Best Recipes: Holiday Mint Brownies

 by: Donna Monday

It’s Christmas time and everything is getting the decorative treatment: including brownies.

This simple recipe for Holiday Mint Brownies is a fun way to turn ordinary brownies into an extraordinary festive treat. The flavors are wonderful with chocolate mint chips and cream cheese frosting. Plus, you can have fun decorating them with decorating gel and candies.

Best of all, these brownies are an easy holiday cookie recipe to make. Any brownie lover will enjoy these special holiday brownies.

Holiday Mint Brownies

• 1 1-pound 5 oz pkg fudge brownie mix

• ½ cup mint flavored chocolate chips

• ½ cup water

• ½ cup oil

• 1 egg

• 1 16 oz can cream cheese frosting (or vanilla frosting)

• 5 (.68 oz) tubes green decorating gel

• 1 to 2 tablespoons (84) cinnamon candies or small red decorator candies

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Line a 13x9-inch pan with foil so edges extend over pan; grease bottom only of foil.

In large bowl, combine brownie mix, chocolate chips, water, oil and egg; beat 50 strokes with spoon. DO NOT UNDERMIX. Spread in greased foil-lined pan.

Bake for 31-33 minutes. Cool 1 hour or until completely cooled.

Frost brownies. Freeze 1 hour.

Remove brownies from pan by lifting foil; peel off foil. Cut brownies into squares or cut diagonally into diamond shapes.

Outline each brownie with green decorating gel. Place 3 red candies in the corner or middle of each brownie. Store in a single layer in covered container, in a cool place.

Makes 28 brownies.