Halloween Leftovers
Halloween is over and we have some leftover candy tempting us. My mom showed me a neat concept: take the candy, chop it up, and bake it into the brownies. They look like regular brownies, but they have some secrets. Your coworkers will love them.You have to think about the flavor combinations when you get ready to bake these brownies. Some flavors don't go well with chocolate, but I doubt anyone will complain if you make multiple batches.
First you need a good brownie recipe. This one is an mash of Alton Brown's Good Ole' Fudge Brownies and a few other recipes I've tried in the past. I like this because you don't have to labor over melted chocolate, and the cocoa grants the brownies a rich chocolate flavor. Then you need some candy. We've done some experimenting in the past, and our tasters have preferred mint, chocolate, caramel, and peanutty flavors the most.
Because the candy is not mixed with the batter, the flavors do not wander. This allows you to set up quadrants and experiment with multiple flavors in one batch. I decided to try Nerds, and surprisingly, they are excellent. You can't see them, but they still have a little crunch, and a burst of orange flavor - it compliments the chocolate very well.
Leftover Brownies
1 1/3 Cups Dutch Processes Cocoa powder
2/3 Cup Cake flour
3/4 Teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon Salt
4 Large Eggs
1 Tablespoon Vanilla extract
1 cup Sugar
1 cup Brown sugar
2 sticks melted unsalted butter
Preheat the oven to 350°F. Prepare an 8-inch aluminum baking pan (make a sling with tin foil, then spray with nonstick spray)
Add the dry ingredients together and whisk to combine (Cocoa, flour, baking powder, salt)
Whisk the eggs in a large bowl until they start to lighten and froth. Whisk in the vanilla extract, then add the sugars and whisk to combine. Next you are going to add the melted butter and dry ingredients in three alternating steps. Add the butter first. At some point the whisk is not going to move the batter very well, so have a good spatula ready. When you add the dry ingredients, mix it very slowly, otherwise, a plume of cocoa powder will explode into the air and cause a sneezing fit.
Pour the half the batter into the prepared pan. Arrange the candy in the batter, then carefully drop and spread the rest of the batter over the candy. After baking this, I would recommend using more Nerds. The Milky Way and Kit Kat layers came out ok. The KitKat was weird, the wafer consistency had an off feel on the tongue, so I would nor recommend them. Andes mints are ridiculously good in these browniesBake for 50 to 60 minutes. Test with a toothpick, but check to see where you stab it (there may be melted chocolate messing with your results). Mine were done at 50 minutes
Remove the pan and let it cool. When they have set for 10 minutes, use the tinfoil to lift the brownies out of the pan.
low quality images from my iPhone
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