GhostBusters Halloween Brownies Recipe

Hola Amigos! This is my last Halloween recipe for the season! and how appropriate to end this season of spook with a sweet note to start our week! The first dessert recipe I posted when I started blogging was one for Christmas Brownies, today to close my 1st year of blogging I'm posting another brownie one.

This particular brownies were supposed to be a dirt cake, but I changed my mind at the last minute and made something a little more practical for the kids and hubs to take to work, so they are little bonbon  like brownies dusted in sugar, to give them that ghostly appearance! BOO!

You will get at least 2 dozen of these tasty ghost busters and they are soft gooey with a hint of saltiness inside! It's hard to have just one.

This is a super easy recipe and in no time  you would be enjoying your own. I like the fact that they are not your usual 'out of the box" brownies! An extra personal touch always makes food taste batter.

Thank you for visiting the blog today! I hope you had a fun season with treats, drinks, main dishes and a few tricks as well to bring magic to your home!

Remember my friends, everything tastes better with a Pinch of Love! Have a healthy and productive week!

Besitos,

Lizy

Ghostbusters Halloween Brownies

Ingredients:

1 Bag (10.25 oz) Brownie Mix

1 Cup Instant Oatmeal ( I used Brown Sugar and Maple)

1/2 Stick Butter Melted

3/4 Cup Condensed Milk

1/2 tbsp  Pumpkin Pie Spice

1/4 Cup Salted Peanuts

M&M's or Reeses Pieces

Chocolate Chips

Powder Sugar

Directions:

Heat Oven at 350 degrees,

Grease an 8x8 baking pan. In a separate container mix oatmeal and butter. Add and spread this mix at the bottom of your pan, covering it entirely, Pour condensed milk on top of the oatmeal followed by M&M's and peanuts. Prepare you brownie mix according to instructions and add 1/2 tbsp  of pumpkin pie spice to give it a little seasonal flavor. 

Pour the mix on the prepared pan and top the brownie mix with chocolate chips.

Bake according to instructions , right around 18-20 minutes or until a toothpick comes semi-clean. Remove from oven and let it cool down a little. At this point you could make a dirt cake or take ice cream scoop amounts out and make balls with your hands. Finish them with a touch of powdered sugar if you want. Enjoy!

Prep Time 10 minutes                                Bake Time 18-20                 Serves 24 little balls

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Pumpkin Brownies Halloween Recipe

Hola Amigos! If you follow me on FB you know I got a little help from my friends to get me through what I call a seasonal blogger dilemma. For a while I was seriously considering going into hibernation, closing shop, sort of speak through the Fall and then wake up and join the living on Winter time..odd I know, but here is why:  I couldn't figure out what to blog about because we all know this is Pumpkin Season and I Hate Pumpkins, with Passion!!!

Pumpkins, Squash, Gourds, Sweet Potatoes, Yams...you name it! If it's orange and it's not a carrot I don't like it!. Believe me, I've tried, very hard, but a single bite won't go down my throat.
I don't cook them, I don't know how to cook them and never been interested in them until this Fall, when the entire bloggy community is going head over hills over pumpkins and since now I'm blogging...well what to do!

I got a lot of good suggestions. This was among them, recipe and all courtesy of Paula D. Wilson, one of my FB readers. She promised me I would not be able to taste the pumpkin in these brownies and I thought.....what do I have to lose!

Well, Shut The Front Door!!!! They are amazing! and No Pumpkin Flavor!!! To the point that my little one who can't stand pumpkins either ate the first one and then I was just waiting for the other shoe to drop, but nothing...he loved them!

They are soft, fudgy and so chocolaty! I followed the recipe to the T...well there are only 2 ingredients as you probably know. Just added some chocolate chips and M&M's as I do with all my brownies! Oh My!!!
Just grab the milk and keep them coming!

Decorate them with seasonal candy, more fudge, caramel, peanuts or marshmallows!!! They are good!

