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Peanut Butter Cup Brownie Bites

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Brownie Bites + a mini peanut butter cup = Life Is Good. These little bite-sized treats are awesome! Just enough brownie to suspend the peanut butter cups in place.

Ingredients

  • ¾ cups Butter, Melted
  • ¾ cups White Sugar
  • ¾ cups Brown Sugar
  • 2 teaspoons Vanilla Extract
  • 2 whole Eggs
  • ¾ cups Flour
  • ½ cups Unsweetened Cocoa Powder
  • ½ teaspoons Table Salt
  • 1 bag (12 Oz. Bag) Miniature Peanut Butter Cups (You'll Need About 40 Pieces)

Preparation

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Spray a mini cupcake pan with nonstick spray. In a medium bowl, mix melted butter, sugars and vanilla. Beat in eggs one at a time. Gradually add flour, cocoa, and salt and mix until combined. Fill each cupcake slot slightly more than halfway but not more than 2/3 full. Place an unwrapped peanut butter cup in each slot, pressing it down until it is almost level with the batter. Bake in the preheated oven for 15-18 minutes or until done. Allow the brownie bites to cool for 5 minutes before removing from the cupcake tin. Enjoy!

Notes:

Be sure to remove brownie bites 5 minutes after coming out of the oven. Otherwise, they might cool and stick to the sides, making it difficult to get out. If baking these in a 9×13 pan, your baking time will increase to 25-30 minutes. You can be sure they are close to being done when you can smell them from your oven.

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bmd4me on 6.25.2010

I’m going to be making these for college football tailgating parties this fall. I wonder how many dozen I’ll need to feed the players after the game! That is, assuming my boys to get to them first! HAHA!

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dawnalee on 1.26.2010

My nephew is a big fan of peanut butter and particularly peanut butter cups. Made this yesterday for his 24th birthday. What a hit! He loved them and so did his friends. I made them in the 9 x 13 pan and cut them into squares. Definitely will be making these again for the troops.

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Sharon on 9.19.2010

Let me begin by saying, these are delicious! I found them difficult to work with and the end product wasn’t very pretty to look at. I followed your directions for the first 2 pans, but they were just too difficult to remove and fell apart. I decided with the next batch, to bake the brownies and when I removed them from the oven I inserted the peanut butter cup into the brownie. I let them cool in the pan for about 15 minutes and they released much easier with this method. There was still a little breaking apart of the brownie but I patched them back together and put them in the fridge to continue cooling. Again, these were celicious but I probably won’t make them again.

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Laura on 7.5.2010

I made these yesterday for a 4th of July party and they were a huge it! They didn’t last very long! I’ll probably have to double the recipe from now on!

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duckybutt01 on 6.27.2010

These were a huge hit! Lots of friends have tried the recipe too – they can’t get enough of them either. Thanks for sharing!

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