Chocolate Covered Cherry Cupcakes

Chocolate Covered Cherry Cupcakes

These Chocolate Covered Cherry Cupcakes combine rich chocolate and luscious cherry flavors, making them an elegant and easy dessert for Christmas or Valentine's Day. Made with simple ingredients like cake mix and cherry pie filling, they're a festive treat sure to impress!

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Keyword cake mix cupcakes, cherry dessert recipes, chocolate cherry cupcakes, chocolate-covered cherry recipe, easy Valentine's desserts, festive holiday cupcakes, holiday cupcake ideas

Method Oven

Main Ingredient Grains

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 15

Total Time 25

Servings

Calories 250kcal

Author Kelli Miller

Equipment

Ingredients

1 box Chocolate Cake Mix
3 Eggs
⅓ Cup(s) Oil
1 can Cherry Pie Filling
Cherries with or without stems
1 Cup(s) Chocolate Chips
Powdered Sugar for topping

Instructions

Preheat oven to 400 degrees and line a cupcake pan with liners.
In a large mixing bowl mix by hand your cake mix, eggs, oil, and cherry filling.
Pour batter into cupcake liners, filling them 3/4 of the way full.
Bake for about 15 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
Place cherries on baking sheet lined with wax paper and place in freezer.
Let cupcakes cool completely.
Take your chocolate chips and melt them down in the microwave, using 30 second intervals until completely melted.
Place frozen cherries in chocolate, coating each one completely. Use a fork to shake off excess chocolate and place back on wax paper.
Freeze chocolate covered cherries until hardened.
Sprinkle each cupcake with powdered sugar and place frozen chocolate covered cherries on top.
Serve and enjoy!

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