I want to thank Paula for her help and for sharing her recipe with me and let me try some pumpkin without really tasting it!!! how great is that?

Thank you for visiting the blog today! Every Thursday on FB I'm having a Thankful Thursday as a way of thanking my readers and fellow bloggers for their support. If you are a small blog, you are just starting as a blogger, you are an artist, you are a reader with a great recipe, Comment on this post leaving me a link to your blog,  contact me and send me your recipe and I will try it and post it here on my blog giving you the credit you deserve. You don't need to be a blogger to do this, just email me or PM me on FB or G+.

Have a great day and keep in mind friends...everything tastes better with a Pinch of Love and a little help from your friends!

 Besitos,

Lizy

Pumpkin Brownies

Ingredients:

1 Box Brownies (18 -20oz) I used Ghirardelli's Ultimate Brownie Mix

1 can (15 oz) Pumpkin Puree

M&M's candy (optional)

Chocolate Chips (optional)

Seasonal Candy (optional)

Directions:

Mix together Brownie Mix (no eggs, no oil, no water) Just the powder with the Pumpkin Puree. It's going to be a thick mix. Pour it into a 13x9 baking dish and bake for 18-24 minutes at 350F or until a toothpick in the middle comes out clean.

Let it cool, cut in squares and decorate the brownies any way you like it. Enjoy!

Prep Time: 3 minutes                                                                  Baking Time 18-24 Minutes                          

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Oreo & Cookie Dough Brownies Recipe

Hola Amigos! A few days ago looking for tips on how to bake the best brownies and  I found  a lot of good recipes but one site talked about the criteria of a good brownie,  taste, level of difficulty and creativity. I agree, I like my brownies tasty, easy to bake and with a twist. That's how I came up with this recipe, which is nothing but a combination of all the good things I like in a brownie, in just one batch.
I like Original brownies...nothing but chocolate and more chocolate! Heated up with a scoop of vanilla ice cream..yum! My element of creativity, a layer of Trader Joe's Cocoa Almond Spread! I love that stuff...do I dare say, more than Nutella?..please don't hate me now, lol

My hubs likes his frozen, this is his batch, topped with a white chocolate pudding glaze (lots of it) to go along with the white chocolate M&M's in every bite of the brownie!

The kids like their with the works, and I mean "the works" mini oreos, melted chocolate and caramel and more M&M goodness! Pass the milk!

So as you can see..you can make your whole family happy with only one batch of brownies by adding a few ingredients and a Pinch of Love,  turning your everyday brownie into the best brownies ever!

Besitos,

Lizy

Oreo Cookie Dough Brownies
Ingredients
1 Box (18oz) Ghirardelli Triple Fudge Brownie Mix
1 1/2 Pound Chocolate chip Cookie Dough
1/2 Cup Almond Cocoa Butter or Nutella
1 Box (15.3 oz) Oreo Double Stuff Heads and Tails (or your favorite)
For Toppings
Mini Oreo Cookies
Caramel Topping
Philadelphia Dark Chocolate Snack Delights (melted) 
White Chocolate Instant pudding mix
Directions
Preheat oven at 350F. Line a 9x13 pan with parchment paper. Spray with non stick spray or oil. 
Lay your cookie dough on the parchment paper shaping it into the baking pan. 
Spread the Cocoa Butter or Nutella on the cookie dough, this would be the "cement' for the Oreo Cookie rows to come. 
Place Oreo cookies on rows on top of the Cocoa Butter. About 5 per row until your baking pan is covered with the Oreo cookies.
Drop your M&M's trying to fill in the Oreo gaps with the candy. 
Prepare the box brownie mix according to the instructions on the box.
Pour in your mold and bake for 40-45 minutes, until your toothpick comes out clean
Remove from oven and once your brownies have cooled, lift  the entire batch from the pan  by the parchment paper and cut into squares. Decorate and enjoy. 

Prep time:30 minutes    Baking time: 40-45 minutes (or baking time in your brownie mix box)  
Serving 16-30

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