Freaky Brownies [1]

For the brownies:

5oz. butter

4oz. cocoa

9oz. sugar

½ tsp. salt

½ tsp. vanilla extract

2 eggs

2.5oz. all-purpose flour

For the decorations:

White cake decorating frosting

Candy corn

Gum drops

Toothpicks

1

Preheat the oven to 160°C
2

Generously butter one large muffin tin and then dust each cup with cocoa powder
3

In a saucepan on a very low heat combine the butter, cocoa, sugar and salt until the solids have dissolved and the liquid has melted
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Allow the liquid to cool and add the eggs one at a time, and then the vanilla extract
5

Stir the mixture well, until everything is smooth than stir in the flour, and then continue stirring for a full minute until everything is quite smooth
6

Spoon the recipe into the muffin tins until they are a quarter full
7

Bake the brownies
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This is the tricky part....
9

Start checking after 12 minutes, you want a toothpick inserted on the center to come out with a little bit of batter stuck to it
10

If you have too much batter and it is undercooked and too little, and the brownies will be dry
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When the brownies are done, remove from the oven and cool completely
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For the frosting:
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Lay out your decorations, and create your creatures
14

Use the frosting as glue and make faces with the candy.

Cooks Note

You can even create a tombstone like effect if you wish using slabs of chocolate and an icing bag