Chocolate Covered Cherries:
This chocolate covered cherries recipe is so easy I seriously considered not even posting it…
However, I receive requests from readers every day who ask if I can post more easy recipes—recipes that can be made without an oven, without a blender or food processor, recipes that don’t take all day to prepare and that don’t require a trip to the health food store for some obscure ingredient.
This is one of those easy recipes!
The recipe is perfect if you have just five minutes and need to come up with a fancy dessert… or if you’re looking for a recipe that takes advantage of cherry season!
The sweet and vibrant cherries make for a stunning final presentation sure to impress your guests—I took about a million photos and had an incredibly difficult time cutting it down to my five favorites. And then I had an equally difficult time stopping myself from eating all the cherries before I could bring them to their destination.
 
Luckily, the recipe makes a big batch.
An excuse to eat more chocolate covered cherries!
Chocolate Covered Cherries
- 1/4 cup cocoa or cacao powder (20g)
- 1 tbsp liquid sweetener, such as pure maple syrup (15g)
- 1/4 cup melted coconut oil (For a coconut-free version, see directions below) (38g)
- fresh cherries, with stems if possible
Chocolate Covered Cherries Recipe: Line a large plate with parchment paper, and set aside. Combine the liquid coconut oil and sweetener, then stir in the cocoa until a thin sauce forms. (If the sauce turns thick, gently heat it for a few seconds until it becomes thin.) Holding the cherries by the stems or with a spoon, swirl each cherry around in the chocolate. Place on the parchment-lined plate, and immediately refrigerate to set the chocolate shell. Due to the melty nature of the coconut oil, these chocolate covered cherries should be refrigerated until ready to serve. (Chocolate sauce makes enough to coat about 110 cherries.) COCONUT-FREE VERSION: Carefully melt 8 oz chocolate chips with 1 tbsp shortening. (Spectrum brand is non-hydrogenated.) Proceed with the directions above, using this chocolate sauce in place of the coconut-based sauce. This version can stay out at room temperature for a longer period of time, but it’s still a good idea to refrigerate since the fruit is perishable.
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I’d love your feedback!
Do you prefer when I post quick and easy recipes with just a few ingredients? Or do you like the more-complicated recipes, such as the muffins, pies, and cakes? I will continue to publish a balance of easier and more-involved recipes but will take your feedback into account when deciding how many of each to post!
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Delicious! I would love to try this with rainier cherries (slightly tarter) and maybe white chocolate or very light milk chocolate to balance out the acidity. These would also be divine dipped in nuts. So many possibilities and lovely pictures. Thanks for sharing!
Hi! I think I like the more complicated cake cupcake recipes. But I also would love to see some more frozen treats like Popsicles, ice cream, maybe even another flavor of dole whip! 😀
Recipes are what draw my attention, not an instructable. Keep doing what you’ve been doing!
Chocolate and cherries is one of the best combinations.. 🙂 irresistibly delicious 🙂
These look fantastic. I get so addicted to cherries in their season! I really love when you post no bake recipes like shakes, smoothies, and ice creams. I’d be ecstatic to see more of those on the blog!
Love the simple recipes!
I prefer the more involved recipes. We are gluten free, dairy free, and low refined sugar and it is very helpful to have so many recipes in one place. I can some up with how to put chocolate on fruit, but I can’t try many different times to get the right proportions of gf flour and sweetener to get a good texture.
I am honestly not a fan of these super simple recipes. I don’t need a recipe to teach me how to dip a cherry into chocolate. It’s self explanatory. I love your muffins, oatmeal, pancake, and all your other recipes though! I actually have your Banana Bread in a Bowl getting all nice and chilly in my refrigerator now.
I personally like shorter and less complicated recipes but that doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy reading the longer ones. I think its important to have a mix of recipe lengths and difficulties and its nice to make a longer recipe every now and then.
These are so adorable! My grandma loves chocolate covered cherries but I never thought I could actually handle making them from scratch! I’ll have to do that for her soon – thanks for posting 🙂 God Bless!