PRETZEL, CHOCOLATE CHIP AND PEANUT BUTTER TRUFFLE BROWNIES
 
 
Ingredients
  • FOR THE HOMEMADE PEANUT BUTTER CUP TRUFFLES
  • ½ cup peanut butter (140g, 5 oz)
  • 30g unsalted butter (1 oz)
  • 2 tbsp brown sugar
  • pinch salt
  • ½ cup + 2 tbsp icing sugar, sifted
  • FOR THE BROWNIES
  • 225g unsalted butter (1 cup)
  • 1¾ cups sugar
  • 1 cup + 2 tbsp cocoa
  • 100g dark chocolate chips (1/2 cup)
  • 1 tsp salt, plus extra for sprinkling
  • ½ tsp vanilla
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 egg yolk
  • ¾ cup plain flour
  • 1 cup milk chocolate chips
  • 1 cup pretzels
Method
  1. To make he peanut butter truffles, combine the peanut butter, unsalted butter and brown sugar in a small saucepan. Stir until bubbles begin to appear. Remove from the heat.
  2. Add the icing sugar a couple of tablespoons at a time, stirring well between each addition.
  3. Drop small teaspoons of the peanut butter filling onto a tray lined with baking paper. Put in the freezer while you make the brownies.
  4. To make the brownies, preheat the oven to 170 C (325 F) and grease and line a 9 x 13 inch pan with baking paper.
  5. Put the unsalted butter, sugar, cocoa, dark chocolate chips, salt and vanilla in a heatproof bowl and place it over a pot of simmering water. Do not let the bowl touch the water.
  6. Stir every so often, until the butter is melted and the mixture combined.
  7. Remove the bowl from the heat. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well with a wooden spoon or spatula between each addition.
  8. Add the flour and mix it in until it clears, then beat the mixture vigorously for 40 strokes.
  9. Mix in the pretzels, milk chocolate chips and peanut butter truffles until everything is evenly dispersed.
  10. Press the mixture into the baking tray and smooth out the top. Sprinkle lightly with coarse sea salt.
  11. Bake for 20 – 25 minutes, until the center is set and a toothpick inserted has moist crumbs. Makes 24 brownies.
  12. Happy baking!
Recipe by Butter Baking at https://www.butterbaking.com/2012/08/30/chocolate-pretzel-and-peanut-butter-truffle-brownies/