My recent delivery of Lovescool’s Valentine’s Day Champagne Brownies gave me the inspiration to make little bite sized brownies. Her chocolate delivery was so charming and tasty and bite sized. A week after finishing them off, I’m still thinking of them and realizing that they addressed a fundamental rule that I have forgotten to apply to brownies- small is cuter!
The recipe used for these brownies is an epicurious one that I made with my first bar of Green & Black organic chocolate. These turned out fantastic for lovers of the chewy brownie. Every mini brownie bite, when cooked individually like this, is essentially a corner piece from the baking pan- my favorite kind!
Another bonus to making brownie bites like this in muffin pans is that you can individualize the brownies add-ons per brownie. Some can have nuts just as easily as they can be straight up chocolate.
Chewy Brownie Bites
This recipe uses a classic unsweetened chocolate based brownie recipe from epicurious. The only changes are more added vanilla and a change in add-ons and baking time/temp.preheat the oven to 350F.
On the stove top melt 1 cup of butter (two sticks) with 6 oz of chopped unsweetened chocolate and 1/2 tsp of salt. When completely melted, remove from the heat and allow to cool to room temperature.
In a mixer combine 2 cups of sugar with four eggs till well combined and fluffy. Beat in 1 Tbs of vanilla and add the cooled chocolate butter mixture. Finally fold in 1/2 cup of flour into the batter.
Spray the wells of a mini-muffin pan with nonstick spray or use mini cupcake liners. Fill each well 3/4 of the way and push on individual add-ons as desired (nuts, candied fruit, colored sprinkles).
Cook the mini muffin pan for 25 minutes for chewy brownie bites. If using a regular sized muffin pan cook for 30-35 minutes.
Pop out and enjoy!
6 Comments
Oh yum! What did you put in those? I love chewy brownies with extras thrown in.
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Oh yeah… didn’t include that! I did:
- walnuts with bourbon brushed on top of the cooked brownies.
- ones with candied orange peel shoved into the batter.
- some dipped in pomegranate juice right after baking.
- some with pistachio and cherry mixed into the cup of batter.I’ll all about the bits mixed in!
–McAuliflower
Great mixings. I want some!
Green & Black chocolate is amazing, isn’t it?? I just picked up a few bars of the dark chocolate with crystallized ginger and I’m enchanted with it.
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I took a nibble of the bar before melting it and was really surprised by the flavors- it was very green tasting, like young plants. I’m thinking about getting my next bar!
–McAuliflower
I love your site and I just made this wonderful recipe! All I can say is “yummy”! Would you mind if I put the recipe on my website, copying exactly as you have it and giving your site credit? I took my own picture of the brownie bites that I made so I wouldn’t copy your picture. My site is non-profit (and very “amateurish”) and is, basically, just recipes and pictures of the finished products that I have tried. I share it with friends, family, and a recipe board that I frequent. Just let me know and thanks for the great recipe! It’s a keeper:)
reposting with attribution is great Carolinacooker- thanks for asking!
–McAuliflower
Thanks so much!
Here is the link to your great recipe on my site:
