What is better than brownies? Brownies with candy bars in them of course!
We just had our version of covid Halloween recently and that left us with waaay too much candy. After the kiddo took his share I put the rest on top of the fridge to keep it out of sight, because otherwise I would put on 20 pounds haha.
Well I had a major sweets craving and sometimes there is nothing better than a good ol chocolate brownie. mmmmm
The crunchy crust and soft gooey center? Yes please!
So like I mentioned above I had an abundance of candy including reeses peanut butter cups and twix bars. The mini versions, which are even more dangerous because the mind tricks you into thinking you can eat more and before you know it you are left with 20 empty wrappers and blacked out! Chocolate hangovers are a real thing people haha.
To use up the candy bars I decided to chop up the peanut butter cups add them to my chocolate brownie mix, which turned out to be a fabulous idea.
Then after I mixed it up, I spread it into the pan.
To finish I topped the batter with twix bars.
Bake it up and oh my it is a beauty!
Hungry yet?!!
Lets get started!
Candy bar Brownies
Ingredients
- 2/3 cup dark cocoa powder
- 3/4 cup flour
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar
- 3/4 cup sea or kosher salt
- 9 mini reeses peanut butter cups, chopped
- 6 mini twix candy bars, chopped
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 cup canola or vegetable oil
- 2 tbsp water
- 3/4 tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325° Then spray a 3 quart baking dish with cooking spray.
- Prep the ingredients
- Combine all the dry ingredients in mixing bowl. flour, sugars, cocoa, and salt.
- In a large mixing bowl whisk the eggs, oil, water, and vanilla.
- Combine the dry to the wet in the large mixing bowl, then add the peanut butter cups. Mix..
- Spread the mix into the baking dish. It will be thick, no worries that is how we get the good ooey gooey brownie.
- Top with the twix bars.
- Bake for 40 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
- Let cool then cut into squares. Eat alone, ala mode, top with whip cream, caramel, hot fudge, or anyway you desire!
- ENJOY!
