I’m your Stout ch ch ch ch ch Cherry Bomb!

Hello world I’m your wild girl… filled with boozy cherries and chocolate Guinness stout cake.

I have a massive amount of these homemade boozy cherries I keep trying to use. My best friend’s parents make these every year. They go to a local farm for cherry picking, wash  and manually pit them all, and then begin the secret fermenting process. After a few weeks they have these wonderful moonshine like cherries. Both the juice and the cherries are delicious.

My first batch of Guinness cupcakes were a bit of trouble. I might have overfilled them a bit before putting them in the oven. Overflowing cupcakes were just not cutting it for this party. Rather then Brett and I eating all 24 ruined cupcakes, I decided to get creative and combine these two wonderful things together to make a sort of cake pop.

I crumbled the cupcakes and combined a bit of the boozy cherry juice. I molded it around the boozy cherry and used toothpicks rather than the usual lollipop sticks for my stem. Then I dipped it in lipstick red white chocolate. Meanwhile, I had designed the cherry bomb leafs to act as a label. Once everything was set Brett helped me attach the leafs to the toothpicks with a bit of clear packing tape.

I dyed shredded coconut green for them to sit on top of when displayed and used a bright green tray.

These little bombs reminded me of a German chocolate cake bite. The cherry was a nice surprise to rich dense chocolate stout cake. They were an easy bite size dessert for guests and a great outcome to what started as a terrible disaster.

 

29 Dec This entry was published on December 29, 2013 at 1:53 pm. It’s filed under baking, DigiShots, DIY, food and tagged Baking and Confections, Cake, Cherry, Chocolate, Cook, Cupcake, German chocolate cake, Guinness, Guinness stout cake, Home. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post.