Spooky spiders web brownies
Recipe from Wickedly Welsh Chocolate
Get ready to delight your Halloween guests with these Spooky Spider Web Brownies! Perfectly rich and fudgy, these brownies are topped with a creepy, crawly spider web design. Easy to make and serving 12, they’re the ultimate treat to add a touch of frightful fun to your festive celebrations.
Serves 12
Ingredients
- 200g caster sugar
- 200g softened butter
- 50g cocoa powder
- 3 medium eggs (beaten)
- 150g self-raising flour
- 1tsp vanilla extract
- 200g Devilishly Dark chocolate
- Pinch of sea salt
Decoration
- 10 marshmallows
- 40g white fondant icing
- Black food colouring or a black icing pen
Method
- Preheat the oven to 180C and grease a 20cm baking dish.
- Chop the Devilish Dark chocolate into chunks and separate into two halves. In the microwave melt one half of the chocolate chunks for 20-second intervals, stirring between each round, making sure not to burn the chocolate. Continue until melted.
- Add butter and sugar to a bowl and mix until smooth. Slowly combine the beaten eggs and vanilla extract into the mixture.
- Incorporate the slightly cooled melted chocolate and whisk. Ensure the chocolate is not too hot when adding as this will start cooking the eggs.
- Sift in the cocoa powder and flour. Add a pinch of salt and fold all ingredients together.
- Sprinkle in the rest of the chocolate chunks and stir.
- Spoon the brownie batter into the greased dish and pop in the oven to bake for approximately 20 minutes. Once baked, allow to cool.
- Meanwhile, it’s time to prepare the spooky decorations!
- Add a spoonful of butter to a pan and heat over a low to medium heat. Add the marshmallows into the pan and stir regularly until melted.
- Let the melted marshmallow cool slightly before pinching some of the mixture between your fingers to create strands. Drape over the cooled brownies to create a spider web-like pattern.
- Separate approximately 15g of fondant from the rest and add in drops of black food colouring until fully black.
- Using the remaining white fondant, roll 24 small balls of icing and flatten to disks to start creating the spooky eyes. Repeat the process with the black fondant, but this time creating disk shapes that are half the size – these will be the pupils.
- Assemble the eyes by placing the black pupils onto the white disks and arrange evenly over the cooled brownies.
- Slice the brownie into even pieces and serve to your Halloween guests!
