Hey everyone. It's Sam here from Sugar Spun Run and today I'm showing you how to make these decadent dirty brownies.
If you guys have been following along with the blog, well then first thank you, and second you already probably
caught today's announcement that Zach and I are expecting a baby at the end of November.
We are really excited and have been doing a lot to prepare for this, but I've
also been doing a lot of eating recently. Like a lot of eating. Recently one of my
absolute favorite things to snack on is these dirty brownies. So I thought that
since I was sharing the news of the baby today I would also share one of my current
favorite pregnancy cravings. These dirty brownies are loaded with peanut butter
cups and Oreos. They're super rich, and they are super super good. This is an old
recipe that you might have seen before, but today I'm going to be sharing
how to make it in your own kitchen. Now the first thing you want to do is pre-heat
your oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Next you are going to need 12 tablespoons of melted unsalted butter.
Now to the butter, we are going to add 3/4 cup of natural unsweetened cocoa powder,
and we are also going to add 1 and 2/3 cups of granulated sugar.
You'll want to stir these together until everything is nicely combined.
This is looking pretty good. So we're going to add a tablespoon
of water, and just a teaspoon of vanilla extract. We're also going to be adding
two large eggs plus one large egg yolk. Now you want these to be at room
temperature because we're using melted butter, and we don't want to shock that
butter. We want everything to be room temperature so that our ingredients
combine really nicely. You'll also notice that we're adding the extra yolk.
As I said we're adding those yolk because it's going to help make these brownies nice and fudgy.
Now stir everything together until it's completely combined.
Once you have everything nicely combined,
we're going to set this chocolate mixture aside, and you're going to need a separate medium sized bowl.
We're going to combine 1 and 1/3 cups of all-purpose flour.
1/2 teaspoon of baking powder, and just 1/2 teaspoon of salt.
and just stir everything together until all the dry ingredients are completely combined.
Now at this point we can also go ahead and prep our oreo cookies.
You're going to need a total of 15 cookies for this recipe. Plus a few
extras to eat while you're making this recipe obviously, but for now we're only
going to need 12. You can go ahead and pop these in a ziploc bag and then I
like to use a rolling pin just to smash them up a bit. You want them to broken up into
pieces like bite-sized pieces. You don't want these to be fine crumbs.
Okay. Set those Oreo pieces aside for a minute. Let's head back to our batter. We are
going to now add our flour mixture to our chocolate mixture, and just stir until that's completely combined.
Now let's stir in our broken Oreo pieces
Alright now we can assemble and bake these dirty brownies. So what you're
going to need now is, you're going to need a nine by nine baking pan, and you
can just grease and flour this; but I actually like to lie in mine with
parchment paper. It just makes it easy to remove the brownies from the pan and cut
them once they've cooled. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to put about half of this batter into the baking pan.
And you'll want to spread this evenly into the pan.
Now we need our peanut butter cups. You're going to need 16
full-sized peanut butter cups for this recipe. You want to make sure you unwrap
them, and we're going to arrange them in four rows of four across our first layer
of brownie batter. Now we're going to just gently nestle each peanut butter
cup into that brownie layer so that it's nice and snug in there and mostly
covered with a batter already. Now one thing I like to do is, because these
peanut butter cups can be a little bit fragile and prone to breaking, I like to
pop them in the freezer before I even start making this recipe. It makes them a
little more firm, and a little less likely to break under your fingertips.
Now we're going to cover all of these Reese's Cups with the remaining half of our brownie batter.
And of course you're gonna want to smooth this out so you have a nice even topping.
Remember those three additional cookies that we saved from earlier?
Well now we're just going to use our hands to crumble them over the surface of this brownie batter.
And you can just drop the cookie pieces. I like to kind of
strategically place them just so they look a little bit prettier.
We'll take these brownies over to our 350 degree fahrenheit oven where they're going to
need to bake for about 35 minutes. You'll want to let these dirty brownies cool
in the pan before you dig in, but once you're ready to dig in,
because we used the parchment paper, it's really easy to just lift the brownies out and slice them that way.
Don't these look amazing? You can see that peanut
butter cup in every bite. You've got all of these Oreo cookie pieces and the
brownie itself is nice and rich and fudgy. I really hope you guys enjoy
today's recipe, and if you try this one out please let me know what you think.
Thank you so much for watching and I will see you next time.
I need a bigger bite than that.
These are so good mmm even if you're not pregnant.
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