How To Make Chocolate Covered Pretzel Peanut Butter Brownies
These peanut butter brownies make luscious baked treats! They’re topped with peanut butter frosting and chocolatey pretzels with a rich and fudgy base.
Serves:
Ingredients
Brownies:
- ½cupsalted butter,(1 stick)
- 8ozsemi-sweet chocolate,coarsely chopped
- 1¼cupsgranulated sugar
- 3large eggs
- 1tsppure vanilla extract
- ¾cupall-purpose flour,spoon and leveled
- ¼tspsalt
For Peanut Butter Frosting:
- ½cupsalted butter,1 stick, softened to room temperature
- 1cupcreamy peanut butter
- 2cupsconfectioners’ sugar
For Chocolate Covered Pretzels:
- 25mini pretzel twists
- 2ozsemi-sweet chocolate bar
Instructions
Chocolate Covered Pretzels:
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In a medium bowl, break up and melt the baking chocolate in the microwave for 30 seconds. Stir. Continue microwaving in 10 seconds intervals until completely melted.
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Toss the pretzels into the melted chocolate and stir around until they are mostly coated. Chill the pretzels while you make the brownies.
Brownies:
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Spray 11×7-inch baking pan with cooking spray. Set aside.
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Melt butter and semi-sweet chocolate in a medium saucepan on medium heat, stirring constantly for about 6 minutes. Remove from heat and let cool to room temperature for about 15 minutes.
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Stir sugar into cooled chocolate and butter mixture until combined. Add in the eggs one at a time, whisking until smooth after each addition. Whisk in the vanilla. Gently fold in the flour and salt.
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Pour batter into prepared pan, smoothing the top with a knife. Bake for approximately 35 minutes, until a toothpick comes out almost clean. Cool for about 1 hour.
Peanut Butter Frosting:
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Using an electric handheld or stand mixer, cream the butter and peanut butter on medium speed until completely smooth and no more chunks of butter are visible.
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Slowly mix in confectioners’ sugar to peanut butter mixture, starting with just 1 cup. Add more confectioners’ sugar if needed until a very thick frosting is formed.
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Frost brownies with peanut butter frosting. Chop up your chocolate covered pretzels and layer them on top of the frosting, gently pressing them down so that they stick.
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Refrigerate brownies for about 30 to 60 minutes until the frosting “sets” on top of the brownies.
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Cut into squares and enjoy.
Nutrition
- Calories: 252.54kcal
- Fat: 14.04g
- Saturated Fat: 6.63g
- Trans Fat: 0.26g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 4.99g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 1.57g
- Carbohydrates: 30.73g
- Fiber: 1.24g
- Sugar: 22.35g
- Protein: 3.82g
- Cholesterol: 34.87mg
- Sodium: 128.40mg
- Calcium: 13.86mg
- Potassium: 106.23mg
- Iron: 0.92mg
- Vitamin A: 59.76µg
- Vitamin C: 0.10mg
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