Halloween Mini Brownie Bites
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These Halloween mini brownie bites are irresistibly delicious! These 2-bite desserts feature swirls of chocolate frosting, and are decorated for the season. Like these festive squares of Halloween brownies, they’re fun Halloween party treats. Make a batch in 35 minutes.
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🛒 Ingredients
For Mini Brownie Bites
- Butter: Provides the brownie batter with a rich buttery flavor.
- Granulated Sugar: Adds the perfect amount of sweetness.
- Pure Vanilla Extract: Enhances the flavor of the other ingredients while providing a delicious bakery aroma.
- Large Eggs: Helps bind the ingredients together.
- Hershey’s Special Dark Cocoa Powder: For a deep, dark color and rich chocolaty taste.
- Kosher Salt: Balances and brightens the flavor of the brownie batter.
- Baking Powder: A leavening ingredient that allows the brownies to rise in the oven.
- All-Purpose Flour: Provides strength and structure for the brownie batter.
For Chocolate Frosting
- Butter: The rich buttery base for our chocolate frosting.
- Powdered Sugar: An important ingredient for making frosting. It adds the perfect amount of sweetness, thickness and texture.
- Cocoa Powder: Provides a delicious chocolate taste. You can use the same dark cocoa you used for the brownies, or a light colored cocoa like Hershey’s cocoa natural unsweetened.
- Kosher Salt: Balances the flavors of the frosting while tamping down sweetness.
- Heavy Cream: Adds rich delicious moisture so the frosting’s not too thick.
- Pure Vanilla Extract: Enhances the flavor of the other ingredients while also providing a fabulous bakery aroma.
- Halloween Jimmies (sprinkles): For decorating the Halloween mini brownie bites.
Supplies
- Mini Brownie Bites Pan: For baking the small bites.
- Halloween Party Picks: For topping the brownie bites.
- Halloween Candy: Can be used instead of party picks, like pumpkin candy corn.
- Piping Bag & Tip: For piping the frosting. A great alternative is a zip-top bag with one bottom corner snipped off.
📖 Recipe Steps
Make Mini Brownie Bites
Recipe Prep: Preheat oven to 350°F. Generously grease the wells of a 24-cavity mini brownie bites pan with butter. Set it aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine melted butter, sugar and vanilla. Stir to blend well.
- Add in eggs and mix well.
- Add in cocoa powder, salt and baking powder. Mix to combine. Add in the flour. Mix until fully incorporated. The batter should be smooth, but a few small lumps are okay.
- Divide the brownie batter evenly between the wells of the prepared pan.
- Bake for about 15 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the middle of 2 brownies comes out clean. Do not overbake. Allow brownie bites to shed heat in the pan until they can be easily removed. Transfer brownies to a wire rack. Let them cool completely.
🧑🏼🍳 Expert Tip: If the brownies don’t easily slip out of the pan, gently move a thin silicone spatula up and down around the edges of the brownies to help release them from the pan.
🥣 Make the Chocolate Frosting
- In the bowl of a stand mixer with the paddle attachment, beat the butter until light and creamy.
- Add the rest of the ingredients to the bowl. Start beating on low speed, gradually increasing the speed to high. Mix for approximately 2 minutes, or until the chocolate frosting is smooth and fluffy.
- For slightly thinner frosting, add a little more cream. For thicker frosting, add a bit more powdered sugar. The consistency should be thick enough to pipe onto the brownies.
- Transfer the chocolate frosting to a pastry bag with metal tip. Or use a zip-top bag with one corner snipped off.
👻 Decorate Halloween Mini Brownie Bites
- Once the brownie bites have cooled completely, flip the brownie bites upside down so the smaller end is facing up. Pipe on the frosting.
- Sprinkle the frosting with Halloween jimmies.
- Add a Halloween party pick to the top of each brownie bite.
How to Display Halloween Brownie Bites
For a beautiful display, arrange Halloween mini brownie bites on a black cake stand. Set the stand in the middle of the dessert table and surround it with other Halloween treats on small flat trays and in small ramekins. For more treat ideas visit our Halloween category.
👩🏻🍳 Cocoa Powder FAQ
Types of Cocoa Powder for Recipes
If you enjoy baking, it’s best to have two basic types of cocoa powder in your pantry: natural unsweetened and dark/Dutch process. The leavening product required for your recipe will largely determine which type of powder is best to use.
- Natural Unsweetened Cocoa Powder: This type of cocoa powder is non-alkalized. It has an acidic and bitter taste! In the U.S. it’s what most of our grandmothers used, simply because other types were not readily available.
- Dark Cocoa Powder/Dutch-Process: This type of cocoa powder has been alkalized. As the cocoa nibs are processed, an alkaline solution is used to remove that naturally-occurring bitterness and acidity. This results in a darker-colored powder that has a nice mellow flavor. My preference is Hershey’s Special Dark Cocoa.
What kind of cocoa powder for baking?
Use these helpful tips to determine which type of cocoa powder to use in recipes:
- Recipes with baking soda : Use natural unsweetened.
- Recipes with baking powder & baking soda: Natural unsweetened.
- Recipes for baking powder: You can use either type.
- Recipes with no leavening ingredient: You can use either one.
🎃 More Halloween Treats
Add these festive Halloween treats to your dessert table.
- Halloween Rice Krispie Treats
- Peanut Butter Spider Cookies
- Mummy Halloween Pop Tarts
- Halloween Sugar Cookies
- Mummy Hot Dogs
- Halloween Party Food Ideas
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Halloween Mini Brownie Bites
- Total Time: 35 minutes
- Yield: 24 brownie bites 1x
Description
Halloween mini brownie bites are irresistibly delicious. These 2-bite desserts feature swirls of chocolate frosting. Make them in 35 minutes.
