This Gooey Candy Brownie Cake is an easy brownie baked as cake and filled with candy and topped with a poured chocolate icing. It’s so chocolatey!
I think I need to start a new blog called Crazy for Brownies. I swear, as much as I love pie and crust, I almost love brownies more. Have I ever told you about the chocolate factory in the town I lived in? Somewhere close to where I lived there is a factory where they make chocolate chips and the like. Every once in awhile the air is permeated with a rich chocolate scent that smells like brownies baking. It’s how I imagine the candy room with the chocolate river smelled in Willy Wonka.
That brownie smell is one of the things I miss most about home. I mean, the air that smells like chocolate? For someone like me? That’s pretty much priceless. When I moved away and realized that not all air smells like molten lava, well, that was a sad day.
This brownie recipe epitomizes what I think of when I’m visiting my parents and smell that air: rich, gooey chocolatey brownie drenched in a gooey poured chocolate frosting. Only chocolate lovers need apply for this cake, y’all.
Now, as you know, I have two faithful brownie recipes that I use regularly: one with cocoa and one with melted chocolate. Then a few weeks ago I made the BEST BROWNIES EVER. However much I love those recipes I’m always game for trying a new one and this recipe is going into the favorites pile. It’s rich, fudgy, and super chocolatey!
This brownie recipe melds my favorite two recipes together: it uses cocoa and melted chocolate, and while it doesn’t have as many eggs as my other favorite recipe, there is corn syrup in the batter, which keeps them super moist and fudgy.
As basic brownies this recipe is terrific, but I decided to go one step further. I turned it into a cake by baking it in an 8″ round cake pan. (You can also use a 9″ round if you prefer.) Since Halloween just happened, I’m pretty sure you have bags of candy lying around that you’re trying to get rid of. I filled this cake to the brim with 2 cups of chopped candy. You can use any candy you like, the sky is the limit. Clean out your pantry like I did and fill it up with your favorites! I used peanut butter cups, Snickers, Butterfingers, M&Ms, and even more!
Then, once the brownie cooled I added my favorite part: a poured chocolate frosting. It’s a super easy frosting that starts with chocolate chips, butter, and vanilla and is mixed with boiled cream and more corn syrup. Once it cools it thickens slightly so you can pour it onto your cake and the corn syrup helps it semi-solidify as it cools completely.
I could not stop at once slice of this. Chocoholics – you’re going to be in HEAVEN with this one!
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