As you know, I made the Cherry Cream Cheese Coffee Cake last week, but I tried two other toppings, leaving some extra cherry pie filling I needed to use up. So I searched out some recipes and came across these Oh So Easy Cherry Brownies on Grandma’s Vintage Recipes.
I followed the recipe pretty much to the letter, except I didn’t add the chocolate chips on top. I have to admit, they probably would have been better with the chocolate chips on top as they were kinda blah alone. The cherry pie filling made the consistency more like a brownie-cake than a brownie. Kinda boring. The instructions did include the yumminess of ice cream and cherry topping :)
As pictured above, I took a square of these simple brownies, topped it with a mini scoop of vanilla ice cream (using a cookie dough scooper) and topped it off with a little cherry pie filling. This was divine! The next night, I popped the brownie in the microwave for 15 seconds, then topped it with the ice cream and cherry topping. Yum again!
Unfortunately though, I ran out of cherry pie filling and am fresh out of chocolate syrup, so the cake-like brownies sat. I felt bad for them all alone on the counter, so I cut them into cubes, melted some chocolate almond bark mixed with some bittersweet chips leftover from the Chocolate Chocolate Cupcakes, and dipped away. I used a toothpick to dip them, holding the bottom of the cubes with a spoon, then placing on wax paper to cool. I decorated them with with various toppings and sugars for fun.
I also had some leftover (it’s leftover week LOL!) cream cheese frosting, so I topped a couple of the brownies with it and dipped. See the photos below with the sliced open nugget? Pretty tasty combo. :)
Oh So Easy Cherry Brownies
1 pkg. (21.5 oz) brownie mix
1 cup cherry pie filling
1/4 cup oil
2 eggs
1 1/4 cups chocolate chips (I skipped)
Combine brownie mix, pie filling, oil, and eggs together and mix well. Grease bottom only of a 13″ x 9″ baking pan. Pour batter into pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 to 35 minutes until done. After removing from oven, sprinkle with the chocolate chips and spread when they melt. Cool and cut into squares. To make a tasty and pretty serving, top brownie square with a scoop of vanilla ice cream and a spoonful of the leftover pie filling.
Thanks to Grandma’s Vintage Recipes for this fun recipe :)
OOOH! I love this! And so easy to make.
These all look wonderful!! What a great idea, little brownie nuggets!
I love the dipped brownies. And the frosted dipped brownies look like little petit fours. (spelling?) Great use of leftovers. :)
Oh my goodness….so many yummies here this morning. I can’t pick a favourite but those dipped ones with the secret treasure of cream cheese icing are plucking the strings of my heart!!
amanda, this is such a clever idea to dip brownies in chocolate, will be served as an after-dinner sweets! Lovely!
The brownies with the cherries look so good. Sounds great together and the brownie nuggets are so cute!!!!
My husband would get so fat at your house. But he would be oh so happy! :)
They all look SO good. Great use of the TWD leftovers!!
Goodness! These ALL look so tasty. What a great use of leftovers. Now what I can I do with all my leftover broccoli?
Oh these look so yummy! and cute!
They are so cute and sound delicious. I love the addition of the cherry pie filling.
I haven’t had enough chocolate yet, obviously, because those look fabulous and I am about to drool on my keyboard…
covering those in chocolate is a great idea, especially for the holidays!
and i hadn’t realized that you used a mini scoop of ice cream on the brownie and was wondering about that HUGE cherry! LOL!
jacobit – LMAO about the cherry!
YUM