It is time again for the “Secret recipe club” reveal! I am sure you all know what the club is about, but for the few of you who still don’t know about it, here goes a brief explanation. Each month you are assigned a participating food blogger to make a recipe from and in turn someone else will be assigned your blog. All you have to do is choose a recipe, make it and blog about it on the specified date. The only rule is to keep it a secret! If you are interested in learning more, or want to join the club, please visit the Secret recipe club website.
This month I got assigned the beautiful and very prolific Carrie’s Sweet Life by Carrie! Carry is very talented! She lives in the Twin Cities and has 2 daughters (just like me) If you like real food and delicious home cooking, you absolutely must visit her site! I went through all her recipes, but I just could not get this one out of my mind. Cherries are among my favourite fruits, they are in season down here and I think that cherry and chocolate is an amazing combo! So I really could not go past it. I can tell you this much… these brownies are fantastic: moist, chocolatey and fruity. Perfect! We all loved them so much that I can’t wait to make another batch! I made a couple of small changes to the original recipe: I only had dark chocolate at home, so I did not use a mix of semisweet or bittersweet chocolate and unsweetened chocolate like Carrie did. Because of that, I also used a little less sugar (1 cup instead of 1 ¼). I really recommend you try these brownies, especially if you are a chocoholic like yours truly!
Thank you Carrie for sharing such a delicious recipe! Enjoy everyone!
Roasted Cherry Brownies
Moist? Check. Chocolatey? Check. Fruity? Check. These Roasted Cherry Brownies have it all!
Ingredients
- 300 gms – 2 cups fresh cherries pitted and halved
- 125 gms – 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 125 gms – 1 cup plus 2 tbsp sugar divided
- 200 gms – 7 oz dark chocolate chopped
- 115 gms – 8 tbsp unsalted butter cut into quarters
- 3 tbsp cocoa powder
- 3 large eggs
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 pinch salt
Instructions
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Put the pitted cherries and 2 tablespoons of the sugar in a small pan and toss well to combine.
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Roast the cherries in a preheated oven at 230°C – 450°F for 10 minutes, or until they begin to release their juices.
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Remove the pan from the oven and reduce the temperature to 175°C – 350°F.
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Line a 23x 23cm – 9x9 inch baking pan with baking paper. To make sure the baking paper covers the full area of the pan, wet it completely and squeeze the water out. This way, it will become pliable and easier to work with.
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In a double boiler, melt the chocolate and butter until smooth. Whisk in the cocoa powder and mix until smooth. Set aside to cool down.
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In a bowl, combine the eggs, the remaining sugar, vanilla and salt and whisk until well combined.
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Add the warm chocolate mixture and stir until incorporated.
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Then add the flour with a wooden spoon until just combined.
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Bake until slightly puffed and a toothpick inserted in the centre comes out with a small amount of sticky crumbs clinging to it (this will take approximately 35 minutes). Let the brownies cool down completely inside the pan (this will take about 2 hours).
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Remove the brownies from the pan and cut into squares as desired.
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Store in an air-tight container.
Oh, these are beautiful! I love cherries and chocolate. I want to make these for sure!
I love the unique spin on these brownies. I would have never thought to roast cherries. I bet it is a combo of sweet and tart! Love it!
Oh my, these look so very tasty!!
Those look wonderful! I wonder what other fruits you could do this with? I see an experiment in my future! Thanks for sharing and I’m happy to be in group C with you.
These look delicious! I love brownies and the addition of cherries just puts these over the top. Great SRC choice!
Yum! I can’t wait for cherries to some on sale so I can try these brownies.
I don’t have much of a sweet tooth, but I make exceptions for brownies. ;=) Adding roasted cherries sounds absolutely heavenly.
The brownie looks soooooo good…!!! Weeks ago I made cupcakes with roasted cherries, and the smell when the cherries are on the oven was really great.
The thought of chocolate and roasted cherry aroma from the oven is making me hungry.
Roasted cherries – what a great idea! It’s so hard to pick out good fruits with the weather I’ve been having here in MA but I can try these!
How amazingly good do these look? Cherries are my very favorite fruit too but never had thought to put them in brownies but I sure will with my next batch.
Looks delicious! Great SRC choice! It was fun to have your blog this time. You have some wonderful recipes and this one is certainly added to that list of delish delights.
WOW! These look to die for! I love brownies. I hope you come by to link to my party- http://atozebracelebrations.com/2013/02/link-party-8.html
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Nancy