Roast Cherry Dark Chocolate Brownie Sundaes

The cherry season has been nice and long and they are still plentiful and cheap which is good because I recently came across the idea of using them to make roast cherry brownies on Foodie Bride which I just had to try! I always enjoy roasting things because it tends to concentrate and strengthen their flavour and I really liked the sound of hitting the little nuggets of concentrated cherry flavour deep under the surface of chocolate brownies!

Not only are the cherries for the brownies roasted but they are tossed in and roasted in port; how decadent! Once the cherries are roasted you just need to mix them into the brownie batter and bake them as you normally would. Speaking of the brownie batter, I went with a really easy, made from scratch recipe that uses melted dark chocolate for the chocolate flavour.

Chocolate and cherries are a match made in heaven and these irresistible roasted cherry dark chocolate brownies show you just why! As if the brownies were not good enough already but try serving them topped with a scoop of melting vanilla ice cream and a cherry and port sauce and they become absolutely divine!

Roast Cherry Dark Chocolate Brownie Sundaes

Prep Time: 5 minutes Cook Time: 30 minutes Total Time: 35 minutes Servings: 9

Dark chocolate brownies filled with chunks of roasted cherries and served as a sundae topped vanilla ice cream and a cherry port sauce.

ingredients

2 cups cherries, pitted and halved

1/4 cup port

6 ounces dark chocolate (70-75% preferred or bittersweet), coarsely chopped

1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter

3/4 cup all-purpose flour

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

3 large eggs

1 1/3 cup sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

2 cups cherries, pitted and halved

1/4 cup port

1/4 cup sugar

directions

Toss the cherries in the port, place them on a baking sheet in a single layer, roast in a preheated 450F/230C oven for 30 minutes and set aside to cool.

Melt the dark chocolate and butter in a double boiler.

Mix the flour, baking powder and salt.

Mix the eggs, sugar and vanilla extract, mix in the melted chocolate and fold in the flour followed by the cherries.

Pour the mixture into a greased 8x8 inch baking pan and bake in a preheated 350F/180C oven until a toothpick pushed in the center comes out clean, about 15-20 minutes.

Meanwhile, bring the cherries, port and sugar to a boil in a saucepan over medium heat, reduce the heat and simmer until thick and syrupy, about 30-40 minutes.

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