ½ cup low fat buttermilk
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ cup cocoa powder
- 1 cup flour
- 2 tbs cherry juice concentrate
- ⅓ cup finely chopped bitter or semi-sweet chocolate
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350.
- Cream the butter, sugar and salt together.
- Add egg, vanilla & buttermilk. Whisk.
- Add the baking soda, cocoa & flour. Mix well. Then add the cherry concentrate and mix until well blended.
- Fold in the chocolate until evenly distributed.
- Baking time will vary by pan choice.
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Nichol says
Wow, they look amazing. I love chocolate and cherries together!
Donna says
Yep, I am buying some mini bundt pans... I am craving these now! Drooling here!
Donna says
Okay, going to pick up some today. Can't wait to try this!
Tiff @ Babes and Kids says
Mini bundt cakes, how cute! They look mighty tasty too. I think my hubby would be one happy man if I made these for him.
TerriAnn @ Cookies & Clogs says
Cherry pie filling? What a great idea! I hate the 'surprise' fillings as well since I'm pretty picky with my chocolate pairings. I'd much rather get gift certificate and individually pick the pieces myself 🙂
Crystal @ Simply Being Mommy.com says
Adorable! I love that they are mini-sized 🙂
Asma Moury says
Yummy chocolate recipe. Loved it. Thanks for sharing.