Hello Guest Post!
Who is this weird girl on my computer screen, and WHERE IS HOLLY?!
I DONT KNOW! STOP YELLING AT ME AND TURN OFF CAPS LOCK!
I’m Lucie. A teenager, a friend, a sister, a fangirl, a mormon, a baker, a knitter, an embroiderererer, and generally speaking, a person.
(Please excuse the blurriness of all photos!)
Ok, Now that that’s settled, lets bake!
This is a tutorial for my famous brownie balls! Super easy and yummy! These can almost pass for a fake truffle at a fancy party, but are also super fun to make with little kids. There are loads of add-in choices and its basically impossible to mess up so feel free to change whatever you want! This isn’t a recipe so much as it is a technique. You can use any brownie recipe you like, here I’m using a box brownie mix.
I maybe stole that picture from the intern, but whatever! They taste good! (Scroll to the bottom for actual final product picture)
You will need:
- All ingredients for your brownie recipe
- a freezer
- some sort of heating element
- a cookie dough scoop
- 2 6oz bags of chocolate
- 4 oz white chocolate (optional)
- general kitchen supplies
- 1 glass baking pan
- 1 cookie sheet
- Crisco
- parchment paper
- vegetable oil
- Sprinkles (optional)
- Decorating sugar (optional)
- Piping tips and bags (optional)
- Cake pop sticks (optional)
- Cream cheese (optional)
- Peanut butter (optional)
- Icing (optional)
- Chopped nuts (optional)
- Crushed cookies (optional)
Now just follow through with your regular baking procedures. preheat oven, grease pans, mix, measure, sift. Whatever.
#ShortGirlProblems
Ok! Now that your brownies are baked, let them cool so that you can handle them safely.
Look at those beautiful, warm brownies, waiting to be eaten…mmmmm
NO YOU MUST DESTROY THE BROWNIES!!!!!!
Take a fork and drag it through the brownies to break them up, you don’t want any chunks. You can also use a food processor for this.
Ok, now for the reconstruction.
Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
Break out the ice cream scoop and smoosh some of that sticky gooey mess into it.
If it feels too wet, you could have under baked it, add some chopped nuts or crushed cookies. If it is too dry, blend it with some penut butter, Nutella, or icing.
Once you formed all your brownie balls, stick them in the freezer, or if you live in a frozen tundra like me, you can just stick it in a 3 foot pile of snow!
While your brownie balls are setting in the freezer, start melting your chocolate. You can do this over the stove or in the microwave. I’m using a tiny little crock pot. Make sure you add about 1Tbs vegetable oil per cup of chocolate so it will be nice and drizzly. Melt some white chocolate as well for drizzling.
Make sure you melt a LOT of chocolate because each brownie ball picks up a lot!
Time to start dipping!
Fully cover each brownie ball in chocolate, then use a knife or spoon to scrape off excess. Transfer to the baking sheet.
Once you have covered every brownie ball, you can get CRAZY!
You can decorate any way you want, use sprinkles, pipe on pretty designs with white chocolate, cover in decorating sugar, or just throw white chocolate around with reckless abandon!
I chose the last option.
Wait a couple minutes for the brownies to warm up and you’re all done!
These are super easy and rich! I brought these to a party once and I don’t stop hearing about them! Good luck and Happy Baking!
Love,
Lu
Summer Sky 