Also known as… Late night snack brownies. Ultimate midnight craving brownies. Junk(food)-in-the-trunk brownies. Call them what you will, these brownies are pure, trashy, perfection.
I’m here today with this trashed-up recipe to celebrate the amazingly talented Jessica, in the only way that ‘invisible’ internet friends do: with a virtual baby shower! And I figured since we were celebrating the baby-baby already, why not celebrate and share the love for her book-baby as well? Because writing a book is often compared to the act of labor, requiring nearly as much blood, sweat, and tears to bring into this world. Although maybe slightly less spit-up in the end. I have to say that her book, Seriously Delish, is a must buy, and I don’t say that often about cookbooks. It’s a rare book that I find myself turning to again and again, and this is one of them. It is, to put it bluntly, seriously. delish. Which brings me to this recipe, which I adapted from her already trashy peanut butter lover’s brownie recipe to better fulfill the intense late-night cravings of pregnancy. Or so I assume, as I’ve never been pregnant, but I’m guessing if I was that potato chips, kettle corn, and peanut butter cups, not to mention brownies, would be constant cravings. Heck, I have constant cravings for them all (separate and/or together) on a regular basis, and I don’t have a bun-in-the-oven to blame for it. So, there’s that.
What you end up with as a chewy, deeply chocolate brownie topped with a soft milk chocolate ganache, piled high with junk food: mini peanut butter cups, sea salt potato chips, and salty/sweet kettle corn, plus an extra drizzle of ganache for good measure. Fine. Let’s be honest with ourselves and just call these why-I-can’t-have-nice-things brownies. Because that’s really what they are. Let’s raise a glass (of milk, I assume, to go with these brownies) to Jessica and Eddie, wishing them all the best with their new baby! Congratulations!
