25 Days of Christmas Baking Day 6: Candy Cane Oreo Brownies

Sometimes in the holidays, you just need a simple and fast recipe that's also creative and good in your repertoire.  So, we have that for you!

A get-rich quick idea for anyone who wants to:  Sell already crushed candy canes.  Crushing candy canes is the worst part of Christmas baking.  Sure you can hammer them, but then the bag breaks and you just get a mess everywhere and no candy canes in the bag.

Until someone sells crushed candy canes, here are a few tips:

1) Don't buy nice candy canes.  Seriously, the cheapest candy canes you can find are the best for crushed candy cane baking.  Expensive candy canes hold together too well. 
2) Buy the little candy canes that come in the itty-bitty bags in a box of a billion.  They're weaker
3) take a handful of the bagged candy canes and drop them on the floor a few times.  This will do the preliminary crushing quite well
4) after dropping them on the floor a few times, empty the chunks into a bowl.  Get a pair of kitchen scissors and cut up the candy canes.  I kid you not.  This is the best way to get crushed candy cane.



Candy Cane Oreo Brownies

Ingredients

1 box of brownie mix (plus its ingredients)
1 package of oreos (if you can find the candy cane ones...I think that would be better.  I used winter oreos)
chocolate drizzle
crushed candy cane

Instructions
1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees
2. Mix brownie batter according to box
3. Dip oreos in brownie batter and put them in the bottom of cupcake tins
4. bake for 12-15 minutes
5. allow brownie oreos to cool.
6.  frost with the melted chocolate and top with crushed candy canes

Comments

Amy R said…
I would say that your candy canes aren't crushed, they are just broken. I use the "candy canes in a zipper-bag and hammer them" method. I've never had the bag break; it just gets pin holes. That being said, as you know, I'm not a big fan of Oreos, so I will probably use my crushed candy canes for a different recipe. This one looks interesting, though.
December 6, 2014 at 9:00 AM
Amy R said…
This recipe looks like one I might try.
http://www.recipegirl.com/2008/08/10/peppermint-sugar-cookies/
December 6, 2014 at 9:03 AM
p said…
Thank you for pictures
December 6, 2014 at 12:57 PM
p said…
Thank you for pictures
December 6, 2014 at 12:57 PM
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