When I saw cherries on sale for $6 a kilo last week, I just grabbed as many of them as I could carry. Last time River and I cooked a feast, we accidentally discovered a recipe that was super easy, indulgent, messy and satisfying (all my favourite things for a dessert to be). We basically opened up each fresh cherry we ate, picked out the stone and shoved a square of organic super dark chocolate in there with a pinch of shredded coconut and chomped the whole juicy mess in one bite. Needless to say, it was a beautiful discovery.
We hosted a feast for our friends a few weeks later, one of whom is extremely allergic to nuts, so when I tried to think of a wholesome but satisfying, vegan, nut-free dessert, something like this seemed like the obvious choice. After looking around for quite a while, unsatisfied with the condensed milk, sugary glace cherries and processed biscuit crumb based recipes on most blogs, I finally found Wholesome Cook's amazing recipe for Homemade Cherry Ripe Bites. Inspired, we took the idea of that recipe and made it our own.