Halloween Brownies (Easy Video Recipe)

Prepare these Halloween brownies with easy instructions and simple ingredients. Decorate them for your Halloween-themed party or for impressing the kids that come trick and treating. I also made a little video tutorial for you, loves!

Halloween is certainly one of our favorite holidays as it involves costumes, interesting cooking, and lots of decorations. This gives me the chance to try new fun recipes with crazy decorations and even involve my kids in the process. This spooky Halloween brownies recipe is the case, too! You can see how they surely inherited the talent from their father. ;)

Making the Perfect Brownies for You

Yeah, this will always be an interesting topic to bring out between cooks. I don’t have the same taste in brownies as none of my friends. That’s quite funny considering they love almost every dish I make, but this is surely not the case.

So, one of my best friends, that is an extraordinary cook and mother of three pairs of gorgeous blue eyes, is a fan of fudgy brownies. My hubby, another cook I adore (one of the reasons I made him my husband), would eat only chewy brownies! Insane… they are all mad!

For this spooky Halloween brownies recipe, I prepared my favorite dough – a cakey still dense. In addition, the icing gives it a certain moist even my hubby admires!

How to Make Fudgy Brownies?

If you want to make fudgy brownies you have to use a higher fat-to-flour ratio than you usually use to make cakey ones. So, add more fat (butter, oil, or chocolate). Fudgy brownies should be moist, dense, and gooey, with almost the texture of fudge, however, not quite as compact.

Also, keep in mind that, the amount of sugar and eggs does not change whether you’re going fudgy or cakey when you prepare your Halloween brownies.

How Do You Make Cakey Brownies?

A cakey dough for brownies has more flour and relies on baking powder for leavening. Cakey brownies should be as the name implies, light, moist and airy, with a slightly fluffy, cake-like interior. So, if you want to have a fluffy brownie perfect for a light dessert, you should remember to add baking powder and use more flour.

What Makes a Brownie Chewy?

The secret to making chewy brownies is the addition of canola oil. Canola (Brassica napus L.) is an oilseed crop created in Canada by crossbreeding the rapeseed plant. The name “canola” comes from “Canada” and “ola,” denoting oil.

Also, these brownies have about double the amount of butter (if you don’t use canola oil), flour, and sugar than the cakey brownies. This provides richness and a gooey structure in the brownie. The chewy brownie has an additional egg and a little more flour than the fudgy brownies, which gives it a more “bite”.

Spooky Halloween Brownies Recipe

If you’re looking for a good-looking Halloween dessert idea to impress the family that is both spooky and quick to make then these Halloween brownies are the answer for you. So, let’s find out what ingredients we need and the easy steps we should follow.

Last but not least, don’t forget to enjoy your cup of coffee while preparing the recipe. It should be a nice, relaxing holiday moment!

What You Need To Make Halloween Brownies

Here is the ingredient list for making the brownies:

• 2 sticks unsalted butter (room temperature);
• 1/4 cup unbleached all-purpose flour;
• 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt;
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar;
• 1/2 cup light brown sugar;
• 1 cup unsweetened cocoa powder;
• 5 eggs (room temperature);
• 2 teaspoon vanilla extract;
• 1 teaspoon baking powder;
• Candy eyeballs (or white chocolate pieces if you can’t find decorations).

Also, these are the ingredients you need for preparing the icing:

• 2 cups confectioners’ sugar;
• 1/2 cup cream cheese;
• 1/4 cup water.

Easy Step-by-Step Recipe for Halloween Brownies

Now that you know exactly what you need for this spooky brownies recipe, it is time to start the cooking process. You don’t have to worry about the difficulty level, as it is actually one of the easiest dessert recipes I have ever prepared.

1. Preheat the oven to 325 degrees and prepare your baking pan. You can either use baking paper and some nonstick spray (as I did) or make things in a good classic way: using butter and flour. In addition, I recommend using a 9-by-13-inch baking dish.
2. Whisk together flour and salt.

3. Next, melt the butter and add both sugars; whisk to combine.

4. Whisk in cocoa powder. When it comes to this step, I start mixing with a hand mixer on low power as I find it hard to wisk. However, you can do as you please.

5. Add eggs, one at a time, and whisk until well combined and glossy. Then, mix in vanilla.
6. Finally, add the flour mixture and stir until just combined (do not overmix). 

7. Pour batter into prepared pan and bake until top is crackly (about 30 minutes). Also, a tester inserted into the center should come out clean. Let them cool for 30 minutes, then lift and cut the brownies.

8. While brownies are cooling, beat confectioners’ sugar, cream cheese, and water with a mixer on low speed until fluffy but dense, 7 to 8 minutes. Transfer icing to a piping bag. 
9. Now, just decorate with spider webs and mummies. Let the kids help, they will be thrilled!

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Prepare these Halloween brownies with easy instructions and simple ingredients. Decorate them for your Halloween-themed party or for impressing the kids that come trick and treating.

• Total Time: 1 hour 30 minutes
• Yield: 10 1x

Ingredients

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Brownies

• 2 sticks unsalted butter
• 1/4 cup flour
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• 1/2 cup light brown sugar
• 1 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• 5 eggs
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
• chocolate pieces or candy eyeballs for decorating

Icing

• 2 cup confectionary’ sugar
• 1/2 cup cream cheese
• 1/4 cup water

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Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 325 degrees and prepare your baking pan. You can either use baking paper and some nonstick spray (as I did) or make things in a good classic way: using butter and flour. In addition, I recommend using a 9-by-13-inch baking dish.
2. Whisk together flour and salt.
3. Next, melt the butter and add both sugars; whisk to combine.
4. Whisk in cocoa powder. When it comes to this step, I start mixing with a hand mixer on low power as I find it hard to wisk. However, you can do as you please.
5. Add eggs, one at a time, and whisk until well combined and glossy. Then, mix in vanilla.
6. Finally, add the flour mixture and stir until just combined (do not overmix).
7. Pour batter into prepared pan and bake until top is crackly (about 30 minutes). Also, a tester inserted into the center should come out clean. Let them cool for 30 minutes, then lift and cut the brownies.
8. While brownies are cooling, beat confectioners’ sugar, cream cheese, and water with a mixer on low speed until fluffy but dense, 7 to 8 minutes. Transfer icing to a piping bag.
9. Now, just decorate with spider webs and mummies. Let the kids help, they will be thrilled!

• Author: Rosie
• Prep Time: 60
• Cook Time: 30
• Category: Dessert
• Cuisine: American

Enjoy Your Spooky Halloween Brownies!

Finally, it’s time for you to share your experience with these haunted Halloween brownies with us. So, tell me everything about the recipe in the comments section below. How was your final result? Did you succeed in preparing cakey still moist brownies? Have you encountered any problems while decorating or did you let your kids be creative? Share everything, we are all here to help you! 

In addition, I really wanted to let you know that I’m here for all your further questions about the Halloween brownies recipe, the kitchen in general, and everything else I can help with. Please let me know your curiosities and dilemmas in the comment section below. I always make time to take a look at that section and answer all my loves’ questions.

Last but not least, I’ll let you some extra recipes perfect for your Halloween dinner: