Chocolate Mini Egg Brownies

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These Chocolate Mini Egg Brownies are delicious, fudgy, intense chocolate squares with a hint of salt, loaded and topped with delicious, crunchy chocolate mini eggs. Soft and gooey brownies on the inside, slightly crispy on the outside. How do you like your brownies?

Similar brownie recipes, finished with mini Easter eggs, are all over the internet at the moment. And there is good reason for that. They are incredibly delicious, moreish brownies and the mini eggs add a wonderful texture contrast, as well as a pretty splash of colour. I have been making this version for years and it would seem wrong not to post my Easter Daffodil Brownies recipe.

How to make Chocolate Mini Egg Brownies

This recipe is adapted from my Daffodil Brownies – Core Recipe. For further brownie ideas and inspiration, see here.

Collect all your ingredients together and line the baking tin:

In order to guarantee soft and fudgy brownies, it is important to use the correct size tin – in this case it is a 20cm/8inch square tin. If your tin is larger, the depth of your cake batter will be less and the cake will cook more quickly. Equally, if the tin is smaller, your cake batter will be deeper and cook more slowly.

1. Sit the tin on greaseproof paper, making sure the paper is large enough to line the tin, come up the sides and have a little overhang.
2. Cut out the corners of the paper so it will fit easily into the tin
3. Fold the paper from corner to corner so the size of the centre of the paper matches the base of the tin. Slot inside the tin.

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Brownie Ingredients:

• unsalted butter, in cubes
• dark chocolate, 70% cocoa solids, broken into pieces
• soft brown sugar
• caster sugar
• eggs
• fine salt
• plain/all-purpose flour, sieved
• unsweetened cocoa, sieved
• instant coffee powder, sieved
• chocolate mini eggs. I use Cadbury’s
• milk chocolate. I use Cadburys

Make those brownies:

1. Chop the butter into squares and place in a microwave safe bowl with the chopped chocolate. Melt in a microwave or a bain marie and mix until smooth. (See Recipe Notes for details.)
2. Meanwhile put the sugars, eggs and salt in a mixing bowl and whisk with an electric whisk until thick and creamy. This will take around 3 minutes.
3. Pour the chocolate and butter into the eggs and sugar, whilst whisking, and mix thoroughly with the electric whisk until smooth and glossy.
4. Put a sieve over the bowl and add the flour, cocoa and coffee.
5. Sift directly over the cake batter.
6. Fold until nearly mixed in.
7. Put ⅓ of the mini eggs in a bag and bash lightly with a rolling pin, or a meat mallet, to lightly crush.
8. Add to the brownie mix and fold in.
9. Transfer to your lined baking tin and level the surface, making sure the cake batter goes all the way into the corners.
10. Bash another ⅓ mini eggs in a bag and scatter evenly over the brownie batter. Press into the batter with the back of a spoon.
11. Bake in the centre of the pre-heated oven for 20 – 25 minutes, depending on how squidgy you like the centre to be. (I cook mine for 23 minutes in London and 24 minutes in Switzerland.) This gives me a slightly crispy top but a gorgeous gooey centre. The cake will be slightly risen and cracked around the edges (see the pictures below) but the centre will feel quite soft. Remember the cake will continue to cook after you have taken it out of the oven. 
12. Leave to cool in the tin for 20 – 30 minutes and then transfer, in the baking parchment, to a cooling rack.
13. Break the milk chocolate into pieces or grind in a food processor and then melt the milk chocolate in the microwave. (See Recipe Notes for details.)
14. Use a spoon to drizzle or spread over the top of the brownies.
15. Bash the remaining ⅓ mini eggs in a bag and scatter evenly over the melted chocolate. Press into the chocolate and set aside to set.
16. When the brownies are cold, lay on a chopping board and cut into 16; they are rich and this size is big enough for me. If you want more, just grab another one!  However, you could also cut them into 9 squares, if you prefer.

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What is the best way to store brownies?

When you store brownies, it is important to cover them. They keep well for up to 3 days at room temperature or up to 5 days in the fridge. However, if you are storing them in the fridge, remember to take them out to warm up to room temperature before you serve them.

What is the best way to warm brownies?

I adore warm brownies for dessert, served with ice cream. If you have made the brownies in advance and want to warm them up, simply zap each brownie in the microwave for 10 – 20 seconds. The time it takes will depend on the temperature of the brownies to start with (ie have they been in the fridge or not?), the power of the microwave and how hot you actually want them. I like mine warm, but not too hot. I recommend heating them in 10 second increments until you are happy with the heat.

If you do not have a microwave, you could warm them in the oven. Cover with foil and place them in an oven preheated to fan oven 150°C/170°C/325°F/Gas 3 for 1 – 3 minutes. (Depending on how many you are heating and how hot you want them.) Check them after 1 minute and be careful not to overheat, as you may over cook them.

Can I freeze these brownies?

Yes you can! These brownies freeze well, covered, for up to 3 months.

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