This Cherry Ripe balls recipe comes with a warning that your butt size will increase as a result of eating these.
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One Cherry Ripe ball is never enough.
These mouth watering little beauties are great for gifts in a box or jar, or just because [you can’t stop drooling].
Hide in the laundry and eat them all before your kids do.
BellyBelly forum member, Telly Tubby, brought this recipe to attention in 2010, creating an annual mass Cherry Ripe ball hysteria!
Every Christmas since, it seems to find its way to the top of the forum chatter list, and everyone shares the new variations they’ve been experimenting with. Tim Tam, gooey choc peppermint, Boost, Maltesers and more.
Thank goodness we seem to forget these at any other time of year, because my waistline, well… it wouldn’t exist.
If you want to make some drool-worthy Cherry Ripe balls that you’ll be famous for amongst your friends and family, try these.
“OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am inhaling one of these as I type this!!! seriously, make these. And then make another batch to give to everyone else.” — Elocin, BB Forum Member
“Ok ladies, they are ALL GONE!!! I made them YESTERDAY.. my daughter helped herself today and ate an entire small container in her room (i had them in 3 containers), my partner and I have had some and now picking during the day and then my daughter steals the rest AGAIN.. OMG parenting fail but FOOD GENIUS!” — Zarava Flutterby, BB Forum Member
“I made these last year (cherry & mint) as we were hosting Christmas, but the first batch was gone the next day! Did them again and we basically just tried to pretend they weren’t there.” — Teeki
We’ve had some great suggestions for variations to this recipe, which you can read in the forum discussion here.
You can substitute the Cherry Ripe bars for whatever you like. Some members have tried Mint Slice, Crunchie, Choc Peppermint bars (these come out very gooey, I added around half a cup of coconut to try and ‘dry’ it out more!), Mars Bars, Boost bars, Oreo, Tim Tam and more, even mixing a combination of them. You can also finish the balls by dipping them in chocolate to make them even naughtier.
If you don’t have or use the Nice biscuits as per the recipe, you can use something similar like Marie, Arrowroot or Choc Ripple (which are especially good with a peppermint bar substitute). I’ve used all of these different biscuit types and they are all just as yummy.
“Oh dear, these are super yum! I’m going to be 3 sizes bigger after xmas!” — Butterfly Dawn
The Cherry Ripe is an Australian chocolate bar, but I will see if I can find an equivalent you may be able to try. You may be able to replicate the Cherry Ripe by blending up glace cherries, coconut, chocolate and sweetened condensed milk, experimenting as you go. Here are the official ingredients:
Contains: Dark Chocolate (22%), Coconut (20%), Glace Cherries (15%).
Ingredients: Sugar, Coconut, Glace Cherries (Cherries, Sugar, Flavour, Colour (129)), Cocoa Mass, Wheat Glucose Syrup, Sweetened Condensed Milk, Vegetable Fat, Milk Solids, Gelatine, Cocoa Powder, Invert Sugar, Emulsifiers (Soya Lecithin, 476), Cocoa Butter, Flavours, Colours (102, 123), Mineral Salt (500). Dark Chocolate contains Cocoa Solids 38%.
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If you’d like more ideas for delicious Christmas treats, check out our Christmas cupcakes.
I made these yesterday and took some to work to share among friends at morning tea this morning. My reaction and theirs was OMG…these are so delicious. Will definitely be making these yummy little morsels again.
They are so deliciously evil aren’t they? 🙂 We love them too.
Just wondering how long would these last in the fridge if not eatin. I’m thinking of making them for little Christmas gifts thanks
They are really quick and easy to make (and really quick and easy to eat them hehe!) but I am not sure how long they will keep I am afraid. Never really had that problem as everyone seems to inhale them! 🙂 I think you could probably freeze them, keeping them in a sealed container, but maybe do a test batch first to see how they defrost?
Going to try these over the weekend… Surely they would be ok for a week in the fridge…
Delicious! Five star!
I’m going to make these for my daughters first birthday party, thinking of dipping some in dark chocolate and some in pink coloured white chocolate and sticking them on a toothpick on a oasis stand
Oh yum!!! Can we come too? 😀
can you use this recipe with out cocoa?
Can we add rum to this recipe and if so how much would u add
I do not have a food processor, so I crumbed the iscuits in the plastic bag and then just roughly chopped the Cherry Ripe chocs.
It worked really quick and easy. They for Christmas for Cherry Ripe lovers. I am sure they will go over really great. Thank you.
Has anyone made these with rum? if so how much have you added? I want to make some for my dad.
Other rum ball recipes usually use 1-2 TAblespooons or 30ml of rum so I’d imagine it would work the same with this recipe.