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Brownie Bites filled with Peanut Butter

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Is there anything better than a rich and fudgey dark chocolate brownie? How about a salted caramel popcorn brownie?

I had some leftover brownie batter recently and wondered what to do with it. It wasn’t quite enough to fill a baking pan, so I decided to grease up a mini muffin tin and try brownie “bites”. At the last minute I added a dob of salty, crunchy peanut butter to the middle of each one and peanut butter brownie bites were born!

I finished mine off with a dusting of icing sugar, but you could drizzle melted chocolate over them (white chocolate would look good!) or perhaps some salted caramel.

Brownie Bites filled with Peanut Butter

4.50 from 2 votes

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Prep Time: 15

Cook Time: 15

Total Time: 30

Servings:

Author: Swah

Ingredients

125 g soft butter
125 g dark chocolate
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
3/4 cup caster sugar
1/2 cup plain flour
1 tsp salt
1/4 cup peanut butter
Icing sugar to decorate

Instructions

Preheat oven to 180°C. Grease a mini muffin tin with butter.
Melt the butter and chocolate together in the microwave in short bursts on medium.
In a bowl beat the eggs with the sugar and vanilla.
Sift the flour into another bowl and add the salt.
Let the chocolate mixture cool a bit before beating in the egg and sugar mixture.
Fill each mini muffin tin ⅔ full and add approx 1/2 tsp of peanut butter into the centre of each, gently pressing down so the batter covers it.
Bake in the oven for 15-18 minutes or until done. When it’s ready the top should be dried to a pale brown but the middle still slightly gooey.
Allow the brownie bites to cool for 5 minutes before removing from the muffin tin.
Enjoy!

Due to the large amounts of butter, chocolate and eggs in these brownies, these brownies are incredibly rich and heavy and often a little *too* much when eaten in a large slab like in my original recipe. But converting these to mini bite size treats with a nice contrasting salty peanut butter center, they are fast becoming my new favourites!