Marshmallow Brownies

What a fantastic weekend!  I had such a great time visiting my family in Canada and am absolutely stuffed from all the delicious food.  For the past few years it’s been a tradition to bring up food to share with each other throughout the course of the weekend.  Wanting to participate, I decided to bring up Marshmallow Brownies and Monkey Bars (recipe to come this week!).  I had seen First Look, Then Cook‘s Marshmallow Brownies a few weeks back and knew these would be the perfect sweet treat to bring to the reunion – chocolate and marshmallow?? How could you go wrong!?!  The original recipe adds a chocolate glaze over the top layer of marshmallows – I had to forgo this step because I didn’t have confectioners sugar on hand.  No matter; to decorate I added sifted cocoa powder and mini chocolate chips – still pretty cute and absolutely delicious!  These were a big hit on the dessert table; I’m pretty sure my little brother ate about 15 .

Ingredients:

• 1 cup butter, melted
• 2 cups sugar
• 1/4 cup cocoa powder
• 4 eggs
• 2 teaspoons vanilla
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/2 cups flour
• 2 1/2 cups mini marshmallows
• 1 tablespoon cocoa powder & mini chocolate chips for decoration

Directions:

1. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees and grease a 9×13 baking pan.
2. In a medium bowl, whisk together the melted butter, sugar, cocoa, eggs, vanilla and salt.  Slowly add in the flour and mix with a wooden spoon, just until combined (don’t over mix!) 
3. Pour batter into the baking pan and bake for 25 minutes. 
4. Remove from the oven and immediately top with the marshmallows.  Return to the oven and bake for 2 more minutes.  With a knife, spread the melted marshmallows into an even layer (it helps if you regularly run the knife under hot water). 
5. Cool completely and cut into squares (running your knife under hot water should make cutting easier).
6. To decorate, lightly sift cocoa powder over the tops of the brownies & dot with a mini chocolate chip.

Bon appetit!

Full recap of the reunion and Monkey Bars recipe coming this week .

-Christina