Chocolate brownies so easy to make the hardest part is not “over-sampling” the After Eights before you put them in the mix!
First a note on After Eights. As these are made by Nestle, I’m hoping they’re available outside of UK. If not, I’m hoping you can find a substitute. They’re after dinner mints: thin dark chocolate squares with a layer of mint fondant inside. They cook beautifully inside the brownie and give a subtle, not overpowering mint flavour to the chocolate brownies. This is what they look like:
Ingredients
- 180 g butter/margarine
- 180 g dark chocolate
- 3 large eggs
- 250 g caster sugar
- 110 g plain flour
- 300 g box of After Eights
Method (makes 16 – 20 brownies)
- Preheat the oven to 160 degrees C.
- Line your brownie pan or baking tray with baking paper. My tin measures 24 x 20 x 4 cm.
- Melt the butter and chocolate together in a bowl. You can do this over a pan of hot water or you can cheat, like me, and use the microwave to give the mixture short zaps then stir in between zaps.
- Beat the eggs together with the sugar in another bowl.
- Let the butter and chocolate mix cool a little before adding the eggs and sugar. Add the flour. Beat the mixture until smooth.
- Pour a third of the mixture into the tin. Use the After Eights to create a chocolate layer. I used whole After Eights. Cover this layer with the second third of the mixture. Lay down another layer of After Eights – this time I used broken up After Eights. Pour the rest of the mixture into the tin. The following pictures probably explain this better:
Bake for 3o-35 minutes. Brownies should be moist, so a knife stuck into the middle of the pan should come out with a little mixture stuck to it. But it shouldn’t be totally liquid! After 30 minutes I turned my oven off and left the brownies in there another 10 minutes. Then, when I took them out of the oven, I left them to cool completely in the tin.
I cut this slab of chocolatey goodness into 16 brownies, but how many you get depends on how large you like your brownies 🙂
That’s it! Enjoy on their own or warm with ice cream. Mmmmmm…
Other recipes
If you’re a fan of mint chocolate, you might also like to check out my recipe for mint chocolate muffins. Or, if you like your chocolate unadulterated, take a look at my chocolate fudge cake recipe.
Those look absolutely delicious! Excuse me, I’m drooling right now. 😉
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Thank you! They turned out better than I’d hoped because I was worried they’d be too minty. In the end the choc/mint balance is spot on 🙂
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They look perfect and I love anything minty. 😀
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Oooooh yummy!
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Thank you! They were another experiment which turned out better than I hoped. I was worried they’d be too minty. But in the end the mix of chocolate and mint is just right. 🙂
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Ooh these look delicious! I love the chocolate and mint combination. 🙂
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Me too 🙂 I’m not a fan of dark chocolate, but when it’s with mint, it’s perfect…mmmm…
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Oh my goodness, After Eights are my favourite! I always associate them with x-mas because we buy some for my dad. (And eat most of them, ha ha!) I’m going to have to try this recipe soon. 🙂
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I love them. I’m glad to hear they’re widely available 🙂 I haven’t had a chance to try these warm with vanilla ice cream yet but I will because I think that will be perfect!
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Oh my gosh, vanilla ice cream would be perfect! You’re going to laugh but I had a dream last night that I baked them, ha ha. Tomorrow I think I’m going to have to make it a reality. 😉
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I would love to have dreams involving baking! 🙂 If you do make them, I hope it goes well.
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I know! I wish I dreamt about baking much more often than I do. 😉 I worked out the conversions today, so I hope to bake them up this week. I’ll share a pic when I do!
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Yum 🙂
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They’ve all gone. I had to bake another cake today to refill the tin! 🙂
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These look so good! I love After Eights and never thought to add them to brownies:-)
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They worked surprisingly well. Possibly because they’re quite chewy/gooey and that’s just right for brownies 🙂
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All I have to say is yumm yumm yumm! My favorite flavors yumm
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I have to think of something different to do this week. I could stick with chocolate and mint for ages 🙂
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yumm me too!
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Damn, these brownies look so delicious! Now I am craving chocolate 😀
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They were an experiment but they turned out delicious! 🙂
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How can you not oversample the After Eights… those things are lethal 🙂
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It was hard. I had to bury them under the brownie mixture quickly! If you open a box, you’re in trouble 🙂
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I know. My jeans keep telling me I should never have bought them at Christmas 😉
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You should open a Delicatessen & Coffee Shop, you have created a lot of amazing recipes !!
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I would love to! It would be a bookshop too. When I win the lottery… 🙂
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With English & Spanish books !! You have to dream big and perhaps your dream you will a reality… Without winning the lottery 😉
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Yum. Chocolate mint. Does it get better than that?
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