Ingredients
For Mini Brownie Bites
- 1/2 cup butter (1 stick), melted
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 2 large eggs, room temperature
- 1/3 cup Hershey’s Special Dark Cocoa (or another Dutch process cocoa)
- 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
For Chocolate Frosting
- 1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened
- 3 1/2 cups powdered sugar
- 1/2 cup Hershey’s Special Dark Cocoa
- 3 tablespoons whipping cream (same as heavy cream)
- 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
- 2 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
For Decorating
- Halloween jimmies/sprinkles
- Halloween party picks for topping the brownie bites (or use Halloween candy like pumpkin candy corn)
Instructions
Make Mini Brownie Bites
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Generously grease a 24-cavity mini-muffin pan with butter. Put it aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine the melted butter, sugar and vanilla. Stir to blend the ingredients together. Add eggs, one by one, mixing well after each addition. Measure the cocoa powder, salt and baking powder and add them to the bowl. Mix to combine. Add the flour and mix until fully incorporated.
- Divide the brownie batter evenly between the holes in the muffin tin.
- Bake for approximately 15 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the middle of two different brownies comes out clean. Do not over-bake!
- Allow the brownie bites to cool in the pan until they can be safely removed and transferred to a wire rack. If the brownies do not easily slip out of the pan, gently move a thin silicone spatula up and down around the edges of the brownies to help release them from the muffin tin.
- Once the brownies have fully cooled, turn the brownies upside down and pipe frosting onto the bottoms. Sprinkle the frosting with Halloween jimmies. Insert a festive party pick into the center of each brownie.
Make Chocolate Frosting
- In the bowl of a stand mixer with the paddle attachment, beat the butter until light and creamy.
- Add the rest of the ingredients to the bowl. Start by beating on low speed, gradually increasing the speed to high. Mix for approximately 2 minutes, or until the chocolate frosting is smooth and fluffy.
- The consistency of the frosting should be pipable. For slightly thinner frosting, add a little more cream. For thicker frosting, add a bit more powdered sugar.
- Transfer the frosting to a pastry bag with metal tip. Or use a zip-top bag with one corner snipped off.
Decorate Mini Brownie Bites
- Once the brownie bites have cooled completely, flip the brownie bites upside down so the smaller end is facing up. Pipe on the frosting.
- Sprinkle the frosting with Halloween jimmies.
- Add a Halloween party pick to the top of each brownie bite.
Equipment
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🧑🏼🍳 Expert Tip: If the brownies don’t easily slip out of the pan, gently move a thin silicone spatula up and down around the edges of the brownies to help release them from the pan.
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 15 minutes
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Bake
- Cuisine: American
Halloween Mini Brownie Bites 👉🏻 Join the Convo
Are you excited to make this recipe? Will it be for a Halloween party, or to share with family and friends at home? Join the conversation in the comments below. I’d love to hear from you.
Genius! These were perfect in a mini muffin pan! No crumbs or messy fingers! I used this for a birthday party with birthday decorations and will make them again and again. P.S. We loved them without frosting, too!
These are perfect for our Halloween party! I know they’re going to be a huge hit with our guests!
We are so looking forward to Halloween! Love all of these recipes, so cute and creative!
These are absolutely adorable! Love the creativity. My kids would have so much fun decorating and eating these brownies.
I’m going to make these with my boys. I don’t know how but they are both so festive with holidays and changing seasons and I never really have been and I don’t bake lol that’s for grandma’s house but I’m feeling hands on this season.
They look fantastic! I bet they taste just as good.
Yesssss, I’m so ready for all things Halloween. This looks delicious too! YUM!
I am so ready for Halloween too! Its my favorite .
Yumm! These are so adorable. I love the little witches and ghosts on top!
Halloweenly indeed.. and love that spooky punch as well .. brownie bites for me anyday..
These are so cute and I love that I could totally just buy brownie bites and decorate them to look fancy! (I am a total short cut taker when it comes to baking! ha!)
This post has me 100% wanting to host a Halloween Party!!!
Such a cute and easy way to make treats for Halloween!
These are so adorable! Going on my Halloween menu!
Oh these look so good! What a fun and tasty treat for Halloween! I can’t believe how quickly it’s come but I’m really looking forward to the cooler weather and the holidays :)
I can’t believe it’s going to be Halloween soon. Gosh, where did this year go so quick? These brownies sound so much fun. My kids would love this.
Those brownie bites are adorable. What a great hit they’d be at Halloween! Whether you’re young or old you certainly can appreciate fun treats such as the brownie bites.
They are the best and a sure fire hit for any party.
Wow how festive this is my grandkids would go nuts over these and love Halloween its such a fun day! I need to make these for them
That is so awesome. Perfect for all ages.
These are the cutest Halloween treats I’ve seen. I’m just not onto spooky bloody treats that grosses me. These are going into my must-make recipe list
Im so glad you like them. They are the best and make great Halloween treats.
I am all for starting the fall season off with Halloween treats. These brownies look SO good!!
I like your style. These brownies are the best way to start the season off right.
OMG these are just so cute and gorgeous.Perfect for a Halloween party. Looking forward to making these
Im so glad you like it. I love how perfect they are for Halloween.
Yum! I can’t wait to make these brownie bites for Halloween!
Yay! They are going to be a big hit! lol
OMG, these are so adorable! Thank you for giving me such an easy and awesome recipe for my Halloween party <3
You’re so welcome. They will for sure be a big hit!