Halloween Ghost Brownies
Prep Time: 30 minutes
Cook Time: 30 minutes
Serves 9 brownies
Difficulty easy
Ingredients
- ½ C. Crisco® All-Vegetable Shortening, melted and cooled
- 6 Tbsp. cocoa powder
- 1 C. granulated sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 ½ Tbsp. milk
- 1 ½ tsp. Spice Islands® Pure Vanilla Extract
- ½ C. all-purpose flour
- ¼ tsp. Clabber Girl® Baking Powder
- ½ tsp. coarse salt
- ¾ C. peanut butter or butterscotch chips, optional
- 9 regular sized marshmallows
- 1 C. white chocolate chips
- 2 tsp. Crisco® All-Vegetable Shortening
- Black writing gel
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350°F and spray an 8×8-inch baking pan with Baker’s Joy® Nonstick Spray with Flour (or line the bottom and sides, overlapping, with parchment paper); set aside.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together the melted shortening, cocoa powder, sugar, eggs, milk and vanilla until well blended and smooth.
- In a small bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder and salt.
- Add the flour mixture to the cocoa mixture and stir in until fully incorporated.
- Stir in the chips, if using.
- Pour batter into the prepared pan and bake for 25-30 minutes.
- Remove from the oven and allow to cool for 10 minutes.
- Remove the brownies from the pan by inverting it onto a cutting board or lifting them out with the parchment paper.
- Cut into 9 squares.
- Top each square with a marshmallow.
- In a microwave-safe bowl, heat the white chocolate and shortening in 30 second increments, stirring each time, until melted and blended (do not overheat).
- Top each square with a marshmallow.
- Slowly pour the white chocolate mixture over each of the marshmallows, allowing it to run down the sides, covering the entire marshmallow.
- Allow to dry (you can refrigerate the brownies to speed up the cooling), then add faces with writing gel.