Name: Chocolate Cherry Bombe
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 3 hr (includes freezing)
Yield: Makes 8 to 10 servings
Ingredients: 3/4 cup walnuts (2 1/2 ounces), toasted, cooled, and chopped; 3/4 cup lightly crushed chocolate wafer cookies; 3 pints cherry or cherry vanilla ice cream, softened slightly; 1 pint chocolate ice cream, softened slightly; 6 ounces bittersweet chocolate (no more than 60% cacao), finely chopped; 1/2 stick unsalted butter, cut into pieces; 1/4 cup vegetable oil; 1 maraschino cherry with stem; a 2- to 2 1/2-quart bowl (about 8 inches in diameter)

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Chocolate Cherry BombeStephanie Foley

With its mischievous cherry-stem fuse and sleek chocolate shell, this ice cream bombe should definitely get the fireworks started at your Fourth of July cookout. Cut into the bombe and you'll see cherry ice cream dotted with crisp chocolate wafer cookies and toasty walnuts. Look even further and you'll find the gunpowder—er, a center of chocolate ice cream.

Cooks' note:

Bombe keeps, loosely covered with plastic wrap, 1 week.

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