Chocolate Milk & Brownie Bites

New favorite snack: Wild Squirrel Curious Cocoa-Nut and cereal.

This nut butter is great on top of anything, but especially Kashi Heart to Heart with almond milk.

Cereal is a snack food to me, not a breakfast food, since it normally only carries me for about 2 hours.

Not very filling, but the perfect mid-day fuel!

 

This delicious cereal snacker fueled me through the creation of all of these cute little Chocolate Mint Brownie Bites!

I made them for a fun Oscars party that I was supposed to attend last night, but I have been fighting cold symptoms for about a week now and they were literally trying to kill me yesterday.

Headache, stuffy nose, coughing, sneezing, achiness, the works. Not fun.

So I sent them with my sister, who attended the party, so they could still be enjoyed without my hacking in the background.

Leetle bitty bite-sized brownies. Almost too cute to eat.

I had some leftover batter that I baked into full-sized brownie cups.

Go big or go home.

Or just eat mini-sized things because mini is cool too :)

I also have a large jar of sprinkles that I bought for ME TO EAT WITH SPOON a funfetti cake that I made a while back. They keep making their way into my baked goods and ice cream bowls (as you may have noticed), and I am glad. 

I mean, how can you not smile when you're putting sprinkles on things? Impossible.

Make these cuties and tell me who you think was the cutest at the Oscars!

Emma Stone gets my vote. Obsessed.

 

Chocolate Mint Brownie Bites

(makes 24 mini cups and 12 full-sized muffin cups)

Ingredients:

• 3 cups sugar
• 2 sticks butter, melted and cooled
• 4 eggs, at room temp
• 1 Tbsp vanilla extract
• 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
• 1 cup cocoa powder
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 tsp espresso powder
• 1/2 cup dark chocolate chips
• 1 cup Andes mint chips
• Sprinkles, for topping (optional)

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Line 1 24-cup mini muffin tin and 1 12-cup muffin tin with cupcake liners.
3. In a large bowl, mix together sugar and butter until combined.
4. Mix in eggs on at a time.
5. Stir in vanilla extract.
6. In a separate bowl, sift together flour, cocoa powder, and salt.
7. Mix flour mixture into butter mixture until barely combined.
8. Fold in chocolate chips and mint chips.
9. Divide evenly among muffin cups.
10. Sprinkle the tops of batter cups with sprinkles (optional).
11. Bake mini cups at 350 for 10-15 minutes. Bake full-sized cups for about 20-25 minutes.
12. Let brownies cool for 10 minutes before removing from pan.

ENJOY!